Bios
- Bios
Jane Bennett is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Her new book is Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010). For the Spring 2010 term, she will be a fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and working on a study of Walt Whitman and the contemporary British artist Cornelia Parker.
Joshua Foa Dienstag is professor of political science at UCLA. He is the author of Dancing in Chains: Narrative & Memory in Political Theory and Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. He is currently plagiarizing Rousseau's "Letter to D'Alembert" for a book about film.
Margaret Farrar is an associate professor of political science and associate dean of the college at Augustana College. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled The Geography of Memory: Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Democratic Imagination. She can be reached at MargaretFarrar@augustana.edu.
Clarissa Rile Hayward, author of De-Facing Power (Cambridge University Press, 2000), is Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently completing her second book, tentatively titled Stories and Spaces: How Americans Make Race, which focuses on the ways democratic state actors shape political identities through institutions that racialize and privatize urban space. This research has been supported by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Bianca Isaki is teaching media studies and cultural politics in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Hawai`i at Mänoa in Honolulu, Hawai`i. She is currently completing a manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, A Decolonial Archive: Asian Settler Politics in a Time of Hawaiian Nationhood. Please contact her at bisaki@hawaii.edu.
David Kyuman Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Associated Faculty in the Program in American Studies at Connecticut College, where he was also the inaugural director of the College's Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. Since 2009, Kim has served as Senior Advisor at the Social Science Research Council and Editor-at-Large of The Immanent Frame. Kim is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Oxford 2007). Kim's current book project is Future Perfect, Past Conditional: Memory, Tradition, Religion. He is also co-editor, with Philip Gorski and John Torpey, of the forthcoming volume Exploring the Postsecular. You can reach him at dkkim@conncoll.edu
Sankaran Krishna teaches comparative politics and international relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Hawai`i at Manoa in Honolulu. His most recent book titled Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the 21st Century was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2009. He can be reached at krishna@hawaii.edu.
Margaret Kohn is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Toronto. Her primary research interests are in the areas of colonialism, democratic theory, critical theory, and urbanism. She is author of Radical Space: Building the House of the People (Cornell University Press 2003) and Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space (Routledge 2004). She is currently working on a new project entitled Colonial Critique and Postcolonial Power: Political Theory After Empire (with Keally McBride).
Keally McBride is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco where she teaches courses on political theory, globalization, postcolonialism and urban politics. She is interested in tracing connections between the frameworks created by the past, both materially and institutionally, and the exercise of political agency. Hence her seemingly erratic interest in understanding legacies of colonialism and how built environments impact politics today. She has recently finished a book, co-authored with Margaret Kohn: Colonial Critique and Postcolonial Power: Political Theory at the End of Empire which will be published with Oxford University Press in 2011. She can be reached at kdmcbride@usfca.edu.
Patricia Mooney Nickel is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her main research interests include critical social theory, public sociology, social policy, philanthropy and the non-profit sector, the sociology of governance, theories of the state and civil society...
