Contributors
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Megan Alvarado Saggese is a graduate student in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
Antony Anghie is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. His research interests include public and private international law; human rights; globalization, development issues, and international law; terrorism and the use of force; international business transactions and international economic law; colonialism and the history of public international law; and third-world approaches to international law. His books include Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Limits of International Law (2005), The Third World and International Legal Order, coedited with Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson, and Obiora Okafor (2003), and Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry, coedited with Garry Sturgess (1998).
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. She is a Guggenheim fellowship recipient and winner of the Ernst Bloch and Leopold Lucas awards. Her latest publication is Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times (2011).
Pheng Cheah is professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1999. He has published [End Page 249] extensively on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003) and coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (1998). He is also the coeditor of Thinking through the Body of the Law (1996), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003), and Derrida and the Time of the Political (2009). He is completing a book on theories of the world and world literature from the postcolonial world in an age of financial globalization and a related book on globalization and the three Chinas as seen from the perspectives of the independent cinema of Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Fruit Chan.
Jesse Cordes Selbin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Nikita Dhawan is a junior professor of political science for gender/postcolonial studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, the University of Melbourne; Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley; University of La Laguna, Tenerife; Pusan National University, South Korea; Columbia University, New York; and in 2006–2007 she was Maria-Goeppert-Mayer Guest Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. She is the author of Impossible Speech: On the Politics of Silence and Violence (2007) and the editor of Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World (2013).
Didier Fassin is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences and the vice president of Médecins sans frontières. He is currently conducting an ethnography of the state, studying the police, justice, and prison in France. His recent [End Page 250] publications include Contemporary States of Emergency (with M. Pandolfi, 2010) and Moral Anthropology (2012) as editor; and The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with R. Rechtman, 2009), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011), and Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (2013) as author.
Jason Frank is associate professor of government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (2010) and Publius and Political Imagination (2013) and has recently edited A Political Companion to Herman Melville (2013). His research in democratic theory, American political thought, and politics and literature has appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Review of Politics, Modern Intellectual History, and Diacritics, as well as several anthologies.
Claude Lefort (1924–2010) was a French philosopher and political activist. He taught at institutions including the Sorbonne and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His books include Les formes de l’histoire (1978), The Age of...
