Biographies
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Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez is Zapotec from the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Oaxaca, Mexico and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, where she teaches comparative Indigenous politics. Her research interrogates the connections between resource extraction, lands, bodies and consent and explores the contemporary mechanisms and practices through which Indigenous land is accessed. One of her recent books is Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism. Place, Women and the Environment (UBC Press, 2013). Isabel’s email address is isabel@ualberta.ca
Bruce Baum is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His work ranges broadly in critical theory, including Frankfurt School Critical Theory, critical race theory, feminism, cultural studies, and American studies. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity (New York University Press, 2006) and The Post-Liberal Imagination: Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2016). He is currently working on a book project entitled Identities and Indignities: Critical Theory and the Politics of Equality, Identity and Difference. Bruce can be reached at bruce.baum@ubc.ca
Romand Coles is a Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. His scholarship explores the intersections of radical democratic theory, critical theory, and participatory action research on community organizing. His most recent book is Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times (Duke University Press, 2016). Coles and Lia Haro are completing a book on radical democracy in the age of Trump tentatively entitled, This Machine Kills Fascism. He can be reached at romand.coles@acu.edu.au
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins where he teaches political theory. His most recent book, Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming, has been published with Duke. It argues that humanists and human scientists must come to terms with how planetary processes such as the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, climate, and species evolution have periodically gone through rapid changes on their own well before the current epoch. Only after that understanding is intact are we in a position, [End Page 143] first, to examine the current imbrications between extractive capitalism and climate change and, second, to develop cross-regional citizen strategies to cope with this unevenly distributed world crisis. William can be reached at pluma@jhu.edu
Jodi Dean is the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, New York. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke 2009), The Communist Horizon (Verso 2012), and Crowds and Party (Verso 2016). She is also a former editor of Theory & Event. Jodi’s email address is jdean@hws.edu
Thomas Dumm is the author of six books that cover a range of topics in political theory and political culture as well as many articles and other essays. Among his books are Loneliness as a Way of Life (Harvard, 2008) and My Father’s House: On Will Barnet’s Paintings (Duke, 2014). He served as the founding co-editor of the international journal of contemporary political thought Theory & Event, as well as non-fiction editor for the Massachusetts Review. His new book, a meditation on the (im)possibility of being at home in the twenty-first century, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. Thomas may be reached at tldumm@amherst.edu
Michaele Ferguson is co-Editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work spans radical democratic and feminist theory. She is the author of Sharing Democracy (Oxford UP, 2012), and she is completing a book manuscript entitled Taming the Shrew: The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism in America. Michaele can be reached at michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu
Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Gender Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Global Studies Center. He is author of Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization (Routledge 2005) and of Political Theory and the Politics of Injustice (Oxford, forthcoming) and of numerous articles and chapters...
