Contributors

Drucilla Cornell is a professor of political science, women's studies, and comparative literature at Rutgers University as well as a playwright. She launched the uBuntu Project in South Africa in 2003 and has been working with the project ever since. Cornell's theoretical and political writings cover a broad range of topics and disciplines. From her early work in critical legal studies and feminist theory to her more recent work on South Africa, transitional justice, and the jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, Cornell continues to think through new and evolving issues in philosophy and politics of global significance. Her most recent book, coauthored with Stephen Seely, is The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (Polity, 2016).

Jane Anna Gordon teaches at the University of Connecticut. Among other books, she has written Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham University Press, 2014). Gordon has coedited, with Neil Roberts, Creolizing Rousseau (Rowman & Little-field International, 2015) and, with Lewis R. Gordon, Aaron Kamugisha, and Neil Roberts, Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She is president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and is currently completing a manuscript titled "When Women Do Political Theory."

Lewis R. Gordon is a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut; a writer-in-residence at the Birkbeck School of Law; the European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France; and an honorary professor at the Unit of the Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa. He also is the drummer for the rock band ThreeGenerations. Gordon's most recent books include What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader, with Jane Anna Gordon, Aaron Kamugisha, and Neil Roberts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); and La sud prin nord-vest: Reflecţii existenţiale afrodiasporice (IDEA Design & Print, 2016).

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is a London-based Colombian author, art critic, and philosopher. He is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Story of a Death Foretold (Bloomsbury, 2013). Guardiola-Rivera writes widely for the media, including occasional columns for The Guardian and a weekly column for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador, and also contributes to television and radio programs for Monocle and Telesur English, among others. He is a lecturer in philosophy and law at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Kojo Koram is a lecturer in law and a PhD candidate at the Birk-beck School of Law, University of London. His thesis examines the history of the laws on controlled drugs and their relationship to legacies of empire. Previously, Koram served as a legal adviser for Release, the United Kingdom's center of expertise in drug law. He has been called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple.

Michael Anthony Turcios is a PhD student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. His research explores the representation of urban cultural works that address migration, militarization, "third" borders, and displacement in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France.