Biographies
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Alexander W. Diones is a third year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. He can be reached by email at adiones@ucla.edu
Farah Godrej is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi’s political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization, comparative political theory, and environmental political thought. Her research appears in journals such as Political Theory, The Review of Politics, and Polity, and she is the author of Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Her new work explores contemporary re-interpretations of South Asia’s yogic and meditative traditions, particularly their relevance to debates about social justice. Farah can be reached at godrej@ucr.edu
Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Duke University Press, 2012), the editor of Formations of United States Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2014), and the co-editor (with Juliana Hu Pegues and Manu Vimalassery) of “On Colonial Unknowing,” a special issue of Theory & Event (2016) and (with Alex Lubin) of “Settler Colonialism,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (2008). Alyosha’s email address is agoldste@unm.edu
Nina Hagel is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics at Bates College. She is working on a book manuscript on the politics of authenticity. Her work has been published in Theory & Event, and Polity. Nina’s email address is nhagel@bates.edu
Joanna Tice Jen teaches political theory and American government at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. Her scholarship focuses on political theory, American political thought, feminist and queer theory, and religio-political thought. She completed her PhD in 2017 in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, writing a dissertation on 21st Century Evangelicalism as political thought. She is a co-editor and contributor to the collected volume Regimes of Happiness: Comparative and Historical Studies, forthcoming [End Page 1083] from Anthem Press, and the author of “Religion in Contemporary Political Thought” in Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Joanna’s email address is jtice@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Martijn Konings is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His main publications are The Development of American Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Stanford University Press, 2018). With Melinda Cooper, he edits the new Stanford University Press series called Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times. Martijn’s email address is martijn.konings@sydney.edu.au
John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Beloit College, where he teaches classes in political theory and constitutional law. His research engages modern and contemporary political thought, emotion and affect, theories of work and labor, critical theory, and black political thought. Recent publications include “The ‘Enigma of Biopolitics’: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics” (Political Theory, forthcoming) and “Emotional Orientations: Simone de Beauvoir and Sara Ahmed on Subjectivity and the Emotional Phenomenology of Gender” (philoSOPHIA, 2016). He is also a co-host on the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast. His website is https://johnamcmahon.com/
Robert Nichols is Assistant Professor of Political Science and McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is author of The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the politics of historical ontology (Stanford UP, 2014) and numerous articles in political theory, especially pertaining to imperialism, colonialism, and critical theory. Robert’s email address is rbnichol@umn.edu
Juliana Hu Pegues is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of American Indian Studies and the Program for Asian American Studies, and an affiliate faculty and advisory board member for the Race, Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality (RIGS) Initiative. She is the co-editor (with Manu Vimalassery and Alyosha Goldstein) of “On Colonial Unknowing,” a special issue of Theory & Event (2016). Her current book project, Settler Space and...
