Biographies
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Sabeen Ahmed is a Provost's Graduate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where she focuses on social and political philosophy, critical phenomenology, refugee issues, critical race theory, and ancient and medieval philosophy. Sabeen received her BA's in Philosophy and Spanish from the University of Virginia and from 2014–2015 lived in Antalya, Turkey as a Fulbright ETA. Her doctoral dissertation will explore the genealogy of the figure of the 'refugee' as a means of exposing the politically-motivated, racial underpinnings of the codification of 'refugee rights' in international law and its subsequent influence on political ontology. Sabeen's email address is sabeen.ahmed@vanderbilt.edu
Caroline Alphin is currently a PhD candidate in ASPECT-Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought, which is an interdisciplinary program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests include biopolitics, science fiction, genre studies, feminist theory, and critical urban geography. Alphin is also co-editor of SPECTRA (the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives), a peer-reviewed and open-access journal. Caroline's email address is calphin1@vt.edu
Florentina C. Andreescu is an Assistant Professor in International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Combining insights from the study of politics, global economy, and psychoanalysis, her research investigates issues of radical social change, embodiment, social trauma, and identity. She is the author of From Communism to Capitalism: Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and the co-editor, with Michael J. Shapiro, of Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman: Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal (Routledge 2014). Florentina can be reached at andreescuf@uncw.edu; her website is here: https://uncw.edu/int/Andreescu.html
Kevin Arceneaux is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Behavioral Foundations Lab, and Faculty Affiliate in the Institute of Public Affairs, Temple University. He studies political psychology and political communication, focusing on how the interaction between political messages and people's psychological predispositions shapes their political attitudes and behavior. Kevin can be reached at arceneau@temple.edu [End Page 582]
Alyson Cole is a Professor of Political Science, Women & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford University Press), co-editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, and a principal scholar in the "Vulnerable & Dynamic Forms of Life" International Network of Research, an interdisciplinary research collective supported by the National Center for Scientific Research. She also serves as the Executive Officer of the PhD/MA Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center. Alyson's email address is acole@gc.cuny.edu.
Romand Coles is a Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. His scholarship explores the intersections among radical democratic theory, environmental political theory and the sciences, 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). With Lia Haro he is completing a book tentatively entitled, This Machine Kills Fascism: The Poetics of Grassroots Democracy. Romand's email address is Romand.Coles@acu.edu.au
Christopher England is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, where he teaches political theory and international relations. His work focuses on questions of modernity and ideological change. Chris can be reached at cme2@usf.edu
Matthew Flisfeder is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. His current research looks at the relationship between social media platforms and the representation of neoliberal ideology. He also writes about the representation of social media and digital society in popular culture. Flisfeder is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017) and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). He is co-editor with Louis-Paul Willis of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). Matthew's email address is m.flisfeder@uwinnipeg.ca
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