Contributors
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Darcie Fontaine is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida. Her first book, Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (Cambridge University Press, 2016), explores the role of Christianity in the decolonization of Algeria, tracing the transformation of Christianity from its position as the moral foundation of European imperialism to its role as a radical voice of political and social change. Her new projects examine the French Protestant aid organization Cimade's relationship to state power and postcolonial Algeria's relationship with Latin America in the aftermath of independence.
Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti is assistant professor of political science at City College of the City University of New York and associate researcher at the Center for European Studies of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). His first book, Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes (Columbia University Press, 2015), examines the history of the religious discourse of antirelativism in the political thought of the Catholic Church. He is currently working on a second book, titled What Is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Betsy Konefal is associate professor of history at William and Mary, specializing in twentieth-century Latin America and histories of race/ethnicity, indigenous organizing, human rights, and oppositional politics. Her first book, For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960–1990 (University of New Mexico Press, 2010), examines questions of ethnicity in Guatemala's long and ultimately genocidal armed conflict, and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently working on a study of liberation theology and highland organizing in Guatemala.
Emma Stone Mackinnon is a junior research fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. She received a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 2017. Her contribution to Humanity is part of a larger book project on the legacies of the French and American rights declarations in the mid-twentieth-century politics of race and empire.
Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. He is the author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question, and Desiring Arabs, which won the Lionel Trilling Book Award. His most recent book is Islam in Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2015). This essay is a shortened version of a chapter in his forthcoming book tentatively titled "Dead Ends: Independence, Self-Determination, and Liberation."
Eva-Maria Muschik is a lecturer at the Center for Global History at Freie Universität Berlin. She received her doctorate in history from New York University. Her research has focused on international organizations, decolonization, and development.
