About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Jafari S. Allen is the director of Africana Studies and the Miami Initiative on Intersectional Social Justice, as well as an associate professor of anthropology, at the University of Miami. Allen's scholarship and teaching has opened new lines of inquiry and offered reinvigorated methods of narrative theorizing in anthropology, Black diaspora studies, and feminist and queer studies. His new book—There's a Disco Ball between Us: An Ethnography of an Idea—will appear from Duke University Press in 2019. Allen is the author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black SelfMaking in Cuba (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of the special double issue of GLQ titled "Black/Queer/Diaspora." Allen is currently working on two research projects, is beginning research on a third monograph, "Structural Adjustments: Black Survival in the 1980s," and is serving as lead Co-PI on the interdisciplinary research team "Reproducing Race in Miami."
Marlon M. Bailey is an associate professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. His book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (University of Michigan Press, 2013), was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA. Some of Marlon's essays appear in Signs, Feminist Studies, Souls, Gender, Place, and Culture, and several book collections. Marlon's essay "Black Gay (Raw) Sex" appears in No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (Duke University Press, 2016), edited by E. Patrick Johnson.
Gabby Benavente is an English PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests include trans, queer, environmental, activist, and queer studies and how these fields can help imagine worlds that wrestle with legacies of violence.
Andy Campbell is an assistant professor of critical studies at USC-Roski School of Art and Design. His book "Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art" is under contract with Manchester University Press.
V Varun Chaudhry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of "transgender" in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA. V's research has been generously supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Critical Inquiry and American Anthropologist.
Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women's studies and director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Since their 2012 book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press), Chen's current project concerns intoxication's role in the interanimation of race and disability. Elsewhere, Chen has been thinking about and writing on slowness, gesture, inhumanisms, and cognitive disability and method. Chen coedits the "Anima" book series at Duke and is part of a small and sustaining queer-trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jih-Fei Cheng is an assistant professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. He has worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a cultural center, been involved in media production and curation, and participated in queer and trans of color grassroots organizations in Los Angeles and New York City. Cheng's research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. His first book manuscript tracks how the experimental videos of feminist and queer of color AIDS activists produced during the US early crisis years (1980s to early 1990s) continue to intervene into contemporary popular media, scientific conceptions, and social movements. Cheng's published writings appear in Amerasia Journal; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others.
Oliver Coates is a college supervisor in history at Cambridge University and an associate researcher at Institut des mondes africains, CNRS, Paris. His research focuses on West African society and culture, and has been published in Research in African Literatures, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and History in Africa.
Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science and...
