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Orna Ben-Naftali is the rector of the College of Management Academic Studies (The Collman), Israel, and the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights at the Striks School of Law, The Collman. Her latest book (co-authored with Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo), The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), proposes that this control is a legal laboratory and explores the role law has played in the making and sustaining of this regime.

Michal Heiman is an artist, curator, theoretician, and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1–4 (M.H.T.s). She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984). Her enactment and installation works, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas. She teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. In 2015, she founded the Women in Academia Organization to protect and advance women's equality in the academy. Her project Return/Asylum: A New Community of Women, 1855–2019 is to be exhibited in Washington, D.C., and Los Angles during 2019–2020.

Golnar Nikpour is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College. She is currently finishing her first book, "The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran," a study on prisons and punishment in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Iran that situates the expansion of Iran's modern prison and public discourses on those prisons in the context in global context. From 2015 to 2017 Nikpour was an A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and from 2017 to 2018 she was Neubauer junior research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Her research and writing have been supported by the Social Science Research Center, the A.W. Mellon Foundation, and the Giles Whiting Foundation.

A. Naomi Paik is assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) received the 2018 Best Book in History Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and was a finalist for the 2017 John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American studies from the American Studies Association. She has published essays in Social Text, Radical History Review, Cultural Dynamics, and Race & Class and in the edited collection Guantánamo and the Empire of Freedom.

Megan Cole Paustian is assistant professor of English at North Central College, where she teaches writing and literature courses focused on issues of race, gender, empire, and globalization. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow (2008–12) and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow (2010–13). She is currently at work on a book, "Humanitarian Fictions: Narratives and Novels of the Third Sector," which explores the relationship between popular and literary narratives of international care, drawing humanitarian discourse into conversation with postcolonial critique. Her essays have appeared in Research in African Literatures and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies.

Edward Rackley is a security and governance specialist, living and working in conflict-related emergencies with leading international institutions since 1988. He is a philosopher by training; his dissertation addressed the presumption that inaction before atrocity amounts to complicity, an association inherited from post-Holocaust German social thought. His research essays have appeared in African Arguments, Oxford Research Group, Warscapes, Roads and Kingdoms, Journal of Disaster Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Continental Philosophy Review, and Sustainable Security. For Crisis and Catastrophe: Legal and Scientific Perspectives (Amherst, 2010), he wrote on the complications of reintegrating ex-combatants. Earlier, he coedited RD Congo: Silence on meurt: Témoignages (Paris, 2002).

Sharon Sliwinski is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges the fields of visual culture, political theory, and the life of the mind. Her first, awarding-winning book, Human Rights in Camera (University of Chicago Press, 2011), explored the visual politics of human rights. She has contributed broadly to the field of photography studies, most recently coediting Photography and the Optical Unconscious...

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