Contributors
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Jeremy Adelman studied at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and completed a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is currently the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and the Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His recent books include Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of Humankind from the Beginning to the Present (W. W. Norton, 5th ed., 2016), and the acclaimed global life-history Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton, 2013).
Leslie Barnes is senior lecturer of French Studies at the Australian National University. Her first book, Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature (Nebraska, 2014), offers a literary history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century France that figures border crossings and contact with the colonial other as constitutive elements of metropolitan literary production. Her current project studies literary and cinematic narratives that engage with questions of sex work, mobility, and human rights in Southeast Asia. She is also co-editing The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul (Rutgers, 2021).
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In 2019, he was elected professor at the Collège de France on an annual chair. Anthropologist, sociologist, and physician, he has conducted research in Senegal, Congo, South Africa, Ecuador, and France, focusing on moral and political issues. He gave the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley on punishment, the Adorno Lectures in Frankfurt on life, and the Eric Wolf Lecture in Vienna on conspiracy theories. Recipient of the Gold Medal in anthropology and the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award, he recently authored The Will to Punish (Oxford, 2018) and Life: A Critical User’s Manual (Polity, 2018).
Marion Fourcade is professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and visiting professor of sociology at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) for 2019–2020. She is the author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton, 2009). Her current work focuses on the politics of wine classification and taste in France and the United States and on new forms of stratification, morality, and profit in the digital economy. A book from this project, The Ordinal Society (with Kieran Healy), is under contract with Harvard University Press.
Joel Isaac is associate professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (Harvard, 2012) and the editor of three books, including (with Gary Gerstle) States of Exception in American History (Chicago, 2020). Working Knowledge was awarded the Gladstone Prize of the Royal Historical Society. His current book project explores ideas of fairness, reciprocity, and rationality in the twentieth-century social sciences.
Emilio Kourí is professor and chair of history and director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of various books about Mexico, including A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico (Stanford, 2004), which won the 2005 Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best book on the history of Latin America. He is currently finishing a book about the origins and historical meaning of Mexico’s community-based twentieth-century agrarian reform.
Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and professor of history at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard, 2010), and edited or coedited a number of others. His most recent books are Christian Human Rights (Penn, 2015), based on Mellon Distinguished Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2014, and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (Harvard, 2018).
Kavita Ramakrishnan is lecturer in geography and international development at the University of East Anglia. Her research focuses on eviction and resettlement, informal housing and everyday experiences of marginalization, with a regional focus on South Asian and European cities.
Tim Rogan is a barrister at Banco Chambers in Sydney...
