Biographies
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Amna A. Akbar is a professor of law at The Ohio State University. Akbar's scholarly and teaching focus on policing and race, and contemporary left social movements, their epistemologies, and their demands. She writes broadly for academic and popular audiences, with works published or forthcoming in outlets like Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, and NYU Law Review, and the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and Boston Review.
Dr. Giovanni Batz is currently a 2020–2021 President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, where he is working on his manuscript tentatively entitled "The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Megaprojects and Ixil Resistance in Guatemala". He began working on his book as a 2018–2019 Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Batz has also conducted research on Guatemalan-Maya youth in Los Angeles, and migration of K'iche'-Maya from Almolonga, Quetzaltenango. His work can be accessed here: https://ucdavis.academia.edu/GioBatzGiovanniBatz. Batz also has a column in Plaza Pública: https://www.plazapublica.com.gt/users/gio-batz.
Lorna Bracewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Program Coordinator for Women's Studies at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. Her scholarship focuses on feminist theory and the history of political thought and has been published in academic journals like Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and popular forums like The Washington Post. Her book, Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, offers a revisionist history of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. It will be available from the University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2021. For additional info., please visit Lorna's website: www.lornabracewell.com.
Elaine Coburn is Director of the Centre For Feminist Research and Associate Professor at York University, where she teaches international studies and feminist theory. Her work is concerned with bringing anti-racist, feminist and Indigenous knowledges from "margins to centre" in the academy, and more broadly investigates unjust inequities in order to challenge them. She is currently completing an edited book, tentatively titled, On Being Human: The Selected Writings of Emma LaRocque, 1975–2020. Elaine can be reached at ecoburn@yorku.ca; her publications are available on academia.edu and researchgate.net.
Mat Coleman is Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. Mat is a political geographer who teaches and researches broadly in the areas of law and geography, policing, state geopolitics, political economy, borders and bordering, race, and immigration. His work has been published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography and Antipode, among other outlets. Mat is currently working on a manuscript about critical methodologies for studying police violence and malpractice. Mat is a recipient of the university-wide Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Mat can be reached at coleman.3737@osu.edu.
Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and teaches courses in Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous gender and sexuality, Indigenous feminisms and gender, and Navajo Studies. Her book, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007 and has received positive reviews. Her book for young adults, The Long Walk: The Forced Exile of the Navajo, was published by Chelsea House in 2007. Professor Denetdale is the author of numerous essays, articles, and book chapters. She has expertise as a consultant for Native museum exhibits and was an expert witness on behalf of the Navajo Nation. She is the director of UNM's Institute for American Indian Research (IfAIR) and the chair of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission. As a commissioner on the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, she has advocated for Navajo women and the LGBTQI community.
Avery Denny has been an instructor for over 34 years. He has taught courses on herbology, holistic healing, and Diné oral history, culture and philosophy. He was recently designated a Full Professor at Diné College. Avery is a Diné hatáalii, singer of the Blessing Way, Beauty...
