Biographies
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Ashleigh M. Campi is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. Her research and teaching focus on right and left social movements in the 20th and 21st century United States; democratic education; and race, sex, and gender in American political culture. Her current book project shows how movements in law, media, and schools conserved white racial and class power by eroding the ideas and infrastructure of democracy since the 1980s, and how racial justice activists in education have countered these projects. Her work has appeared in Polity and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She can be reached at acampi@lmu.edu.
Stephen Dillon is Associate Professor and Critical Race and Queer Studies at Hampshire College. He is the author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State (Duke University Press, 2018). His other writings on race, sexuality, feminism, and incarceration have appeared in Radical History Review, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies and Critical Methodologies; GLQ; Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and the edited collections Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition.
Andrew Dilts is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. Dilts’ work as a political theorist focuses on the relationships between race, sexuality, political membership, sovereignty, and punishment in the US. Dilts is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Carceral Notebooks 4, 6, and 12, as well as a two-part special project in Radical Philosophy Review 17.2 and 18.2.
Mikkel Flohr is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, the University of Westminster and the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. He works at the intersection of social and political theory, the history of ideas and political economy. His work has appeared in Distinktion, Telos, Contemporary Political Theory and Rethinking Marxism. He is currently researching different conceptualizations of the people and popular authority in the history of political thought as part of a project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. He can be reached at mikkel.flohr@gmail.com.
Rhana Gittens is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses in media and rhetoric studies. She is a critical rhetoric and critical cultural studies scholar who researches identity, public memory, space and place, and media representation. She is currently working on a book focusing on cultural gentrification in the city of Atlanta and rhetoric’s generative power for community and urban development. Dr. Gittens can be reached at rgittens@oglethorpe.edu; her website is here: http://rhanagittens.com.
Steven Johnston is Neal A. Maxwell Presidential Chair at the University of Utah. He is the author of five books: Wonder and Cruelty: Ontological War in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (Lexington, 2019); Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018); American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics (Cambridge, 2015); The Truth about Patriotism (Duke, 2007); Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order (Cornell, 1999). He is currently working on three book projects: Between Realism and Tragedy: The Moral-Political Odyssey of ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’; On Tyrannicide: Tyranny in America from the Founding to Trump; and Tragedy and International Politics.
Stefan Jonsson is professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden, and cultural critic a at Sweden’s major newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He has written on European modernism and modernity, focusing especially on representations and fantasies of crowds and collectivities, as well as on European racism and colonialism. Works include Subject Without Nation (2000); A Brief History of the Masses (2008); Crowds and Democracy (2013); Eurafrica (with Peo Hansen; 2013); and Austere Histories in European Societies (edited with Julia Willén; 2016). He is currently completing a book on aesthetic knowledge and the art of protest. Stefan can be reached at Stefan.jonsson@liu.se...
