Biographies
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Michael J. Albert is a lecturer in International Relations working at the intersection of IR and political theory, critical political economy, and the transdisciplinary study of socio-ecological systems. His current book project, titled Mapping and Navigating the Planetary Crisis Convergence, analyzes the convergence between ecological, political-economic, and energy crises in order to illuminate possibilities for world system transformation in the coming decades. He is also interested in counter-hegemonic movements – including degrowth, ecosocialism, solidarity economies, and peasant-based agroecology movements – and their potential for creating alternative political economies as the crises of global capitalism and the earth system intensify.
Joe Drexler-Dreis is assistant professor of Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana. He has written on Latin American liberation theology and decolonial theology. His most recent book is Decolonial Love: Salvation in Colonial Modernity (Fordham UP, 2019). His current work focuses on political theology and political economy. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled The Resiliency of Matter: A Political-Theological Critique of Neoliberalism. Joe can be reached at jdrexler@xula.edu.
Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches conceptions of personhood, race, gender, and sexuality. His work engages the relationship between Black Studies, Queer Theory, and 20th-Century Continental Philosophy with a particular interest in questions around ethics, ontology, opacity, and anti-racism.
Michaele L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and a President's Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of numerous books and articles at the intersection of feminist and democratic theory, and most recently co-editor with Andrew Valls of Iris Marion Young: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference (Routledge, 2022). She is currently writing a book on feminist political theory, Bandita: Iris Young and the Politics of Writing, Reading, and Citation, and developing a role-playing game set in the Paris Commune. Michaele can be reached at michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu; her website is: https://www.michaeleferguson.com/.
Mark Kaswan works at the intersection of political theory and social change, working to expand our understandings of politics and of democracy and to find ways to make democracy meaningful for people in their daily lives. He studies the cooperative movement and worker ownership, bridging abstract ideas about democracy, happiness, and politics with political economics and ideas about the structure of social institutions—particularly the workplace. His work crosses boundaries, drawing from political theory, sociology, philosophy, economics, public policy, feminism, history, business and management studies, organizational theory, and race and ethnic studies. Dr. Kaswan is a fellow in the Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. Connect via email at mark.kaswan@utrgv.edu; see https://utrgv.academia.edu/MarkKaswan for publications.
Hagar Kotef is a Professor of Political Theory at SOAS, University of London, where she teaches political and postcolonial theory, state violence, and Israel/Palestine. Her most recent book is The Colonizing Self (or: Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine), published with Duke UP (2020). She is currently working on a book mapping the civic infrastructure of torture, which is written as part of a large of a larger project, done in collaboration with the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, of constructing an archive of torture in Israel. Hagar can be reached at hagar.kotef@soas.ac.uk.
Philip A. Michelbach is Associate Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. His work focuses on Democratic Theory and German Political Thought. Philip can be reached at Philip.Michelbach@mail.wvu.edu.
Andrew Poe is Associate Professor of Social and Political Thought at ACU (Australian Catholic University) in North Sydney. His research interests are in democratic theory, political theology, extremisms, and affect and emotion. He is currently completing a new book manuscript titled Democracy without Police. He can be reached at Andrew.Poe@acu.edu.au.
Mark Reinhardt is Class of 1956 Professor of American Civilization at Williams College, where he teaches political theory and American studies. Much of his work has been at the intersection of visual and political studies. The present article is a version of the first chapter of his book in progress, Visual Politics...
