Biographies
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Anand Bertrand Commissiong is a political theorist and assistant professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach. His research and teaching focus areas include racial, ethnic, gendered and class-based movements for political change. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Modernity (2011).
Kathy E. Ferguson teaches political theory and feminist theory in the Departments of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her book on the role of letterpress printers in the anarchist movement, entitled Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture, is coming out with Duke University Press in 2023. She is currently writing a book on the participation of women in the anarchist movement, entitled Emma Goldman’s Women; some of the raw data for this book is available at https://www2.hawaii.edu/~kferguso/.
Patrick T. Giamario is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research and teaching focus on contemporary democratic theory, critical theory, the history of political thought, and aesthetic philosophy. He is the author of Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) as well as numerous journal articles. Patrick is currently working on a new book project on Plato and the politics of deception. He can be reached at ptgiamar@uncg.edu.
Callum Ingram is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches political theory and serves as the Department of Political Science’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. His research is broadly focused on structural oppression and dissent. He is currently completing a book project on the hermeneutic conditions of structurally transformative action.
Nidesh Lawtoo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and English at KU Leuven and PI of the ERC-funded project, Homo Mimeticus. His transdisciplinary work promotes a mimetic turn in continental philosophy, literary studies, film studies, and political theory by developing a new theory of imitation attentive to affective contagion, embodiment, and relationality. He is the author of five monographs, most recently, (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth (Michigan State UP 2019), Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (Leuven UP, 2022), and Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: vol. 1 The Catharsis Hypothesis (Michigan State UP, 2023). More information available at http:// www.homomimeticus.eu.
Joseph Lowndes is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, and a scholar of race, democracy, and the right. He is the author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, co-editor of Race and American Political Development, and co-author (with Daniel Martinez HoSang) of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the Right-Wing Politics of Precarity. His current projects include the forthcoming edited volume The Politics of the Multiracial Right, and a book on the mainstreaming of the far right in the U.S. Republican Party.
Desireé R. Melonas is an assistant professor of political theory and coordinator for the Distinction in Black Studies program at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. She researches and teaches at the intersection of contemporary political theory, Black political thought, theories of place and space, and Black feminist thought. She is also a 2020–21 Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Annie Menzel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Teejop, Ho-Chunk land. She is a political theorist and former midwife whose work focuses on understanding how racial capitalism, colonization, and gender-based oppression shape human reproductive life, health, and care, as well as theorizations of reproductive justice and freedom. She is completing revisions on her first book for University of California Press, Fatal Deflection: Black Infant Mortality and the Biopolitics of Racial Innocence, and at work on second book project, Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in US Midwifery.
Liron Mor is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches courses on such global phenomena as refugees, terror, and Orientalism, as well as on the cultures of the modern Middle East. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning the fields of critical and political theory, Hebrew and Arabic...
