Notes on Contributors
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karen akoka is an associate professor of political science at Paris Nanterre University and a researcher at Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (ISP). She studies asylum and immigration policies in different national contexts, with a focus on comparative approaches over time and space. She has published several articles and books, including L'asile et l'exil: Une histoire de la distinction réfugiés/migrants (2020).
t. alexander aleinikoff is the dean of the New School for Social Research and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School. His recent publications include New Narratives on the Peopling of America (coedited with Alexandra Délano; 2024) and The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime (with Leah Zamore; 2019).
elizabeth allen teaches at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in Medieval English Literature (2021) and coeditor of the special issue of the journal Exemplaria, "Spaces and Times of Crisis" (2022). Her scholarship has appeared in postmedieval, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, New Medieval Literatures, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and elsewhere.
saladdin ahmed bahozde is a scholar member of the New University in Exile Consortium and an associate of the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University. His books include Critical Theory from the Margins (2023) and The Death of Home (2024).
shiva balaghi is a historian who has written widely on the visual culture of the Middle East and its diasporas. She is the academic coordinator of the Area Global Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Saddam Hussein: A Biography (2005), Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution (coedited with Lynn Gumpert; 2002), and Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power (coedited with Fatma Müge Göçek; 1994).
robin cohen is a professor emeritus of development studies and senior research fellow, University of Oxford. His recent books include a 25th anniversary edition of Global Diasporas: An Introduction (2023), Migration: The Movement of Humankind from Prehistory to the Present (2019), and Refugia: Solving the Problem of Mass Displacement (with Nicholas Van Hear; 2020).
wendy doniger [O'Flaherty] is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, Emerita, and the author of 50 books, most recently The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir (2019), Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Mythology (2021), and An American Girl in India: Letters from 1963–64 (2023).
peter gatrell, professor emeritus at the University of Manchester, is the author, most recently, of The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present (2019). He is currently preparing for publication a coauthored book, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom. He is a fellow of the British Academy.
irena grudzińska gross emigrated from her native Poland after the unrest of 1968. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1982. She taught East European literature and history at several universities and was a 2018 Guggenheim Foundation fellow. Her books include Miłosz and the Long Shadow of War (2020), Golden Harvest (with Jan T. Gross; 2012), Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine, and the Romantic Imagination (1995).
joseph horowitz is the author of 13 books exploring aspects of the American musical experience, most recently The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War (2023). He regularly produces More than Music documentaries for National Public Radio. Horowitz administers Music Unwound, a consortium of orchestras and universities funded by the NEH. He occasionally performs, composes, and produces films. He previously administered the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM, and PostClassical Ensemble in Washington, DC.
michael ignatieff is Rector Emeritus of Central European University, Vienna, and a professor of history there.
avishai margalit is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2006–11. Margalit is a member of Israel Academy of Sciences. He received the Israel Prize 2010 and the Emet Prize 2007. He...
