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Jack Lewis Snyder

Jack Snyder (PhD, Columbia, 1981) is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia.

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Miriam Pemberton

Miriam Pemberton, Ph.D., is the author of Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies (Routledge, 2023).

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Oxana Shevel

Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University and an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. She is also a member of the EUDO Citizenship expert group as a country expert on Ukraine, and a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) scholarly network.

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Liana Fix

Liana Fix is a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power?

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Taras Bilous

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian, co-editor of Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and a member of the Social Movement (Sotsіalnyi Rukh) organization.

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Kathryn Stoner

Kathryn Stoner is the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and a Senior Fellow at CDDRL and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI at Stanford University.

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Evaristo Rivera

Evaristo Rivera is a writer based in the Central Valley of California.

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Timothy Weaver

Timothy Weaver is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany (SUNY) and author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Alexis V. Jackson

Alexis V. Jackson is a poet and professor. Her debut poetry collection is My Sisters’ Country.

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Njoku Nonso

Njoku Nonso is a Nigerian Igbo-born poet and essayist. His work which explores the self as a unit of language, familyhood, spaces, death, grief and otherness has been published in Chestnut Review, YabaLeft Review, Agbowo, Bodega, 20.35 Africa, Rising Phoenix Press (Pushcart-nominated), Memento: An Anthology of Nigerian Contemporary Poetry, Ake Review and others. A 2022 Unserious Collective fellow, he’s a finalist for Open Drawer Poetry Contest, Lumiere Review Inaugural Writing Contest, and most recently Chestnut Review‘s Stubborn Writers Contest. He loves stray dogs and takes occasional photographs of them. Hook up on Twitter: @NN_Emmanuels.

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Simona Foltyn

Simona Foltyn is a journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in Baghdad. Her work focuses on armed struggle, social justice, corruption, and human rights.

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Essiah Ritchie

Essiah Ritchie is a freelance writer.

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Alex Raskolnikov

Alex Raskolnikov is Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law at Columbia Law School.
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S. L. Hurley

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Arthur Ripstein

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Eric Maskin

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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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Robert M. Solow

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John Roemer

John Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. His many books include Equality of Opportunity and Theories of Distributive Justice.

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Sascha Stronach

Sascha Stronach (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki) is an author, editor, and poet based out of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Their debut novel, The Dawnhounds, won the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novel and was released in the United States in 2022.

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Joe Pitkin

Joe Pitkin has lived, taught, and studied in England, Hungary, Mexico, and at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. His short stories have appeared in Analog, Black Static, Cosmos, and other magazines and podcasts, as well as on his blog, The Subway Test. He lives in Portland, Oregon, in the shadow of a small extinct volcano. His most recent novel, Exit Black, will be published by Blackstone in 2023.

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Kenda Mutongi

Kenda Mutongi is Professor of History at MIT. She is author of Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya.

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Michael Tod Powers

Michael Tod Powers lives in Los Angeles, where he recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, and numerous other magazines and journals. He is currently at work on a novel about art and parenthood in the climate crisis. You can find him online at michaeltodpowers.com

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Eric Moses Gurevitch

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He is working on a book called Everyday Sciences: Making Knowledge Local in South Asia.

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