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Victoria Baena

Victoria Baena is Research Fellow in Modern and Medieval Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

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David Alff

David Alff is an associate professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the author of The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730 (2017), and is currently writing a new book, Rights of Way, which investigates the legal and literary history of infrastructure in the early modern Anglophone World.

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Andrew L. Croxford

Andrew L. Croxford is an immunologist with a career spanning academia and industry, specializing in the inflammatory mechanisms driving human disease.

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Kathryn Bond Stockton

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Her latest book is Gender(s).

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Becca Rothfeld

Becca Rothfeld is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an editor at The Point, and a contributing editor at Boston Review. Her debut essay collection is All Things Are Too Small.

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Nicolas Guilhot

Nicolas Guilhot is Professor of Intellectual History in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute.

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Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MD, MS, is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He hosts and produces the podcast Flip the Script on health inequities and was recognized among Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Healthcare in 2021. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Scientific American, among other venues. Find him on Twitter @Maxjordan_N.

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Diana M. Chien

Diana M. Chien’s writing has appeared in publications including Tin HouseBoulevard, the American ReaderVOLT, and Web Conjunctions, and has received awards from the Atlantic Monthly and others. She holds a certificate in creative writing from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in microbiology from MIT, where she directs a science communication program.

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Gerald Epstein

Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His latest book is Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us.

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Billie Anania

Billie Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in Brooklyn. Their work has appeared in HyperallergicJacobinGothamistThe Art Newspaper, and elsewhere.

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Shellyne Rodriguez

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.

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Alexander Betts

Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at the University of Oxford and author of The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies.

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Caley Horan

Caley Horan is Associate Professor of History at MIT and author of Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America.

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Alina Utrata

Alina Utrata is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Gates-Cambridge and Marshall scholar. Her research “Silicon Valley and the State” examines technology corporations as competitors to state power.

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Anjanette Delgado

Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer based in Miami. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon ReviewPleiades Mag, CUNY’s Hostos Review, the New York Times (Modern Love), Vogue, and NPR, among others. She is author of two novels and editor of Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.

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Shauna Barbosa

Shauna Barbosa is the author of the poetry collection Cape Verdean Blues (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New YorkerPloughsharesAGNIIowa ReviewVirginia Quarterly ReviewPoetry Society of AmericaPBS Newshour, Lit Hub, and others. She was nominated for PEN America’s 2019 Open Book Award and was a 2018 Disquiet International Luso-American fellow. Shauna received her MFA from Bennington College in Vermont and is currently working on a compilation of stories.

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Andrea Jimenez Cisneros

Andrea Jimenez Cisneros is an information management lecturer at the University of Sheffield’s Information School. Her research examines the role of innovation in socioeconomic development through a decolonial and feminist lens. Find her on Twitter @andrejcisneros.

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Tony Roberts

Tony Roberts is a Digital Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, where his work focuses on digital inequalities, digital citizenship and digital rights. Find him on Twitter here.

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Josh Whitford

Josh Whitford is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing.

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Muzna Awayed-Bishara

Muzna Awayed-Bishara is a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Chris Hong

Chris Hong is a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying the economic and intellectual history of Old Regime France and the Age of Revolutions.

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Nic Johnson

Nic Johnson is Teaching Fellow in the Law, Letters, and Society program at the University of Chicago. His writing has also appeared in New Left Review, the New York Review of Books, and Phenomenal World.

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Jules Joanne Gleeson

Jules Joanne Gleeson is a writer, comedian, and historian. She is coeditor, with Elle O’Rourke, of Transgender Marxism. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint MagazineInvert Journal, and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events.

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Reynolds Farley

Reynolds Farley is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Michigan and coauthor of Detroit Divided.

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