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Julian Aguon

Julian Aguon is a human rights lawyer working at the intersection of international indigenous rights and environmental law. A native son of Guam, Julian founded his own law firm to advocate for the myriad peoples of the Pacific region. Julian lectures at the University of Guam and the William S. Richardson School of Law, where he teaches International Law and Pacific Island Legal Systems. He has published numerous books and law articles on a range of international law and human rights issues.

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H. Jacob Carlson

Jake is an urban and political sociologist, focused on democracy, housing, and changing cities. His current research examines the various causes and consequences of gentrification and displacement—and the relationships between the two. Baoicchi and Carlson are co-authors of “Social Housing Development Authority,” a proposal to convert distressed real estate into permanently affordable housing.

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Andrew L. Russell

Andrew L. Russell is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is coauthor, with Lee Vinsel, of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most. Find him on Twitter @RussellProf.

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Ro Khanna

Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress.

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Mikhal Dekel

Mikhal Dekel is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Tehran Children is her third book.

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Claire Vergerio

Claire Vergerio is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University and author of War, States, and International Order.

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Paula Findlen

Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University and Director of the Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

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Maryam Jamshidi

Maryam Jamshidi is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado-Boulder Law School, where she teaches and writes in the areas of national security, public international law, the law of foreign relations, and tort law.

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David Grundy

David Grundy is a poet and scholar based in London, and author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets. He is currently working on a study of Boston- and San Francisco–area queer poetry.

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Raj Patel

Raj Patel is Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

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Ben Zdencanovic

Ben Zdencanovic is a postdoctoral associate in International Security Studies at Yale University. He is working on a book called From Cradle to Grave: The United States in a World of Welfare.

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Houman Barekat

Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London. He reviews regularly for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is co-editor (with Robert Barry and David Winters) of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online.

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Esmat Elhalaby

Esmat Elhalaby, a historian of the transnational Middle East and South Asia, is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

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Yuen Yuen Ang

Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). She is currently writing a new book, The Age of Disruption: Toward an Adaptive Political Economy, with Cambridge University Press. Follow her on Twitter at @yuenyuenang.

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Sierra Pettengill

Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her 2017 feature-length film, the all-archival documentary The Reagan Show, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival before airing on CNN.

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David Theo Goldberg

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. His latest book is The War on Critical Race Theory.

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Lily Hu

Lily Hu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale and a contributing editor at Boston Review. Her writing has also appeared in Phenomenal World and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Charmaine Chua

Charmaine Chua is Acting Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Their work has been published in Jacobin, Theory & Event, and Historical Materialism.

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Daniel Akihiro Iwama

Daniel Akihiro Iwama is a PhD Candidate in UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs. His doctoral research investigates conjunctures of planning and indigenous repossession in militarized Okinawa.

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Matthew D. Lassiter

Matthew D. Lassiter is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and director of the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab.

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Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His books include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism, The Value of MoneyRe-envisioning Socialism, and, most recently, Capitalism and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present, co-authored with Utsa Patnaik.

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Heather C. McGhee

Heather Charisse McGhee is an American political commentator and strategist. She is a former president and currently a distinguished senior fellow of Demos, a non-profit progressive U.S. think tank. McGhee’s first book is The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.

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Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn is Professor of History at New York University and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for A Nation Under Our Feet. His latest book is Illiberal America.

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C. Thi Nguyen

C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His first book is Games: Agency as Art (Oxford University Press), and his public writing has been published at Aeon and the New York Times.

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