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Macabe Keliher

Macabe Keliher is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University and author of The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China.

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Alexander Livingston

Alexander Livingston is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Damn Great Empires! William James and the Politics of Pragmatism.

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David Konstan

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and author of In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome.

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Whitney Phillips

Whitney Phillips, Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Digital Technologies at Syracuse University, is author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

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Kevin Henderson

Kevin Henderson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  He is also a student in the program for Advanced Feminist Studies through the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department at UMass.

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Stephanie Sy-Quia

Stephanie Sy-Quia is a freelance writer and critic based in London. Her writing has been featured in The Guardian, The Economist, The FT Weekend Magazine, and other publications. She has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay Prize and is a Ledbury Critic.

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John Merrick

John Merrick is a London-based writer and an editor at Verso Books.

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Mary Ziegler

Mary Ziegler the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of three books on the history of the abortion debate, most recently Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.

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Hussani Abdulrahim

Hussani Abdulrahim is a winner of the 2019 Poetically Written Prose Contest. He was a semifinalist for the Boston Review 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest and shortlisted for the 2019 ACT Award. He also won the 2016 Author Prize. His works are forthcoming or have appeared at 20:35 AfricapraxismagonlineKSR, and Memento (an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poets). He lives in Northern Nigeria.

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Erica R. Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the author For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.

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Carmen Lea Dege

Carmen Lea Dege is Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel. She is currently writing a book on the theory and practice of uncertainty with a focus on Karl Jaspers. Follow her on Twitter @carmen_dege.

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Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Joelle M. Abi-Rached is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East and coeditor of Lebanon: Anatomy of a Collapse, a forthcoming collection of essays on Lebanese politics and society.

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Hanna Lerner

Hanna Lerner is Associate Professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University.

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Jim Whiteside

Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass, and is a 2019–2021 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems have received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vanderbilt University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned his MFA. His  poems have appeared or will soon appear in journals such as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Crazyhorse. His opera libretto Higher Ground was scored by composer Jules Pegram and debuted at the University of Michigan in April 2018.

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Emily Cain

Emily Cain has served in both the Maine Senate and the Maine House of Representatives, and is Executive Director of EMILY’s List.

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Kelly Dittmar

Kelly Dittmar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is coauthor of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters.

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Kerry L. Haynie

Kerry L. Haynie teaches Political Science and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is coauthor (with Beth Reingold and Kirsten Widner) of Race, Gender, and Legislative Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach.

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Dawn Langan Teele

Dawn Langan Teele is Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote.

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Suzanne Dovi

Suzanne Dovi is Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She is author of The Good Representative.

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Alice Eagly

Alice Eagly is Professor of Psychology Emerita and James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. She is coauthor of Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders.

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Edward Fishman

Edward Fishman is a former member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

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Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Center for Contemporary South Asia. His most recent book is Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy (2013). 

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Jake Orbison

Jake Orbison is a writer from New York. He has also published work at poets.org, the White Review, and elsewhere.

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Anne McDonough

Anne McDonough was a Research Fellow and is now a Non-Resident Affiliate of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab at Stanford University.

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