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Dora Vargha

Dora Vargha is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She is author of Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic.

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.

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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is Assistant Professor of Geography and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky and a postdoctoral fellow with New York University’s Prison Education Program.

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Stefan Helmreich

Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (California, 2009) and Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton, 2016). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, American Anthropologist, The Wire, Cabinet, Public Culture, and BOMB.

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David S. Jones

David S. Jones, MD, PhD, is A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University.

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Alex Vitale

Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing (2017).

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Alex Reinert

Alex Reinert is Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy and the Director of the Center for Rights and Justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

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Byrd McDaniel

Byrd McDaniel is an ethnographer who analyzes music, digital worlds, listening norms, and American popular culture. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University in the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

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Paul M. Renfro

Paul M. Renfro is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University and the author of Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State.

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Melissa Phruksachart

Melissa Phruksachart is Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. Her essays have appeared in Amerasia Journal, Feminist Media Studies, and Film Quarterly.

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Tomás Q. Morín

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Machete and memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance coedited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center and author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity.

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Jodi Melamed

Jodi Melamed is Professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University. She is the author of Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. 

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Lisa Cacho

Lisa Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected.

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Joanna Schwartz

Joanna Schwartz is Professor at UCLA School of Law.

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Kate Levine

Kate Levine is Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of law.

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Jake Braun

Jake Braun is the Executive Director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, where he also teaches election security. In 2009 he was appointed by President Barack Obama as White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. He is also co-founder of the DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village, aimed at providing public, third-party inspection of voting equipment.

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Marina Magloire

Marina Magloire is an assistant professor of English at University of Miami and a Public Voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project.

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Clare O’Connor

Clare O’Connor is a writer, editor, and organizer. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.

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Brandon Bloch

Brandon Bloch is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is working on a book manuscript entitled Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religion, Nation, and Democracy after Nazism.

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Sadia Hassan

Sadia Hassan, Somali American essayist, poet, and MFA Candidate at the University of Mississippi, is the winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s 2020 Award for College Writers in Poetry. Her essay "Silence is a Lonely Country" was nominated for the 2019 Krause Essay Prize. Her chapbook “Enumeration” appears in the New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Set (Saba). You can find more of her work on her website at sadiahassan.com

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Scholars for Social Justice

“The Fire This Time” was writen by Scholars for Social Justice Coordinating Committee members Leith Mullings, Premilla Nadasen, and Robyn C. Spencer.

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Atiya Husain

Atiya Husain is an assistant professor of sociology and American studies at University of Richmond. She is currently working on a book on the FBI most wanted program, race, and terrorism.

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