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Sahar F. Aziz

Sahar F. Aziz is Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School.

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Sudha Setty

Sudha Setty is a professor and associate dean for faculty development at Western New England University School of Law and author of National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law.

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Wadie Said

Wadie Said is Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and author of Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions.

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Amna A. Akbar

Amna A. Akbar is Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

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Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of The Verging Cities, which won the 2017 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, the GLCA Award, the National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book Award, and was featured as a top debut of 2015 by Poets and Writers (Center for Literary Publishing 2015). Her most recent work is forthcoming or can be found in POETRY, Gulf Coast, West Branch, the Bennington Review, and more. 

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Niko Kolodny

Niko Kolodny is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem.

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Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar has published over ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poems on Jefferson and Orexia: Poems.  She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Virginia.

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Anjuli Raza Kolb

Anjuli Raza Kolb is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth.

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Ulka Anjaria

Ulka Anjaria is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form and editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English, both published by Cambridge University Press.

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Sébastien Smirou

Sébastien Smirou is the author of three poetry volumes—Un temps pour s’étreindreBeau voir, and Mon Laurent—as well as a recent prose meditation, Un temps pour se séparer : notes sur Robert Capa. A psychoanalyst, he has translated two psychoanalytical texts from the Italian, Antonino Ferro’s Rêveries and Domenico Chianese and Andreina Fontana’s Immaginando. He is currently a literary fellow at the Villa de Medici in Rome.

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Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz is C. William Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of ComplicityEthics and Law for a Collective Age (Cambridge, 2000) and On War and Democracy (Princeton, 2016).

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Kenneth Warren

Kenneth Warren is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. His scholarship and teaching focus on American and African American literature from the late nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. His books include Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago, 1993) and So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, 2003).

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Marta Jimenez

Marta Jimenez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Emory University. She specializes in ancient philosophy with an emphasis on ancient Greek moral and political philosophy. Currently she is working on a new book project entitled Aristotle on Justice as a Personal Virtue: Self-Love, Friendship, and Equality.

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Daniel Penny

Daniel Penny is a critic, journalist, and poet. He teaches writing at Parsons and The New School.

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Sarah Vap

Sarah Vap is the author of seven books of poetry, poetics, and creative nonfiction, including her most recent book, Winter: Effulgences and Devotions (Noemi Press, 2019). Her collection Viability (Penguin, 2016), was selected for the National Poetry Series. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, and was recently the Distinguished Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. She teaches in the MFA program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation at Drew University.

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Justin Gomer

Justin Gomer is Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is currently writing a book entitled, Colorblindness, A Life: The Political and Cultural Biography of an Ideology.

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Andrew Lanham

Andrew Lanham is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. His current book project is No Justice Without Peace: How Black Antiwar Activists Shaped the Struggle for Democracy in America.

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Robert Baker

Robert Baker is the author of The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (2005) and In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen (2012), and the translator of René Char’s The Word as Archipelago (2012). He is professor of English at the University of Montana.

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Alan Tonelson

Alan Tonelson is founder of the public policy blog RealityChek and author of The Race to the Bottom. He has worked on trade policy with the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

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Harley Shaiken

Harley Shaiken is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Robert Lepenies

Robert Lepenies is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and Berlin Social Science Center.

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Peter Evans

Peter Evans is Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Califronia, Berkeley, and a co-director of the Scholars Strategy Network.

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Sam Cha

Sam Cha is a poet, teacher, editor, and translator. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, several places, including apt, Anderbo, Better, Best New Poets 2016, decomP, DIAGRAM, Memorious, Missouri Review, Rattle, and RHINO. He’s a poetry editor at Radius. He lives and writes in Cambridge.

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Doug Rossinow

Doug Rossinow is Professor of History at Metro State University. His many books include Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America.

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