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Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana is Professor of Law and Government at Boston College and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.

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Keegan Lester

Keegan Lester’s first collection of poetry, this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all i had so i drew it, was selected by Mary Ruefle for the 2016 Slope Editions Book Prize and will be out in February 2017. He is the poetry editor and cofounder of the journal Souvenir Lit. He has taught writing workshops in Morgantown, West Virginia, and mentors young writers across the United States. To order his book, find tour dates, and other goodies, check out his website, www.keeganlester.com.

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Ezra Glinter

Ezra Glinter is editor of Have I Got a Story for You, an anthology of Yiddish fiction in translation. His writing has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications.

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Kenneth A. Taylor

Kenneth A. Taylor (1954–2019) was the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s interdisciplinary program in Symbolic Systems. He was the co-founder and co-host of the podcast Philosophy Talk for fifteen years and was author of many books, including Reference and the Rational Mind and Truth and Meaning.

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Peter de Marneffe

Peter de Marneffe is professor of philosophy at Arizona State University.

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Drucilla Cornell

Drucilla Cornell is professor of women's studies, political science, and law at Rutgers University.

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Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is Alice McKean Young Regents Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas and Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia.

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Donald H. Regan

Donald H. Regan is the William W. Bishop Jr. Collegiate Professor of Law, and also professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan.

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Philip L. Quinn

Philip L. Quinn was John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

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Analicia Sotelo

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Robert T. Chase

Robert T. Chase is associate professor of history at Stony Brook University.  He is the author of We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners Rights in Postwar America (UNC, JPP, 2020).  He is also the editor of Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (UNC Press, JPP, 2019). At Stony Brook University, he organized the 2015 conference “From the Color Line to the Carceral State: Prisons, Policing, and Surveillance.”  As a public intellectual, his work on the history of prison, policing, and state violence has been featured on national media programs through radio, newspapers, and television (MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Newsweek, the Washington Post, Black Perspectives, the Brian Lehrer Show, the Joy Cardin Show).  

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sam sax

sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes. His second book, Bury It, will be out on Wesleyan University Press in 2018. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and the Michener Center, where he served as editor-in-chief of Bat City Review, and is a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan is the author of two collections of poetry—Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Ten Burnt Lakes (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2017)—as well as a collection of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award, an NEA Literature Fellowship, among other honors. In 2015 Donovan was awarded a Creative Capital grant for Inheritance, a chamber opera he’s developing with the artist Ligia Bouton, soprano Susan Narucki and the composer Lei Liang. 

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Ariel White

Ariel White is Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT.

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Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith is the author of seven books of poetry, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets and finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Gotta Go Gotta Flow, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Smith’s next book, Incendiary Art, will be published by Northwestern University Press in February 2017. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

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Amanda DeMarco

Amanda DeMarco is a writer and translator of French and German literature and philosophy. She has been the recipient of a year-long writing grant from the city of Berlin, as well as fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell. 

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Michael Braunschweig

Michael Braunschweig was born in 1976 in Meuselwitz and lives in Berlin. His fiction has also recently appeared in English translation in Tin House.

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Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard. His latest book is The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. His Boston Review essay “Guns in the Family” was included in the 2019 Best American Essays, edited by Rebecca Solnit.

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Brishen Rogers

Brishen Rogers is an Associate Professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Prior to law school, he worked as a community organizer promoting living wage policies and affordable housing, and spent several years organizing workers as part of SEIU’s “Justice for Janitors” campaign.

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Victor Ray

Victor Ray is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Eleanor Hildebrandt

Eleanor Hildebrandt received a 2015–16 J. William Fulbright grant to work as an English Teaching Assistant in Nepal. Her work is not vetted or endorsed by the Fulbright Commission nor the U.S. Department of State.