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Kelly Lytle Hernández
Kelly Lytle Hernández is Associate Professor of History and Black Studies at UCLA. Her book Migra! explores the untold history of the U.S. Border Patrol.
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Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, political philosopher, and the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.
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Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator based in Brooklyn. His latest book is My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond.
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Gregory Jones-Katz
Gregory Jones-Katz is a cultural and intellectual historian. He is Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and his work has appeared in Intellectual History Review, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, and Derrida Today.
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Yue Hou
Yue Hou is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015-16, she was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and her BA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College.
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Diana Fu
Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society, with an emphasis on contemporary China. Fu earned her Ph.D. in Politics and her Ph.M. in International Development at Oxford University.
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Greg Distelhorst
Greg Distelhorst is an Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT in the Sloan School of Management. He is also an investigator with The Governance Project at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
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Todd Fredson
Todd Fredson is the author of the poetry collection, The Crucifix-Blocks (Tebot Bach, 2012) and a translator of Francophone West African literature. He has translated two collections of Josué Guébo’s poetry, My country, tonight (Action Books, 2016) and Think of Lampedusa (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). He is a doctoral candidate in the Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California and was a 2015-16 Fulbright Scholar in the Ivory Coast.
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Josué Guébo
Josué Guébo was born in 1972. A doctor of history and philosophy of the sciences, he is a professor at the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He served as president of the Ivorian Writer’s Association from 2011 to 2016. Guébo is the author of five poetry collections, children’s literature, a collection of short stories, and two books of scholarship, one that investigates objectivity and artificial intelligence, and another that considers African modernity and the evolving conditions of independence.
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Jordan Michael Smith
Jordan Michael Smith is the author of the Kindle Single, Humanity: How Jimmy Carter Lost an Election and Transformed the Post-Presidency.
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Ryo Yamaguchi
Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of The Refusal of Suitors, published by Noemi Press. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and Bennington Review, and his book reviews and other critical writings can be found in outlets such as Boston Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Newpages. He lives in Seattle where he works at Wave Books. Please visit him at plotsandoaths.com.
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Ingrid Norton
Ingrid Norton writes essays, fiction, and reportage. She received a PhD in American literature from Princeton.
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Cori A. Winrock
Cori A. Winrock is the author of the book of poems This Coalition of Bones (Kore Press, 2014), which received the Freund Prize for a first collection. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, West Branch, Crazyhorse, The Journal, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Winrock received her MFA from Cornell University. She is currently a PhD candidate and Vice Presidential fellow in the Creative Writing program at the University of Utah.
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Matthew Karp
Matthew Karp is associate professor of history at Princeton.
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Max Holleran
Max Holleran is a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University. His research examines tourism and property development at the periphery of the European Union. He writes frequently about architecture, urban planning, and visual culture in the Balkans and Spain.
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Garrett Felber
Garrett Felber is a historian and author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.
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Andrea Mammone
Andrea Mammone is lecturer in modern European history at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and co-editor of Dissent. His most recent book is The Paradox of Liberation.
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Avishai Margalit
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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b: william bearhart
b: william bearhart is a direct descendent of the St Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, a graduate from the Lo Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and currently works as a poker dealer in a small Wisconsin casino when not writing or editing. His work can be found in Bloom, North American Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly among others.
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Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz is author of Postcolonial Love Poem, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She is Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
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Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong is interim executive director and research scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center.
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