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Lisa K. Perdigao

Lisa K. Perdigao, Humanities Program Chair and Professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology, is author of From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation.

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Merlin Chowkwanyun

Merlin Chowkwanyun is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Fall 2015, he will be an Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

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Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study and author, most recently, of On the Judgment of History. She formerly chaired the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
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Damian Rogers

Damian Rogers is Poetry Editor at House of Anansi Press and author of the collections Dear Leader and Paper Radio.

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Justin Phillip Reed

Justin Phillip Reed’s first full-length collection of poetry, Indecency, won the National Book Award. He is a 2019 Ruth Lilly Fellow.

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Laura Premack

Laura Premack is Assistant Professor of History at Keene State College.

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Meghan O’Gieblyn

Meghan O’Gieblyn is an award-winning essayist. Her latest book is God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning.
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Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen teaches at Ryerson University. She is the author of Red Juice: Poems 1998–2008, As Long as Trees Last (2012)and Violet Energy Ingots (2016).

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Joseph Massad

Joseph Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia and author of Islam in Liberalism.

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Maleiha Malik

Maleiha Malik, Professor of Law at King’s College London, is editor of Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Past and Present.

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David Kutz-Marks

David Kutz-Marks is author of the forthcoming Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror.

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Akil Kumarasamy

Akil Kumarasamy is a recent Charles Pick South Asian Fellow in fiction. “At the Birthplace of Sound” is her first published story.

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Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Neon Vernacular. He is Professor of English at NYU.

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John Fenlon Hogan

John Fenlon Hogan’s poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Verse, and Colorado Review.

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David Hernandez

David Hernandez’s most recent collection, Hoodwinked, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize.

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Fermín Guzmán

Fermín Guzmán is a photographer based in Chimalhuacán, Mexico.

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Arthur Goldhammer

Arthur Goldhammer, a translator of more than 125 works in French, is an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard.

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Hafizah Geter

Hafizah Geter is a 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Drunken Boat, and Narrative Magazine.

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Mayanthi L. Fernando

Mayanthi L. Fernando, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, is author of The Republic Unsettled.

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Didier Fassin

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, is author of Enforcing Order.

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Nicolas Duvoux

Nicolas Duvoux is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université Paris Descartes.

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Lee Drutman

Lee Drutman is Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.

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Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin is editor-in-chief of The Culture We Deserve and author, most recently, of My Three Dads.

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Jenny Browne

Jenny Browne, Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, is author of The Second Reason and Dear Stranger.

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