James Adam Redfield is associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University and visiting associate professor in Jewish and European Civilization at the University of Chicago. He writes mainly on rabbinic literature, with a focus on rabbinic theories of law and culture, ethnography, travel, and narrative. His monograph, Adventures of Rabbah […]

Nafis Hasan received his PhD in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology from Tufts University in 2019 and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar (2019–2021) in David Kaplan’s lab at Tufts’ Department of Biomedical Engineering. He currently works in the labor movement and is an Associate Faculty member at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His research interests […]

Mark Firmani is a JD student at Yale Law School and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on private international law, legal theory, and the relationship between law and culture, with a particular interest in law and narrative. His dissertation examines how contemporary Iraqi fiction written in Arabic […]

Natalie Suzelis holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research synthesizes environmental and economic history with cultural theory in order to investigate capitalist transition from the early modern period to the present. She is a contributing editor of Uneven Earth and her research has been published in Shakespeare Studies, Studies in English Literature, […]

Alírio Karina has a PhD in History of Consciousness, with designated emphases in Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. A scholar of African and Black social and political thought, their teaching and research engages the fields of feminist studies, museum studies, anthropology, literature, history, political economy, […]

Amy Schiller researches, writes, and consults at the intersection of political theory and philanthropy. As faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and at Brooklyn College, Amy teaches on race, sexuality, and gender in politics. Her writing for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast and The Chronicle of Philanthropy has covered campus discourse on Israel-Palestine, funding the Movement for Black […]

Alyssa Battistoni is currently a PhD candidate in political theory at Yale University; she holds an MSc from Oxford University. Her dissertation addresses the place of nature in twentieth-century political thought, read through feminist political economy; more broadly, her research interests are in social and political theory, political economy, environmental politics, feminist theory, science studies, […]

Timothy L. Brownlee holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Humanities from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio). His research focuses on German idealism, in particular the writings of G.W.F. Hegel, 19th and 20th century European philosophy, and social and political […]

Jeffrey Escoffier writes on the history of sexuality, LGBT history and public health. He is also the author a short biography of John Maynard Keynes and editor of a book on the work of choreographer Mark Morris. From 1980 to 1988, he was the executive editor of Socialist Review (Berkeley) and from 1988 to 1992 served […]

Laura Slatkin received her B.A. and Ph.D in Classics from Harvard University and her M.A. from Cambridge University.  Her research and teaching interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry, as well as wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity and anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world.  She has published on […]