Dr. Susan Beth Rottmann obtained her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Faculty at Özyeğin University in Istanbul where she is researching forced migration between Turkey in Europe as the primary investigator of an EU Horizon 2020 research grant called RESPOND - Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. Dr. Rottmann is also finalizing an ethnography of ethics and belonging for German-Turkish return migrants to be published with Berghahn Books.
Alice Feldman lectures in the UCD School of Sociology, convenes a new masters in Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies (www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com), and chairs the UCD Parity Studios artist residency committee for the College of Social Science and Law. Through experiments at the intersections of aesthetics, epistemologies and pedagogies, she cultivates decolonial praxes to evoke encounters that inspire ways of imagining, being and doing ‘otherwise’. For two decades she also has done research, advisory and volunteer work with Irish civic/community groups and agencies involved in anti-racism, interculturalism and integration works.
Christian Flaugh (MA Middlebury College-Vermont and Paris, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of French, Africana, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at SUNY-University at Buffalo, who also teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance. He co-founded and co-coordinates the Humanities Institute Performance Research Workshop, a North American hub of scholarly and artistic activity arising across multi-faceted concepts and expressions of performance. He is the author of Operation Freak: Narrative, Identity, and the Spectrum of Bodily Abilities (2012), and co-editor of Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt (forthcoming in Brill’s Caribbean Series). He also has articles published in journals such as L’Esprit Créateur, Francosphères, Journal of Haitian Studies, and Theatre Topics. In 2013 Flaugh edited essays from a centennial celebration of Aimé Césiare, published in Formes poétiques contemporaines (2014); he also co-edited “Disability in French and Francophone Worlds” (2016) for Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
Hagar Kotef is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought, at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of Movement and the Ordering of Freedom (Duke UP, 2015).
Karen Little is a PhD candidate in English at Duke and works for the Representing Migration Humanities Lab. Her dissertation focuses on mid-20th century US fiction featuring racialized homespaces. Her interest in migration developed as she discovered the frequency with which narratives about home turn into narratives about expulsion or departure from home. She has a BA in English, an MA in Secondary Education, and an MA in English from University of Kentucky.
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018) and co-editor of Between Deleuze and Foucault (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). His publications can be downloaded at http://du.academia.edu/thomasnail
Eric H. Thomas is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on political ecology and 21st Century resource frontiers, particularly the impact of new industries on traditional livelihoods, communities, and the environment. His doctoral dissertation examines the rise of salmon aquaculture in coastal Patagonia.
