Samar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. From July 2017 to July 2019, she was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is broadly concerned with militarism, policing, race, and geopolitics in East Africa, particularly in relation to the so-called “War on Terror.” Her work has appeared in Transforming Anthropology, Africa is a Country, Jacobin, Intercepted, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, and Pambazuka News.
Diana Murtaugh Coleman is currently a Lecturer in Religion within the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. Her current manuscript on Guantánamo Bay is under revision, and new projects include an analysis of the interplay between secular and religious responses to climate change and migration, and a forthcoming article on the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture.
Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching engage issues of security expertise and militarization, states and sovereignty, and surveillance and imperialism during the second half of the 20th century. He is currently at work on his dissertation project, Veins of Repression: US-Israeli Covert Arms and Counterinsurgency in Central America.
Camilla Fojas is Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She has written widely on race, empire, and borders and is currently working on a book project about the mediations and infrastructure of border surveillance along the United States–Mexico border. Her most recent books include Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2017), and Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture (Routledge, 2017).
Renée Michelle Ragin is a PhD Candidate in Literature at Duke University, where she studies the cultural memory of the Lebanese civil war. She has published in Mashriq and Mahjar and has an article forthcoming in The Literary Encyclopedia. Prior to Duke, Renee was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, serving in Saudi Arabia and Washington, D.C. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Harvard with a concentration in History and Literature and a certificate in Spanish in 2010.
Suzanne Oboler is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College- CUNY. Her research, teaching and publications focus on human rights in the Americas. In addition to various articles and book chapters on race, citizenship, immigration and belonging, she is the author of Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, and editor of several anthologies and 2 encyclopedias on U.S. Latinxs. In 2005, she co-edited Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks and Afro Latinos with Anani Dzidizenyo. In 2001, she became Founding Editor of the journal, Latino Studies (2001-2012), and in 2011, was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at PUC-Rio in Brazil.
Paul Ortiz is director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and associate professor of history at the University of Florida. His book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is the recipient of the 2018 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. He is also the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Blood Election of 1920. Ortiz is currently writing Settler Colonialism and the ‘War on Terror’: 1492 to the Present, which will be published by Beacon Press.
Giulia Riccò is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her doctorate in Romance Studies (Italian and Portuguese) in 2019 at Duke University. Her research focuses on Italian and Brazilian literature and intellectual history, with an emphasis on fascism, migration, and autobiography. Her scholarship has appeared in the journals Forum Italicum, Mester, and the edited volume Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis.
Jeong Eun Annabel We is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research examines military occupation and political mobilization in the transpacific. Her work appears in the anthology Decolonizing the University (2018) and the journals ACTA Koreana, GLQ, and Bandung: Journal of the Global South.
Daniel Widener teaches Modern American history, with a focus on expressive culture and political radicalism. He began his educational career at the Echo Park-Silverlake Peoples’ Childcare Center. He studied at Berkeley and New York University and teaches courses on Cuba, African American History, California, and the global history of the political left. Widener is the author of Black Arts West: culture and struggle in postwar Los Angeles and the co-author of Another University is Possible. He is currently at work on a book entitled Third Worlds Within: interethnic radicalism in 20th Century America. Widener is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur and is the manager of Red Star San Diego.
