Jennifer M. Chacón is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She is the author of an immigration law textbook and of numerous works on immigration, criminal law, constitutional law and citizenship. Her research on the intersection of criminal and immigration law enforcement has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
Michaeline Crichlow is a Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and Sociology. Her most recent publication is a coedited volume, Race and Rurality in the Global Economy (2018, 2019). In 2009 she authored with Patricia Northover, Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively entitled: “Vistas Violence and The Politics of Place,” and a co-edited volume on “Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness.” From the vistas of the Caribbean and the Global South, her research focuses on postcolonial development, racializations, and migrants in the world economy.
Nicholas De Genova is the Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He previously held teaching appointments at King’s College London, Stanford, Columbia, and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), and most recently, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017), co-editor of Roma Migrants in the European Union: Un/Free Mobility (2019), and co-editor of Europa/Crisis: Nuevas Palabras Claves en “la Crisis” en y de “Europa” (2021).
Mark Driscoll is Professor of East Asian and Global Studies at UNC, Chapel Hill where I teach courses on East Asian intellectual and environmental history, critical race studies, and decolonial theory. He has published three books from Duke University Press. His third book (published in December 2020 again from Duke) is called The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Ecological protection in Asia, and identifies white capitalist supremacy as the main driver of the shift to the Anthropocene and global climate breakdown. popular responses in Japan and China in the 19th century to white supremacy. His new project looks at slavery and neoslavery in the Americas through the lens of what he calls “world archeology.”
Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands. His most recent book is entitled Doing the Right Thing, and introduces a value based approach to economics. With his associates he is developing the so-called Quality Impact Monitor. Professor Klamer gives workshops all over the world and has held various political positions in his home country.
As Research Manager for the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center, a project of the North Carolina Justice Center, Patrick McHugh strives to demystify public policy, support community organizers, and unrig our economic system. He works at the intersection between received wisdom and a future we’re still trying to imagine, where challenging old power structures is key to creating a more just world. He also has helped build more than a few landfills.
Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. Among his books related to the topic are: The Darker Side of the Renaissance. Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995, Chinese and Spanish translation 2015); Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of Decoloniality (2007, translated into German, French, Swedish, Rumanian and Spanish). Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000, translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Korean); and The Idea of Latin America (2006, translated into Spanish, Korean and Italian). On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, co-authored with Catherine Walsh, was published in 2018 and The Politics of Decolonial Investigations, is scheduled for June of 2021.
Claudia Milian is Professor of Romance Studies and Director of the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. She is the author of LatinX (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Her research areas focus on theories of LatinX contemporaneity; Global South studies; environmental humanities; Central American and Mesoamerican migrations; semiotics of disorientation; and LatinX experimental arts and poetics.
Radhika Mongia is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, Toronto. Her research is situated at the intersection of history, law, and political theory and explores questions of migration, citizenship, and state formation. In addition to essays in journals such as Cultural Studies, Gender and History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Public Culture, she is the author of Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State (Duke University Press, 2018 and Permanent Black Press, 2019).
Minh-Hoang Nguyen is a photographer from Hanoi, Vietnam. He looks for intimacy, identity, and memory through self-portraiture, documentary, and street photography. His recent work has been focusing on the theme of representation, trauma and healing, especially on the topic of the Vietnam War. He earned his MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University. His personal mission is to become as gentle as he can be, both as a human being and as a documentarian.
Dirk Philipsen is a political economist and economic historian who teaches Public Policy, Ethics, and History at Duke. His latest book publication is The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and what to do About It (Princeton 2015/17). His work centers around historical explorations of the nature and logic of capitalism, and, more specifically, the role of economic growth, sustainability, and prospects for an economy organized around wellbeing of people and planet.
Steven Ratuva is Professor and Director of the Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury. He was winner of the 2020 Metge Medal, New Zealand’s highest award for social science excellence. He was Fulbright senior fellow at UCLA, Duke University and Georgetown University. He is the chief editor of the Journal, Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research.
Antonia Santolaya studied fine arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and engraving at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Her most recent books include Del Trastevere al Paraíso [From Trastevere to Paradise] (Reservoir Books, 2020) and Feminismo para principiantes [Feminism for Beginners] (Ediciones B, 2018) . A former fellow from the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Santolaya has received an Apel.les Mestre Award; an Honorable Mention from Norma Ediciones México; and won the best Illustrated Album Award from the Biblioteca Insular Gran Canaria.
Nandita Sharma is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press, 2020).
Maziki Thame, is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona. Her research focuses on questions about how gender, race and class shape experiences of citizenship and how liberation is pursued in the Caribbean modern. Thame’s publications include: “Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle Class Politics in Jamaica,” in Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice, edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, and “Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism,” in Small Axe 54.
Kathi Weeks is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is author of Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP, 1998, re-issued by Verso in 2018) and The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011), and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell, 2000).
Marisa Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Her research centers on practice-led alternatives to the corporate food regime in the Caribbean. She has studied Cuba’s national food sovereignty project and is currently asking questions such as who is included, who is excluded, and whether and how Cuba’s so-called ‘alternative food network’ is hindered by long-term racial inequalities in access to land. Marisa is working with colleagues on a project entitled ‘Living Histories of Sugar in the West Indies and Scotland’ (2020–2022), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). Most recently, Marisa has been developing a project with academics and farmers from Jamaica and the State of the African Diaspora that uses a participatory story map to increase recognition of and respect for Afrodescendant seed savers in Jamaica who have maintained agrobiodiversity since the time of slavery.
