Fernanda Barros dos Santos is Adjunct Professor of the Nucleus of Public Policy Studies in Human Rights at the Federal University of Rios de Janeiro.
Kathryn Bedecarré is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Bates College. She received her PhD in Black Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. He has published in the areas of contemporary art and performance, critical race theory, and queer of color critique and is the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (NYU Press, 2018) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (NYU Press, 2013). After the Party is the recipient of both the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the 2019 Erroll Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research and A Race So Different also received the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from ATHE.
Aimee Meredith Cox is an anthropologist, writer, movement artist, and critical ethnographer. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Anthropology and African American Studies Departments at Yale University. Aimee’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America and a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing. She is also the editor of the volume, Gender: Space (MacMillan, 2018). She performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances in public and private space in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
Dorinne Kondo is Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and the former Director of Asian American Studies. Kondo is an anthropologist, Performance Studies scholar, playwright and dramaturg. She is the author of award-winning books, including Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace; About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater; and the recent Worldmaking: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity. Kondo’s full-length plays include (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct, winner of the “We Don’t Need No Stinking Dramas” national comedy playwriting award; her relationship comedy But Can He Dance? was produced at Asian American Repertory Theatre. Kondo’s comic drama Seamless received readings at the New York Theatre Workshop and the Lark and is published in Worldmaking.
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is chair and associate professor of public policy and political economy in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Janelle Rodriques is an assistant professor of English at Auburn University, Alabama, where she specializes in Caribbean and Black Atlantic fiction. She is the author of Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature: Moving Through the Margins (Routledge 2019).
Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosimbom holds a PhD in African Literature from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He was a 2019 ARUA-Mellon Fellow (University of Ghana, Legon) where he researched on “Mobility and Sociality in Africa’s Emerging Urban.” He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for African Studies (CAS), University of Cape Town, researching on “Entanglements, Mobility and Improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands.” His research interests include identity dynamics, multiple-layered identity formations and performances, mobility, postcolonial studies and cosmopolitanism, coloniality, decoloniality and pluriversality.
Djemila Zeneidi is a research director at the French National Centre of Scientific Research in Paris (France). She is interested in homelessness, international migration, subcultures, feminisms and critical race studies. Her publications include Les sdf et la ville, géographie du savoir survivre (Bréal, 2002), Femmes/Fraises import/Export (Presses universitaires de France, 2013) and Gender, Temporary Work and Migration Management (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2017). She has been published in Espace géographique, Espaces et Sociétés, Terrain, Urban Geography, Cultural Sociology.
