Professor Safwan M. Masri is Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. In this role, he directs a number of Columbia’s global initiatives and is responsible for the development of an expanding network of Global… Continue Reading
Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The… Continue Reading
Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chairperson of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute and Director of the Global South Center. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives that theorizes social life through five extractive scenes of… Continue Reading
Bruno Bosteels is professor in LAIC and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His research covers a wide range of topics in literature, culture, and politics in modern Latin America as well as contemporary philosophy and political theory. He… Continue Reading
Juan Obarrio is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a PhD from Columbia University (2007). Juan Obarrio works in the fields of critical theory and political anthropology, focusing on issues of state, democracy, law, violence,… Continue Reading
Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School University. He served at different points in time… Continue Reading
Ivonne Del Valle is Associate Professor of Colonial Studies at U.C. Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004, and before returning to the Bay Area in 2009, she taught at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching… Continue Reading
Professor Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory in the Sociology Department at the New School for Social Research. He has taught at L’École des hautes études and Sciences Po in Paris, as well as at the… Continue Reading
Nada Moumtaz received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research stands at the intersection of Islamic legal studies, the anthropology of Islam, and studies of capitalism, and spans the… Continue Reading
Soha Bayoumi is a lecturer in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She received her PhD in 2012 from Sciences Po Paris in political philosophy, and works on the question of justice at the intersection of political philosophy, intellectual… Continue Reading