Reinhold Martin is Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is a member of Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society as well as the Committee… Continue Reading
Aurelie Vialette specializes in 19th-century Iberian cultural studies (popular music, journalistic discourse, archival studies, and mass and working class organizations). She conducts research in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, and Galician. Her first book, “Intellectual Philanthropists: the Seduction of the Masses” is… Continue Reading
Banu Bargu is Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Banu Bargu’s main area of specialization is political theory, especially modern and contemporary political thought, with a thematic focus on theories of sovereignty, resistance, and biopolitics. Her research… Continue Reading
Akeel Bilgrami got a first degree in English Literature from Bombay University but defected to philosophy because he found the former too hard. He went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and there got another Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy,… Continue Reading
Professor Mehta has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke(Cornell University… Continue Reading
Claudia Pozzana studied Chinese at the University of Ca’Foscari , in Venezia. She graduated in 1973, then was in China for long periods, the first time from 1974-76 for two full academic years. She has been a researcher of Chinese… Continue Reading
Alessandro Russo is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy.
Claire Fontaine lives in Paris. Her “assistants” are Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill, an Italian-British artist duo. With a readymade name—taken from a popular brand of French stationery—Claire Fontaine also describes herself as a readymade artist who finds herself working… Continue Reading
Katherine Franke is the Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Lawand is the faculty director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute… Continue Reading
Brandon M. Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University. He earned a PhD with university distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University, where he was also a… Continue Reading