Distinguished Professor of History, Gender and Women's Studies, and Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An accomplished author, she is best-known for her award-winning book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. As a prominent Black feminist activist and scholar, she has received prestigious accolades, including the Angela Y. Davis Award and the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Ransby is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a former president to the National Women's Studies Association. Her work is widely published, and she is recognized as a leading figure in higher education.

Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She specializes in legal anthropology and previously worked as an immigration and asylum lawyer. She holds a JD from American University, Washington College of Law, and a PhD from Stanford University. Dr. Osanloo is the author of several notable works, including Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran and The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran. Her research examines Iranian women's rights and the impact of sanctions on everyday life. For more information and to access her published articles, visit her website: https://arzooosanloo.com/

Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her research focuses on the Palestinian experience, both inside and outside of historic Palestine, examining practices of government, humanitarianism, policing, displacement, and citizenship. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-67, Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics; and co-editor (with Miriam Ticktin) of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care.

Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is one of the founders of the field of transnational feminist studies, and known for her prolific work on transnational feminism, cultural theory, feminist theory, and her extensive research on post-colonialism, South Asian cultural studies, mobility and modernity, NGOs, human rights, and citizenship. She has authored, edited, and contributed to numerous articles, essays, and books. Notably, she recently co-edited the special Socialtext issue Security from the South and has forthcoming works, including an essay called Security Regimes: Transnational and Imperial Entanglements, for the Annual Review of Anthropology, a co-written piece in The Routlege Companion to Intersectionalities, and an essay entitled GBV and Postcolonial India: Transnational Media, Hindutva, and Muslim Racializations in The Cunning of Gender (Duke UP, 2023).

Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Michigan, 2009), co-editor with Lara Nielsen of Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback 2015), and Latinx Theatre in Times of Neoliberalism (Northwestern University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a monograph on Abdoh and the development of queer theory. She is the former President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Performance artist and cultural researcher. Marlon is a PhD candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and has an MSc in Development Studies, at Brown University. Marlon also has a double–majored BA in Theatre Arts and Environmental Studies from Lewis and Clark College. Marlon's interests include colonialism and decolonization; decolonial practices; art-based research; and helping to expand the dominant political imagination to include ecosystems and nonhuman life as part of our communities, for both our health and the wellbeing of the planet.

Professor at New York University where she is Kriser Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Media, Culture & History, and Co-Director of the Center for Disability Studies. Her research over three decades has focused on cultural activists working on reproductive rights, Indigenous media makers, and disabled artists and advocates. She is author/editor of four prize-winning books; Disability Worlds (Duke University Press), co-authored with anthropologist Rayna Rapp, will be out in Spring 2024. She is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship as well as a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford, Pew, and other awards. She is also President of the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation.

Professor, cultural critic, and theorist who teaches media studies in the Program in Literature at Duke University. Her research on film, social media, and social movements in the Middle East has been published by Stanford University Press, Syracuse University Press, Duke University Press and in WIRED magazine, The Hill, Salon.com, The Observer, and the Wall Street Journal. She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.

Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for and exchange between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013), an ethnography of the production of U.S. news during the second Palestinian intifada. She also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank, attending to struggles over and through media, water, space, and protest. Working with youth at the Lajee Center, in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, she has co-produced two bilingual children’s books, including The Aida Alphabet Book (2014). She is co-director of the documentary “Take My Pictures For Me” (2016). She is the president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (University of California Press, 2023; Yoda Press, 2024) and numerous academic articles. She participates in discussions on gender and mobility, citizenship, and security and militarism in South Asia through op-eds, podcasts, organizing, and public talks. She is currently at work on a children’s book on borders and researching the gendered labors of soldiering in postcolonial India.