Jessica Cattelino studies indigenous sovereignty and everyday American political processes and imaginations. Her book High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty (2008) won the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Her current research and a collaborative museum exhibition examine the cultural politics of water in the Florida Everglades, and she participates in an NSF Long-term Ecological Research network. She is associate professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies and affiliate in American Indian Studies at UCLA, where she is also Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Sung Choi is assistant professor in History at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her most recent publication is titled, The French of Algeria and Decolonization, Bringing the Settler Colony Home, was published in December 2015 as part of the Palgrave Macmillan Press Cambridge Series in Imperial and Postcolonial Studies. She has taught at multiple campuses and has held a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, France. She received her doctorate in History at UCLA in 2007.
Muriam Haleh Davis is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During the 2015-2016 academic year she was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research interests focus on development, decolonization and race and her current book project studies how the postwar reinvention of a market economy influenced prevailing ideas of race and national identity in Algeria. A related article, entitled, "‘The Transformation of Man’ in French Algeria: Economic Planning and the Postwar Social Sciences, 1958–62," recently appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History.
Pamela Grieman received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Southern California. She serves as the Acting Editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the Publications Manager of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center, and instructor at Los Angeles City College. She worked closely with Patrick Wolfe in his capacity as special-issue editor of the journal and as editor of his 2016 book, The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies.
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory. He has held many visiting professorships around the world including The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Harvard. He works on the comparative anthropology of nationalism and racism, as well as on the Lebanese Diaspora. His recent books are Alter-Politics (2015) and Is Racism an Environmental Threat? (2017).
Cheryl I. Harris is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law. One of the founding faculty of the Critical Race Studies Program at the Law School, and currently its faculty co-director, Professor Harris is the author of groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Critical Race Theory, including Whiteness as Property (Harvard Law Review). Harris’ work considers how race shapes material and symbolic systems and has particularly been concerned with issues of educational access as well as race and equality from a global perspective. Her current work includes a major revision of the seminal text, Race, Racism and American Law, by the late Derrick Bell (with Justin Hansford) and an investigation of the relationship between race, debt and property.
David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, works primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. His most recent books are Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (Dublin: Field Day, 2008); Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre is (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). He is currently completing a collection of essays on aesthetics, representation and race and a book on poetry and violence. His Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 was published by Shearsman Books in the UK and New Writers’ Press, Dublin, 2012.
Saree Makdisi is professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His most recent book is Reading William Blake. He is presently working on a book called Palestine and the Psychogeography of Denial.
Jemima Pierre is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the James Coleman African Studies Center, and as Chair of the Master’s in African Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (*Winner of the 2014 Elliot Skinner Book Award in Africanist Anthropology*).
Aziz Rana is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development, with a particular focus on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. His publications include The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2010), which situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion.
Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies, UCLA. Her research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network Racial Violence Hub (RVHub). Her most recent publications include: (2015). Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and (2014) Co-editor with Suvendrini Perera. At The Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. Her works include How to Accept German Reparations (2014); coeditor, The Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium (2013); editor, Clifford Geertz in Morocco (2010); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005); editor, The Living Medina in the Maghrib: The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture, and History (2001); and The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village(1998).
Shannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center and an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico and in the U.S with indigenous women migrants on issues of indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, neoliberalism, gender, violence, and social justice. Her current research project is called States of Violence: Indigenous Women Migrants and Human Rights in the Era of Neoliberal Multicriminalism.
Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor of History at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and settler colonialism. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), and The Settler Colonial Present (2015). Lorenzo has co-edited theRoutledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (2017) and is Editor in Chief of Settler Colonial Studies.
