Nandita Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is active in, including No Borders movements and those struggling for the planetary commons. 

She is a Professor of the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press, 2020).

Radhika Mongia is associate professor of sociology at York University. Her research interests include Feminist, Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Political and Historical Sociology; Study of "Transnational" and "Global" Processes. In her work, she explores issues of migration, citizenship, and state formation. She is the author of Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State (Duke University Press, 2018 and Permanent Black Press, 2019).

Banu Bargu is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research brings together political theory, anthropology, philosophy, global history, and Middle Eastern studies around questions of the body, power, violence, resistance practices, authoritarianism and exceptional regimes, carcerality and democracy. As a political theorist, her main areas of focus are modern and contemporary political thought, poststructuralist and critical theory. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), and the forthcoming Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford University Press, In Press)

Andreas Kalyvas is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. His work focuses on democratic theory and the history of political thought from ancient Greek and Roman to modern and contemporary continental political theory. His research interests are situated in the intersection of politics, history, and jurisprudence with a strong emphasis on the relationship between popular sovereignty and constituent power; disobedience, resistance, sedition, and revolutionary breaks; the norm and the exception; emergency rule and dictatorship; state theory and oligarchic power; citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migration. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, Tyranny Legalized: Republicanism, Dictatorship, and the Enemy Within.

Carlos Forment is Professor of Sociology and Politics at The New School for Social Research. He is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, the Janey Program in Latin American Studies, and Founder and Co-director of the graduate minor: Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism. His work focuses on the politics of citizenship and democratic practices in Latin America. He is the Author of Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru, volume I (University of Chicago Press, 2003, 2nd edtion, 2013) and La Formacion de la Sociedad Civil y la Democracia en el Peru (Editorial Universidad Pontifica Catolica del Peru, 2012).

Zachary Levenson is Assistant Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at the Florida International University. He is an ethnographer of race and class in postcolonial democracies. His first book, Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press, 2022), is a long-term ethnography of land occupations in South African cities after apartheid. It studies the relationship between housing delivery and mass evictions in contemporary Cape Town, developing a novel theory of the democratic capitalist state in the postcolonial world. He is currently researching the independent wing of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s and 80s.

Romy Opperman is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Her research bridges Africana, continental, decolonial, environmental, and feminist philosophy to foreground issues of racism and colonialism for environmental ethics and justice. Her current book project, titled, Groundings: Black Ecologies of Freedom, develops the concepts of ‘racist environments’ and ‘ecological freedom,’ and asks how established topics within environmental and climate justice are transformed when considered from the radical philosophical traditions of the Black diaspora.

Joe Bryan is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center. His work focuses on the politics of indigeneity in the Americas, with particular attention to questions of land, territory, and rights. He is the co-author of Weaponizing Maps Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and papers on participatory mapping and indigenous rights that draw from his research with indigenous communities in the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico. He has also participated in mapping projects with indigenous communities in the United States and Central America as an independent consultant.

Vanessa E. Thompson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies and Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen’s University at Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist and her scholarship and teaching explores the relation between state violence, racial capitalism, politics of (un-)breathing, black transnational resistances and abolitionist feminist worldmaking. She co-edited, with Daniel Loick, Abolitionismus: Ein Reader, and her monograph, Black Socialities: Urban Resistance and the Struggle Beyond Recognition in Paris, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.

Vincent Lloyd is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, where he directs the Villanova Political Theology Project. He specializes in political theology and African American religious thought and his research focuses on questions about the intersection of religious and political ideas using interdisciplinary methods. He is the author several monographs including Black Natural Law (Oxford University Press, 2016), Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology (Fordham University Press, 2017), In Defense of Charisma (Columbia University Press, 2018), and Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022). He is also the co-author Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons including Race and Secularism in America (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She also serves as Vice President and Vice Chair of the Board at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, DC. She is the author of numerous articles published on topics ranging from the history of archaeology in Palestine to the question of race and genomics today. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago Press, 2001), The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (Verso Books, 2022)

A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York. He researches different aspects of genocide. Before coming to City College, he was the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007) and The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021). He has also edited three anthologies on genocide and colonialism: Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children (2004), Colonialism and Genocide (2007), and Empire, Colony Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (2008).

Sudipta Kaviraj is a specialist in intellectual history and Indian politics. He works on two fields of intellectual history: Indian social and political thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern Indian literature and cultural production. His other fields of interest and research include the historical sociology of the Indian state, and some aspects of Western social theory. He received his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to joining Columbia University, he taught at the Department of Political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has also taught Political Science at JNU, and was an Agatha Harrison Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. Kaviraj’s books include The Imaginary Institution of India (2010) Civil Society: History and Possibilities co-edited with Sunil Khilnani (2001), Politics in India (edited) (1999), and The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India (1995).

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York; Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities; and one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. Povinelli’s writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late-liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This potential theory has unfolded primarily from within a sustained relationship with Indigenous colleagues in north Australia and across five books, numerous essays, and six films with the Karrabing Film Collective. Her recent publications include Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016) and Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (2021) as well as Routes/Worlds (2022).

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo is a professor and senior researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Since her undergraduate days, she has combined her academic work with feminist activism and with projects in radio, video, and journalism. Her academic work has promoted indigenous and women’s rights in Latin America. Her research interest covers indigenous studies, legal and political anthropology, decolonial feminisms, and activist research. Hernández Castillo is the author of Multiple InJusticies: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America (University of Arizona Press, 2018) and the coeditor of Transcontinental Dialogues Activist Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico, and Australia (University of Arizona Press, 2019), among other books.

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. He was professor and executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (2010-2022) in Kampala, where he established an inter-disciplinary doctoral program in Social Studies. He specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation. His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, the history and theory of human rights, and the politics of knowledge production. Mamdani is the author of Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (2020); Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2009); Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror (2004); When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda (2001); Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996), which was awarded the Herskovitz Prize of the African Studies Association.

Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. His research is in the history of modern political and social thought, especially the political theory of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial presents. He is the author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience. Before coming to The New School, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy, and taught at Ashoka and Columbia Universities.