Priscilla Yamin is a Professor and the chair of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College and the author of American Marriage: A Political Institution (UPenn, 2012). She is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the historical and political development of marriage and family and its effects on notions of citizenship and equality.
April Anson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut who writes and teaches at the intersection of the environmental humanities, Indigenous and American studies, and political theory. She is a cofounder of the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, coauthor of Against the Ecofascist Creep, and her research has appeared in boundary 2, Resilience, Environmental History, Western American Literaure, and others.
Bruno Seraphin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut who works on anti-colonial approaches to environmental knowledge, practice, and policy in the U.S. West. Seraphin is also a filmmaker and social movement theorist. His book-in-progress examines the politics of wildfire and prescribed burning in Karuk aboriginal territory in the unsettled colonial present.
Corey D. Fields is an associate professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. His research explores the role of identity – at both the individual and collective level – in structuring social life, and contributes to the ongoing analysis of the relationship between identity, experience, and culture. Fields is the author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African-American Republicans (2016, University of California Press).
Biko Koenig is a Residential Fellow of the Violence, Inequality, and Power Lab at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, and also Associate Professor of Government & Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College. Biko is working on an ethnographic book project that follows the 2020 Trump reelection campaign from his perspective as a volunteer and is the author of the forthcoming book Worker Centered (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History at Duke University. Her book Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (UNC Press, 2024) examines the social and cultural history of Latinos in the post-World War II South. Her second book project is a history of Latino/as and far-right politics.
Micah English is a PhD student at Yale University. English researches Black political behavior and social movements and their intersections with the politics of gender and sexuality. Her dissertation examines partisan differences in appeals to identity politics, and the impact of these appeals on conservatives and liberals.
Loren Kajikawa is an associate professor of History and Culture and the chair of the music program at The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. His main area of research and teaching is American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics. His book Sounding Race in Rap Songs (University of California Press, 2015) explores the relationship between rap music’s backing tracks and racial representation.
Minali Aggarwal is a Ph.D. student in the Departments of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation research demonstrates how racialized data and statistical evidence generate new political formations and alignments, often subverting the radical demands of Black social movements.
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times and political analyst for CBS News. He covers history and politics. Prior to the Times, Jamelle was chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. And before that, he was a staff writer at The Daily Beast and held fellowships at The American Prospect and The Nation magazine. He attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated with a degree in political and social thought, and government.
Joseph Lowndes is a professor of political science and a scholar of race, populism, and right-wing politics. He has published extensively on populism, presidential politics, political culture, and social movements and has written frequently in public venues including The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Dissent. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker Magazine, The Guardian, and other publications; and he has been interviewed on National Public Radio, MSNBC, BBC Radio 4, France 24, and Al Jazeera among others.
Cristina Beltrán is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her most recent book, Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press), explores the American right’s deep antipathy toward nonwhite migrants from Mexico and Latin America and examines why many in the Republican Party experience acts of cruelty against migrants as a form of democratic pleasure.
Aslı Iğsız is an Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research interests include political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation and forced migration, and cultural policy. Her first book Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange was published in 2018. Currently she is working on a new project on the notion of fascist utopias in the contemporary world context.
Laura Pulido is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon who works at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies, especially Chicanx Studies. Pulido’s research explores how the processes of racial, class and gender hierarchy shape places and how places inform racial and economic processes.
William Callison is a is a Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. His research draws from political and critical theory to explore dilemmas of neoliberal capitalism, democratic crisis, political subjectivity, conspiracy theory, climate change politics, and far-right nationalist movements in Europe and the Americas.
Sangay Mishra is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University. He specializes in immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism, and racial and ethnic politics. His work engages with political participation of South Asian immigrants in the United States as well as countries of origin with a particular focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. He has also been analyzing the experiences of Muslim American communities with law enforcement agencies.
Eddie Kim is a writer, reporter and multimedia journalist living in San Francisco, California. Kim covers a spectrum of issues and subjects, from homelessness and race to art and food culture. Primarily, Kim writes about the intersection of culture, masculinity, and violence, both physical and emotional.
Y Thien Nguyen received his PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, specializing in the socio-historical study of modern Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora. He is a Research Associate for the US-Vietnam Research Center at the University of Oregon and a Teaching Fellow in South East Asian History at University of Leeds. His research encompasses a broad array of socio-political issues related to Asian American politics, the Indochinese refugee experience, and the Vietnam War.
Anthony Christian Ocampois Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons and The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. He is an Academic Director of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity and the co-host of the podcast “Professor-ing.”
Ellen Feng is an undergraduate at the University of Maryland double majoring in History and Government and Politics. Her research focuses on Asian history and Asian American politics.
Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project is a youth-led, intergenerational collective of volunteers dedicated to combatting right-wing mis/disinformation on WeChat and providing political empowerment among the Chinese diaspora. The members from the collective who wrote the book chapter are: Dora Guo, Sabrina Lin, Sunnie Liu, Katelyn Monaco, Oriana Tang, and Wun Wong.
