Arati Kreibich (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 5th Congressional District. Arati Kreibich is a neuroscientist, a mother, a grassroots organizer, an immigrant, and a local elected official. She is has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Ayanna Pressley, Working Families and The Sunrise Movement.
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Vincent Lloyd is associate professor of theology and religious studies and director of Africana studies at Villanova University. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of religion, race, and politics. His books include In Defense of Charisma (Columbia, 2018), Black Natural Law (Oxford, 2016), and a coedited volume, Race and Secularism in America (Columbia, 2016). Vincent Lloyd and Joshua Dubler co-authored Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (2019).
João Carlos Magalhães is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Brooke Belisle researches and teaches the comparative history and theory of media aesthetics at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on the recurrent disruptions and possibilities of “new media”, exploring emergent formats and experimental practices that echo across different periods of technological and social transformation. She directs the Stony Brook working group in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology , is an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture , and has co-chaired the CinemArts group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Loren Balhorn is a contributing editor at Jacobin and co-editor, together with Bhaskar Sunkara, of Jacobin: Die Anthologie (Suhrkamp, 2018).
We speak with Joseph F Getzoff about start-up nationalism. Joseph F Getzoff has been in the University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Environment, and Society since 2011. He is currently a PhD candidate. He is also an adjunct instructor at Worcester State University. His field work centered on the Negev/Naqab Desert in Israel. As a cultural geographer, he critically studies the discourses and practices that link nationalism, environment, and development.
We speak with Neil Cummins about inequality and hidden wealth in the UK. Neil Cummins is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research themes are life, love and death. His methods combine economic logic and historical sources with big data analytics. His research papers are available at neilcummins.com
We speak with Pauline Grosjean about how economics can help us understand the origins of ‘masculinity norms’. Pauline Grosjean is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
We speak with Frank Andre Guridy about sports stadiums and contested space. Frank Andre Guridy teaches history and African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the high point of the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements.
We talk with Sascha O. Becker about the impact of German division and reunification. Sascha O. Becker is the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England.
