Baena, Victoria
Victoria Baena is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Yale University. Her work focuses on the novel between realism and modernism in Europe and Latin America.
Baer, Ulrich
Ulrich Baer’s podcast Think About It features in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on powerful ideas. The first 40 or so episodes are dedicated to free speech. He has written and edited books ...
Bakke, Gretchen
Gretchen Bakke holds a PhD from the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology. Her work focuses on the chaos and creativity that emerge during social, cultural, and technological transitions ...
Baldasso, Franco
Franco Baldasso, American Academy in Rome Fellow 2018–19, is an assistant professor of Italian at Bard College and the author of Il cerchio di gesso. Primo Levi narratore e testimone (The chalk ...
Baldez, Lisa
Lisa Baldez is professor of government and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College. Her most recent book is Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s ...
Baldoz, Rick
Rick Baldoz is an associate professor of sociology at Oberlin College. He is the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898–1946 (NYU Press, 2011). He is ...
Baldy, Cutcha Risling
Cutcha Risling Baldy is an assistant professor of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. She is Hupa, Karuk, and Yurok and enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She writes about pop ...
Balkan, Stacey
Stacey Balkan is Associate Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member for the university’s Center for ...
Balto, Simon
Simon Balto is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa and the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power ...
Banful, Akua
Akua Banful is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she works on questions of climate, culture, and empire. She is also the Andrew W. Mellon Pre ...
Banks, Bryan
Bryan Banks is an assistant professor of history at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. His current research focuses on Huguenot refugees during the French Enlightenment and French ...
Barnes, David
David Barnes is an associate professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against ...
Barnes, Rex
Rex Barnes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His dissertation, “Haunting Matters,” explores late medieval and early modern notions of demonic infestation ...
Barnhisel, Greg
Greg Barnhisel is professor of English at Duquesne University. He is the author of many scholarly books and articles, including Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy ...
Barocas, Solon
Solon Barocas is a researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research and an assistant professor in the department of information science at Cornell University. He is also a faculty associate ...
Bartram, Robin
Robin Bartram is an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University. Her research focuses on housing and inequality, and she has published articles on how built environments reproduce gendered ...
Basile, Jonathan
Jonathan Basile is a PhD Student in Emory University’s Comparative Literature program and the creator of an online universal library, libraryofbabel.info. His first book, Tar for Mortar: “The Library ...
Baszak, Gregor
Gregor Baszak is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His writing has previously appeared in American Book Review, Electronic Book Review, Los Angeles ...
Baykurt, Burcu
Burcu Baykurt is an assistant professor of urban futures and communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at ...
Bear, Laura
Laura Bear is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Jadu House (2000), Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers and the ...
Becker, Howard
Howard S. Becker is a sociologist and author who lives in San Francisco and (at times) Paris. He is the author of Art Worlds (1982) and Telling about Society (2007) and coauthor (with Robert R ...
Beehler, Brianna
Brianna Beehler is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Southern California.
Behar, Daniel
Daniel Behar is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Hebrew and Arabic literatures. His forthcoming book is about modern poetry and poetry translation in Syria. His Hebrew and ...
Belcher, Christina
Christina Belcher received her PhD, in 2016, from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a lecturer in the writing program. She recently edited an anthology, #WeToo: Sex Work ...
Bellamy, Brent Ryan
Brent Ryan Bellamy is an instructor in the English and cultural studies departments at Trent University and is coeditor of An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Materialism ...
Bellonby, Diana
Diana Bellonby is a nonprofit director and cultural historian. She co-runs the Fringe Foundation, a grantmaking organization committed to social justice through community-led organizing. She writes ...
Ben-Merre, David
David Ben-Merre teaches classes on 20th-century literature, literary theory, and poetry at Buffalo State College. He is the author of Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry (SUNY Press ...
Benedict, Kennette
Kennette Benedict is a former executive director of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a senior advisor to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a lecturer at University of Chicago’s Harris School ...
Bennett, Eric
Eric Bennett is the author of A Big Enough Lie and Workshops of Empire. Other writing has appeared in the New York Times, A Public Space, MFA vs. NYC, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New ...
Benthall, Sebastian
Sebastian Benthall is a fellow at the Information Law Institute and Guarini Global Law and Tech within the NYU School of Law. His work uses methods from computer science, statistics, and economics to ...
Benzecry, Claudio E.
Claudio E. Benzecry is associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern University and a sociologist interested in culture, arts, knowledge, and globalization. He is the author of The ...
Berger, Dan
Dan Berger is an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell and the author or editor of six books, including Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in ...
Berke, Annie
Annie Berke is the film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and author of the forthcoming book, Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (University of California Press ...
Berlatsky, Noah
Noah Berlatsky is a freelance writer for the Guardian, Quartz, Splice Today, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941–1948 (2015).
Berman, Greg
Greg Berman is the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation and the coauthor of Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration (New Press, 2018).
Bernholz, Lucy
Lucy Bernholz is the director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, and policy, and she ...
Bernstein, Susan David
Susan David Bernstein is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (2013).
Bernstein, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bernstein is Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of Sociology at Barnard College. She has published widely on the political economy of the body, gender, and ...
Bérubé, Michael
Michael Bérubé is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University and the author of The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding ...
Best, Stephen
Stephen Best is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (University of Chicago Press, 2004) ...
Bewes, Timothy
Timothy Bewes is professor of English at Brown University. His books include Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso, 2002); The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Princeton University Press ...
Bhan, Gautam
Dr. Gautam Bhan is the senior lead of academics and research at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. He works on urban poverty, inequality, housing, and social protection, with a ...
Bialecki, Jon
Jon Bialecki is a continuing lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego; he is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement ...
Biel, Steven
Steven Biel is executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University. His books include American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most ...
Binyamini, Hadas
Hadas Binyamini is a PhD student in the departments of history and of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University.
Biswas, Debarati
Debarati Biswas holds a PhD in English and Africana studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She teaches in the English department at Hunter College, CUNY. She is currently completing her book ...
Blain, Keisha N.
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Blain is ...
Blair, Bruce G.
Bruce G. Blair is a research scholar at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and cofounder of Global Zero, an international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons ...
Blanco Mourelle, Noel
Noel Blanco Mourelle teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
Blankholm, Joseph
Joseph Blankholm is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently working on a monograph about secular activists and organized ...
Blankinship, Kevin
Kevin Blankinship is an assistant professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University. His essays and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The ...
Blatt, Jessica
Jessica Blatt is an associate professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College, where she teaches courses on political thought and American politics. She is the author of Race and the ...
Blee, Kathleen
Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Bailey Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely on the Ku Klux Klan and ...
Block, Sharon
Sharon Block is professor of history at the University of California–Irvine and a 2020–21 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She works in ...
Bloom, Emily
Emily Bloom is the author of The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931–1968 (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association ...
Blum, Beth
Beth Blum is an assistant professor of English at Harvard University. She is finishing a book manuscript about the joint history of modern literature and self-help. Pieces pertaining to this research ...
Blumberg, Ilana
Ilana Blumberg is professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and author of Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and the Sami Rohr ...
Bockman, Johanna
Johanna Bockman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs at George Mason University. She is author of Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism (Stanford) ...
Bok, Sissela
Sissela Bok, a writer and philosopher, is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is the author of many books, including Lying: Moral Choice in ...
Bolton, Jonathan
Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he teaches Czech and Central European literature and history. He is the author of Worlds of Dissent: ...
Bommier, Swann
Swann Bommier holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo Paris). His PhD focused on how non-governmental organizations make use of international ...
Bond, Sarah E.
Sarah E. Bond is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Digital ...
Bonhomme, Edna
Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and editor based in Berlin, Germany. She earned her PhD in history of science at Princeton University. Her essays critically engage with how ...
Bonilla, Yarimar
Yarimar Bonilla is professor in the department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD program in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of ...
Boucicaut, Pascale
Pascale Boucicaut is a graduate student of folklore and archaeology at UC Berkeley. She frequently lives, works, and writes on the Isthmus of Panama.
Bouleau, Nicolas
Nicolas Bouleau is Professor Emeritus at the École des Ponts ParisTech, where he was director of the Research Center in Mathematics and Scientific Computing. He is the author, most recently, of Le ...
Bourg, Julian
Julian Bourg is an associate professor of history at Boston College. His book, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007, 2017) won the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch Prize ...
Bowen, Liz
Liz Bowen is a poet and critic living in New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Sugarblood (Metatron, 2017) and Compassion Fountain (Trembling Pillow, 2020). She is also a PhD ...
boyd, danah
danah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society, a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, and a visiting professor at New York University. Her research is focused on making certain ...
Boyd, Ryan
Ryan Boyd lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at the University of Southern California.
Boykoff, Jules
Jules Boykoff is the author of three books on the Olympic Games, most recently Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (2016). His essays at the nexus of politics and sports have appeared ...
Boylan, Alexis
Alexis L. Boylan is the associate director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut and an associate professor of art history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her new ...
Boyle, Margaret
Margaret E. Boyle is an associate professor of hispanic studies at Bowdoin College. She is currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Spain, in residence at the López Piñero Institute for the History of ...
Branum, Guy
Guy Branum is a comedian and writer. He is the host of Pop Rocket, a podcast about popular culture, and author of My Life As A Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture (Atria, 2018).
Brazil, Kevin
Kevin Brazil teaches English at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Art, History, and Postwar Fiction (OUP, 2018).
Breckman, Warren
Warren Breckman is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy (2013) ...
Bredie, Nicholas
Nicholas Bredie is the author of the novel Not Constantinople (Dzanc, 2017). His work has been featured in Ploughshares, Guernica, and the Believer, among other publications. He is currently a PhD ...
Briefel, Aviva
Aviva Briefel is a professor of English at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell University Press, 2006) and The Racial Hand ...
Briggs, Laura
Laura Briggs is professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California ...
Brill, Laura W.
Laura W. Brill is a lawyer in Los Angeles and a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She and her wife Ellen Evans were married in California in 2008 before the passage of Proposition 8 ...
Brilmyer, Pearl
S. Pearl Brilmyer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work lies at the intersection of the history of philosophy, science, and literature, with a focus on 19th ...
Britton, Greg
Greg Britton is editorial director of Johns Hopkins University Press, where he oversees the editorial program and acquires the Press’s award-winning list in higher education studies. Prior to joining ...
Broder, Melanie
Melanie Broder is a writer in New York. She has recently been published in The Common and in Reading in Translation. She’s currently at work on her first novel.
Brooks, Rosa
Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything (2016). She also writes a weekly column for Foreign ...
Brothers, Cammy
Cammy Brothers is an associate professor of art and architectural history at Northeastern University and the author of Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture (2008).
Brouillette, Sarah
Sarah Brouillette is a professor in the department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Broussard, Meredith
Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World ...
Brown, David Sterling
David Sterling Brown—a Shakespeare and premodern critical race studies scholar—is assistant professor of English at Binghamton University. His antiracist scholarship is published or forthcoming in ...
Brown , Adrienne
Adrienne Brown is an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago. She coedited Race and Real Estate (Oxford University Press, 2016) and is the author of The Black Skyscraper: ...
Brown, Matthew P.
Matthew P. Brown is an associate professor in the Center for the Book and the English Department at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book ...
Brown-Saracino, Japonica
Japonica Brown-Saracino is a professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Boston University. She is the author, most recently, of How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in ...
Brownell, Kathryn C.
Kathryn Cramer Brownell is assistant professor of history at Purdue University. She is the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life, which explores the rise of the celebrity ...
Brunton, Finn
Finn Brunton is an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (2013) and, with Helen Nissenbaum ...
Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her short work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, the Paris Review Daily, and Guernica. She has ...
Buff, Rachel Ida
Rachel Ida Buff is a practicing writer and historian. She teaches in the history department and the Comparative Ethnic Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Currently, she is ...
Burroughs, John
John Burroughs, JD, PhD, is Executive Director of the New York City–based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. He represents LCNP in the United Nations, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review ...
Burrows, Stuart
Stuart Burrows is an associate professor of English at Brown University. He has recently completed his second book, a study of Henry James and moral philosophy; his first book, A Familiar ...
Burstein, Jessica
Jessica Burstein is an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Cold Modernism: Literature ...
Burt, Stephen
Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, most recently The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them ...
Buskey, Megan
Megan Buskey writes about Ukrainian culture, politics, and history. The author of Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (ibidem, 2023), she has published articles and essays in ...
Bustamante, Michael J.
Michael J. Bustamante is an associate professor of history and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: ...
Byrd, Brandon R.
Brandon R. Byrd is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century United States with specializations in African American and African Diaspora History. He is currently an assistant professor of history at ...