Radney, Imani
Imani Radney is an associate editor at Public Books. She is also a PhD candidate in history at New York University. She holds an MA in Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University and an AB ...
Rahmani, Sina
Sina Rahmani is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. He recently completed his PhD in ...
Rajagopal, Arvind
Arvind Rajagopal is Professor of Media Studies at NYU, and is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis. His books include Politics After Television: ...
Ramachandran, Nandini
Nandini Ramachandran is a contributing editor at Public Books and a graduate student in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She can be found online as @chaosbogey.
Rambaran-Olm, Mary
Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm is a specialist of early England. She is currently a provost postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is investigating race in early England.
Ramírez, Catherine S.
Catherine S. Ramírez, chair of the Latin American and Latino studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of Mexican American history; race, migration, and ...
Ramírez-D’Oleo, Dixa
Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo is associate professor of English at Brown University and she wrote Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the Nineteenth Century to the ...
Ramos , Iván A.
Iván A. Ramos is an assistant professor of LGBTQ studies and women’s studies in the department of women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. His writing has appeared in several journals ...
Rampell, Palmer
Palmer Rampell received his PhD in English in 2017 from Yale University, where he wrote a dissertation on genre fiction and privacy in 20th-century America. He will be a visiting scholar at the ...
Randall, Alice
Alice Randall is Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, where for over a decade she has taught courses on African American foodways. She is the coauthor of the award-winning cookbook memoir ...
Rangwala , Shama
Shama Rangwala is a faculty lecturer at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD in English and film studies. Shama’s intermedia and interdisciplinary work focuses on the adaptation and reproduction ...
Rao, Anupama
Anupama Rao is Associate Professor, History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is currently completing a book on the political thought of B. R. Ambedkar, tentatively titled “Ambedkar ...
Raphel, Adrienne
Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live without Them (Penguin Press, 2020) and What Was It For (Rescue, 2017). Her ...
Rasberry, Vaughn
Vaughn Rasberry studies African American and African Diaspora literature, 20th-century American fiction, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity. In 2016, Harvard University ...
Ravelli, Quentin
Quentin Ravelli is a sociologist and writer in Paris, France. He is the author of several essays and novels, about economic crises and about the pharmaceutical industry, and he has directed a ...
Raymundo, Emily
Emily Raymundo, PhD, is a presidential fellow in American studies at the University of Manchester (UK). She is currently working on an academic monograph, “Asian America at the End of ...
Reeck, Matt
Matt Reeck earned a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA. He has been awarded grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the PEN/Heim Fund, and the NEA. Forthcoming translations include The Chronicle ...
Reed, Kate
Kate Reed is a graduate student in economic and social history at the University of Oxford. She previously worked as an instructor for the Global History Lab and History Dialogues at Princeton ...
Reich, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Reich is assistant professor of film and media studies in the department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and ...
Reid, Amanda
Amanda Reid is a PhD candidate in the department of history at the University of Michigan, and is currently based in Brooklyn. She writes about Caribbean cultural policy, modern dance, and West ...
Reid-Pharr, Robert
Robert Reid-Pharr teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author, most recently, of Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (2016). His essays have appeared in ...
Reilly, Kevin
Kevin Reilly is a writer and artist living in Nashville, TN. He started Huis Clos with Mark Pacheco, a trusted friend, in August of 2014.
Renner, Nausicaa
Nausicaa Renner, originally from Chicago, is a freelance editor and writer in New York City.
Renouard, Cécile
Cécile Renouard is Director of the CODEV (Companies and Development) Research Programme at the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (IRENE) at ESSEC Business School in Paris. She is ...
Riccò, Giulia
Giulia Riccò is assistant professor of Italian in the department of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests include fascism, memory ...
Richard, Claire
Claire Richard is a French writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She writes about literature and digital culture for various French media and is currently working on a book about the Young Lords ...
Richardson, Riché
Riché Richardson is an associate professor at Cornell University and a Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project. Her essays have appeared in a range of books and journals. She is author of Black ...
Rickford, Russell
Russell Rickford is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He specializes in African American political culture and the black radical tradition.
Rico, Trinidad
Trinidad Rico is an associate professor and the director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies in the department of art history at Rutgers University. She is an archaeologist who studies ...
Rinehart, Nicholas
Nicholas Rinehart is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Journal of Social History, Journal of American Studies, and MELUS.
Riordan, Kevin
Kevin Riordan teaches at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and is the author of Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne’s Wake (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He is a co ...
Risam, Roopika
Roopika Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at Dartmouth College. She is the author of New ...
Ristovska, Sandra
Sandra Ristovska is a filmmaker and a doctoral student whose dissertation research looks at video activism, media witnessing, and citizenship. She serves as a co-chair of the Emerging Scholars ...
Ritas, Cassandra
Cassandra Ritas founded the People’s Policy Institute (PPI) in 2009. Through collaborative research, analysis, and action, PPI supports communities that strive for social, economic, and environmental ...
Rivera, Lauren
Lauren Rivera is professor of management and organizations (and professor of sociology, by courtesy) at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. An expert in social inequality, she is ...
Robbins, Bruce
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest books are The Beneficiary (Duke University Press, 2017), Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from ...
Robcis, Camille
Camille Robcis is professor of French and history at Columbia University. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press ...
Roberson, Jehan
Jehan Roberson is a writer, performer, and educator who uses text as the basis for her interdisciplinary arts practice. Her work has been published in Apogee, MadameNoire, VICE, Women and ...
Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts is a feminist ethnographer focused on science, medicine, and technology and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her projects have included ...
Roberts, Jody A.
Jody A. Roberts, Ph.D., is a science and technology studies scholar by training and a disabilities researcher, advocate, and bureaucrat by life experience. He tries to put both into practice and ...
Roberts, Neil
Neil Roberts is an associate professor of Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Political Science and Religion at Williams College. He is author of the award-winning Freedom as Marronage (2015) ...
Robertson, Craig
Craig Robertson is an associate professor in the Program in Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University. His medium of interest is paper, specifically its relationship to understandings of ...
Robertson-Textor, Marisa
Marisa Robertson-Textor is a writer based in Brooklyn. She worked as a Russian-English translator in Moscow before receiving a Masters of International Affairs at Columbia University. The former ...
Robitaille , Iana
Iana Robitaille is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin, where her teaching and research focus on 20th– and 21st-century American literature, cultural studies, and ...
Rocca, Alexander
Alexander Rocca is a doctoral candidate in American literature at Columbia University.
Rockman, Alexis
Alexis Rockman is a New York–based fine artist known for his paintings depicting nature and its intersections with humanity. His art draws from a diverse range of inspirations, including old master ...
Rockwell, Daisy
Daisy Rockwell is a painter, translator and writer living in the United States.
Rodríguez, Dylan
Dylan Rodríguez is President-Elect of the American Studies Association (2020–2021), the faculty-elected Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate (2016–2020), and a professor at the University of ...
Rogers, Gayle
Gayle Rogers is professor and associate chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books on modernism, translation, and the history of ideas and coeditor, with Sean ...
Rojas, Carlos
Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, or translator of seven books, including ...
Ronen, Shelly
Shelly Ronen is a doctoral candidate in sociology at New York University. Her dissertation focuses on designers who make technologies of physical intimacy: sex toys, dolls, and robots.
Rosenblatt, Eli
Eli Rosenblatt received his PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. His dissertation, titled “Enlightening the Skin: Travel, Racial Language, and Rabbinic ...
Ross, Andrew
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and a social activist. A contributor to the Nation, the Village Voice, the New York Times, and Artforum, he is the ...
Ross, Reuben
Reuben Ross is currently a doctoral candidate in Culture Studies at the Lisbon Consortium, part of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where his interdisciplinary research explores issues of identity ...
Rossi-Totten, Laura
Laura Rossi-Totten is a writer, public relations expert, and mother of twins, one with special needs. Before starting her own public relations agency, Laura worked in New York City at top publishing ...
Rossmanith, Kate
Kate Rossmanith is a writer and anthropologist. She is the author of Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law (2018), and is the co-editor of Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi ...
Rossmann, Jenn Stroud
Jenn Stroud Rossmann is a professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College and the coauthor of the textbooks Continuum Mechanics for Engineers: 4th Edition (Routledge, 2020) and Introduction ...
Rothberg, Michael
Michael Rothberg is the author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. His next book is The ...
Round, Phillip H.
Phillip H. Round is Professor of English and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country (2010).
Roura, Xavier
Xavier Roura is a cultural journalist and multitasker who specializes in Catalan literature, linguistics, and creative writing. He is also an expert on the genres of industrial metal and goth music ...
Rousseau, Max
Max Rousseau is a research fellow in political science (CIRAD, UMR CNRS 5281 ART-Dev). Since 2014, he has worked as an assistant professor at the INAU in Rabat, Morocco. He is particularly interested ...
Roy, Ananya
Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is ...
Roy, Nilanjana
Nilanjana Roy is a novelist, essayist and literary critic who lives in Delhi.
Roy, Arpan
Arpan Roy is a graduate student in anthropology, a freelance writer, a sometimes poet, and a lover of cities. He has been doing ethnographic fieldwork in Israel/Palestine since 2012. He currently ...
Rubery, Matthew
Matthew Rubery is a professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Harvard University Press, 2016) and the coeditor of ...
Rubini, Rocco
Rocco Rubini is an associate professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism ...
Rubio-Pueyo, Vicente
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is adjunct instructor of Spanish at Fordham University and a visiting scholar at Urban Democracy Lab (NYU). He is currently finishing a book on political cultures of Spanish ...
Rudnyckyj, Daromir
Daromir Rudnyckyj is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance (University of Chicago Press, 2019) ...
Ruinet, Anne-Valérie
Anne-Valérie Ruinet studied at EM Lyon, Sciences Po Paris, and holds a master’s degree in Chinese studies from INALCO. She is general delegate of the foundation of an engineering school. After ...
Rush, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (Milkweed, 2018). She is currently serving as the Antarctic Artist and Writer for the National Science Foundation. Rush ...
Russell, David
David Russell is a lecturer in 19th-century literature at King’s College London. He is writing a book about the tact of the essay form.
Rutigliano, Olivia
Olivia Rutigliano is a PhD candidate and fellow in the department of English and comparative literature and the department of theater at Columbia University. A staff writer at LitHub and CrimeReads ...
Ryan, James
James Ryan is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is working on a dissertation entitled “The Republic of Others: Opponents of Kemalism in Turkey’s Single-Party Era ...
Ryan, Robert Cashin
Robert Cashin Ryan is founding editor of hyped on melancholy, a publication devoted to sad sounds and why we cleave to them. He has written about Christmas, drone music, “Born in the USA” and other ...