Sagan, Claire
Claire Sagan is an assistant professor of political theory at Vassar College. She is currently finishing her book, “Beyond Utopia,” which engage temporality in our context of ecological catastrophes ...
Sager, Alex
Alex Sager is associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (Rowman and ...
Saint-Amour, Paul
Paul Saint-Amour is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century literature. He is the author of The ...
Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of over 30 articles on revolution, subaltern politics, indigenous peoples ...
Samuel , Petal
Petal Samuel is a scholar of Afro-Caribbean literature and Caribbean anticolonial thought, politics, and aesthetics. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of African, African ...
Sánchez Prado , Ignacio M.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn professor in the humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on Mexican literature, film, and culture and ...
Sanchez Sanchez, Alberto
Alberto Sanchez Sanchez is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. A licensed architect in Spain, Alberto holds a MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and is ...
Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is a cultural anthropologist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology in the department of anthropology at the University of Nevada ...
Sassen, Saskia
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she also co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought. Her books have been translated into 21 languages and ...
Sater, Maxwell
Maxwell Sater is a writer living in Colorado. He recently received his PhD in English literature from Rutgers University.
Sauder, Michael
Michael Sauder is a professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and a fellow at Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany. He is the author, with Wendy Espeland, of Engines of Anxiety: Academic ...
Sayer, Mandy
Mandy Sayer won the Vogel Award for her first novel, Mood Indigo, two weeks after this interview took place. She has since published five works of fiction, and six works of non-fiction ...
Sayers, Nicola
Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her book, The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Literature ...
Scarry, Elaine
Elaine Scarry teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain (1985), On Beauty and Being Just (1999) ...
Schaberg, Christopher
Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. His latest book is Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental ...
Schleifer, David
David Schleifer is vice president and director of research at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research and public-engagement organization, where he conducts public-opinion research on health care ...
Schneiderman, Josh
Josh Schneiderman is completing a dissertation on the poetics of ephemerality in postwar American poetry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He edited the 1955–56 ...
Schrader, Stuart
Stuart Schrader teaches Africana studies and sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is completing a book for the University of California Press on the domestic consequences of US overseas ...
Schrock, Andrew
Dr. Andrew Schrock is the founder of Aloi Research and Consulting, author of the book Civic Tech, and faculty at USC Annenberg. He researches communication and technology, particularly nonprofit ...
Schüll, Natasha Dow
Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Addiction by Design: ...
Schwartz, Marcy
Marcy Schwartz is chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. She teaches service learning courses and leads reading programs with Hispanic inmates in local prisons ...
Scibona, Salvatore
Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End (Graywolf, 2008), was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and an O. Henry Award; and he is a ...
Scott, Lwando
Lwando Scott, PhD, is a Next Generation Scholar at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. Lwando’s research focus is on what he loosely terms “queering the ...
Seguín, Bécquer
Bécquer Seguín is an assistant professor of Iberian studies at Johns Hopkins University. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Seidel, Kathleen Gilles
Kathleen Gilles Seidel is the author of 14 contemporary novels, which have won many romance-market awards, including two RITAs from the Romance Writers of America. She has a PhD in English Literature ...
Seikaly, Sherene
Sherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford ...
Semaj-Hall, Isis
Isis Semaj-Hall is an assistant professor of Caribbean literature and pop culture in the department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. As the Riddim Writer, she ...
Serpell, Namwali
Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first novel is The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019).
Serquiña Jr., Oscar Tantoco
Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr. is a PhD candidate in theater studies at the University of Melbourne, where he is working on a dissertation that explores sites of speech study, training, and performance ...
Seshagiri, Urmila
Urmila Seshagiri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches modernism, contemporary fiction, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Race and the ...
Sethi, Aarti
Aarti Sethi is an anthropologist who works on the economic and social life of debt in rural India. Her current book project examines farmer suicides in Vidharba, central India. She has published on ...
Setiya, Kieran
Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He is the author of a self-help book ...
Seymour, Nicole
Nicole Seymour is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and Queer Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Strange Natures: ...
Shaalan, Nora
Nora Shaalan is a writer and PhD student at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the Oxonian Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Shapira, Harel
Harel Shapira is an ethnographer and assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of American ...
Sharkey, Patrick
Patrick Sharkey is the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, to be published in January 2018. He is chair of NYU’s Sociology ...
Sharp, Deen
Deen Sharp is a codirector of Terreform, an urban research studio and advocacy group, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Shepard, Meredith
Meredith Shepard is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University Council on African Studies. She received her PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. Her dissertation ...
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an assistant professor in Loyola University Chicago’s history department. Her work on American political economy has appeared online, in scholarly journals, and in books ...
Sherwood, Normandy Raven
Normandy Raven Sherwood is a theater maker: playwright, costumer, director, performer. In addition to the National Theater of the United States of America, Normandy makes work with her band / theater ...
Shoshan, Malkit
Malkit Shoshan works at the intersection of design and activism. She is the founding director of the architectural think tank Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST). FAST uses research ...
Shrum, Robert
Robert M. Shrum is the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California and author of No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (2007). A ...
Siegel, Benjamin
Benjamin Siegel is an assistant professor of history at Boston University and the author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is ...
Simmonds, Alecia
Alecia Simmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar in law and history at the University of Technology Sydney and New York University – Sydney. She is the author of the award-winning book Wild Man ...
Simon , Bryant
Bryant Simon is a professor of history at Temple University. He is currently writing a history of the public bathroom in the United States.
Simon, Ed
Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions. His book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (2021) is available from Belt Publishing. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (2022) will be ...
Simone, AbdouMaliq
AbdouMaliq Simone is senior professorial fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
Singerman, David
Before he joined the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of history and American studies, David Singerman co-organized the progressive advocacy group Indivisible Charlottesville. He ...
Singh, Bhrigupati
Bhrigupati Singh is an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown University. He is the author of Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India (2015) and the ...
Sinitiere, Phillip Luke
Phillip Luke Sinitiere is a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school located in Houston’s Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American ...
Skarpelis, A. K. M.
A. K. M. Skarpelis is a sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she is affiliated with the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for ...
Sligar, Sara
Sara Sligar is a novelist and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in 20th-century American fiction, film, and television. Her dissertation examines the rise ...
Sloane, Mona
Mona Sloane is a sociologist working on design and inequality, specifically in the context of AI design and policy. She is a senior research scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible AI, an adjunct ...
Smith, Vanessa
Vanessa Smith is a professor of English at the University of Sydney. Her most recent books are Intimate Strangers (2010) and, as coeditor, Mutiny and Aftermath (2013). Her current research uses ...
Smith, Matthew J.
Matthew J. Smith is Professor of Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica.
Smith, Caleb
Caleb Smith is a professor of English and American studies at Yale University. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Oracle and the Curse ...
Smith, Jackson
Jackson Smith is a doctoral candidate in American studies at New York University. His dissertation explores the politics of policing and spatial dimensions of urban inequality in Philadelphia through ...
So, Richard Jean
Richard Jean So is an assistant professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. He specializes in data science and computational approaches to the humanities, American literature ...
Solomon, Alisa
Alisa Solomon, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, has written for The Nation, the New York Times, NewYorker.com, The Forward, American Theater, Theater, and TDR ...
Song, Min Hyoung
Min Hyoung Song is a professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Duke University Press, 2013) and Strange ...
Soni, Sandeep
Sandeep Soni earned his doctorate in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021. His primary research is in using computational methods to model language change and social ...
Sorett, Josef
Josef Sorett is an associate professor of religion and African American studies at Columbia University, where he also directs the Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social ...
Soto van der Plas, Christina
Christina Soto van der Plas is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. She has published in academic volumes on Latin American literature ...
Spahr, Juliana
Juliana Spahr is a poet and a scholar. Her most recent book is Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Spaide, Christopher
Christopher Spaide is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University. His essays and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, the New Yorker online, and Slate.
Spain, Daphne
Daphne Spain taught in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia for 30 years. During that time, she wrote multiple articles and ...
Speltz, Mark
Mark Speltz is an author and public historian who researches and writes about civil rights–era photography, vernacular architecture, and Wisconsin culture and history. Currently a Senior Historian ...
Spencer, Rochelle
Rochelle Spencer is author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and coeditor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University ...
Sperling, Joshua
Joshua Sperling teaches film and literature at Oberlin College. His first book, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger (Verso, 2018), has been translated into Korean, complex and ...
Spigner, Nicole A.
Nicole A. Spigner is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Her book project “Niobe Repeating: ...
Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is an assistant professor of English at Rice University, where she works on contemporary Asian American and South Asian Anglophone literatures and cultural theory. She has ...
Stadler, Gustavus
Gustavus Stadler is the author of Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020) and Troubling Minds (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, Social Text ...
Stanley, James P.
James P. Stanley is a media scholar and theater artist and a founder of the National Theater of the United States of America, with whom he works a as a writer, director, designer, and performer. In ...
Steer, Philip
Philip Steer teaches English at Massey University in New Zealand. His research focuses on the intersections of literary culture, economics, and environments in colonial New Zealand and Australia. He ...
Stein, Joal
Joal Stein is a writer, independent curator, and strategist investigating spatial and social power through contemporary culture—working across art, architecture, poetry, planning, and social ...
Stein, Arlene
Arlene Stein is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, where she directs the Institute for Research on Women. Her latest book is Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity ...
Steinberg, Justin
Justin Steinberg teaches Italian literature at the University of Chicago and edits the journal Dante Studies. He is the author of Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval ...
Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg is the visual resources librarian for Islamic art and architecture at the Harvard University Fine Arts Library and a scholar of medieval Arabic popular literature. Her ...
Stephan, Megan
Megan Stephan is a continuing lecturer in the Department of English and serves as faculty coordinator for Writing in the English Majors and the Professional Writing Minor at the University of ...
Stephen, Lynn
Lynn Stephen is Philip H. Knight Chair, professor of anthropology, and graduate faculty in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research centers on immigration ...
Stephens, Michelle
Michelle Stephens, professor of English and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (Duke ...
Stephenson, Sam
Sam Stephenson’s next book, Gene Smith’s Sink, will be published in August by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A North Carolina native and longtime resident of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Stephenson ...
Stern, Simon
Simon Stern is Associate Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor (with Nan Goodman) of the Ashgate Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century ...
Stevens, Mitchell L.
Mitchell L. Stevens is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology at Stanford University, where he also co-leads the Stanford Pathways Lab. He is the author of Creating a Class: College ...
Stevens, Hallam
Hallam Stevens is an associate professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Associate Director of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity. His research ...
Stieber, Chelsea
Chelsea Stieber is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and ...
Stimpson, Catharine R.
Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor at New York University and Dean Emerita of its Graduate School of Arts and Science. Her most recent book is Critical Terms for the Study of Gender ...
Stovall, Natasha
Natasha Stovall is a clinical psychologist in New York City working with adults, adolescents, and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice ...
Streeter, Ben
Ben Streeter has written for World Literature Today, the Modernist Review, and the Honest Ulsterman. He is a graduate student at George Washington University and an editor for the Pew Charitable ...
Struhl, Abigail
Abigail Struhl is a graduate student in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. She edits the Public Streets series for Public Books.
Subramaniam, Banu
Banu Subramaniam is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of ...
Sugrue, Thomas J.
Thomas J. Sugrue is a professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University, where he also directs the NYU Cities Collaborative. His eight books include the Bancroft ...
Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, PhD, is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015). She is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.
Sultan, Niv M.
Niv M. Sultan is a writer based in New York and a former Public Books editorial intern.
Sundiata, Ibrahim
Ibrahim Sundiata is emeritus professor of African/Afro-American studies and history at Brandeis University. His interests are social justice in comparative perspective as reflected through the prisms ...
Swift, Daniel
Daniel Swift’s most recent book is The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). He teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London.
Szetela, Adam
Adam Szetela is a visiting fellow in the history department at Harvard University and an associate lecturer in the English department at Curry College. His recent work appears in the Los Angeles ...