Wade, Lisa
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. In addition to dozens of research papers, chapters, and essays, she is the coauthor of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (2015) ...
Wagner, Laura
Laura Wagner is a writer, archivist, and anthropologist. She is the author of a young adult novel about the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go (Amulet, 2015). Her writing has ...
Wainwright, Joel
Joel Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, where he teaches about political economy, environmental change, and social theory. Along with Climate Leviathan ...
Wald, Priscilla
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Chair of English at Duke University, is the author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008) and Constituting Americans: Cultural ...
Walker, Kyle
Kyle Walker is a writer based in Anchorage, Alaska, where he lives with his wife. He loves that one song by Toto. He hates Earl Grey with too much bergamot.
Waller, Lance A.
Lance A. Waller is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He publishes spatial statistical methods for epidemiology and ...
Walton, Jean
Jean Walton is a professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches modernism, film, and gender studies. She is the author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis ...
Wampole, Christy
Christy Wampole is an essayist and an associate professor of French at Princeton University. She has published three books: Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France ...
Wang, Pu
Pu Wang is associate professor of Chinese literature and chair of comparative literature at Brandeis University. He received his PhD in comparative literature from NYU, in 2012. His books include The ...
Wanzo, Rebecca
Rebecca Wanzo is professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her books include The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African ...
Ware, Lawrence
Lawrence Ware is codirector of the Africana studies program and teaching assistant professor and diversity coordinator in the department of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He is a ...
Wasserman, Sarah
Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. Her book, The Death of Things: Ephemera and the ...
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor’s professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He has written extensively on protests and repression in China’s past, as well as many other topics ...
Waters, Lindsay
Lindsay Waters earned his PhD in 1976 at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Byron and the Renaissance Italian epic. He was an editor at University of Minnesota Press from 1979 to 1984 ...
Watson, Tim
Tim Watson is professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and ...
Weekes, Omari
Omari Weekes is an assistant professor of English at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. His primary scholarly work thinks through the affective dimensions of sex and spirituality in 20th- and ...
Weintraub, Alex
Alex Weintraub is an art historian and critic based in New York City. He is currently working on a book examining the history of art at the French National Library.
Weisenfeld, Judith
Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great ...
Weiss, Ivan
Ivan Weiss is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and teacher based in Durham, North Carolina. His work has spanned a variety of subjects, including experimental music, baseball, desegregation ...
Weiss, Hadas
Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist and a fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her research centers on social aspects of financialization in Israel, Germany, and Spain. She is the author ...
Weiss, Margot
Margot Weiss is associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in Queer Studies. Major publications include the award-winning ...
Wekker, Gloria
Gloria Wekker is an Afro-Dutch cultural anthropologist with specializations in gender studies, sexuality, African American studies, and Caribbean studies. She was a professor in the department of ...
Wells, Katie J.
Katie J. Wells is an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC, which is ...
Whitaker , Kayla Rae
Kayla Rae Whitaker recently returned to her native Kentucky after seven years of living in New York City. She now lives in Louisville. Her debut novel, The Animators, was released by Random House on ...
Whitney, Candice
Candice Whitney is a researcher, writer, and international-education professional, based in New Jersey. In 2016–17, as a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research that explored how the diversity of ...
Whitted, Qiana
Qiana Whitted is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at University of South Carolina. A graduate of Hampton University with a PhD from Yale, her research focuses on African ...
Wichowski, Alexis
Alexis Wichowski serves as deputy chief technology officer for innovation for the City of New York and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. Views expressed are her own.
Wiet , Elizabeth
Elizabeth Wiet is a PhD candidate in English at Yale University whose research explores the aesthetic and material conditions of avant-garde performance. She is currently completing a dissertation ...
Wilde, Matt
Matt Wilde is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He specializes in research on urban politics in Venezuela and the United Kingdom.
Wilkens, Matthew
Matthew Wilkens is associate professor of information science at Cornell University, where he works on data-intensive approaches to literary studies. He is the author of Revolution: The Event in ...
Williams, Jeffrey J.
Jeffrey J. Williams is a professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. For fall 2019, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the ...
Williams, Daniel
Daniel Williams is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College. He works on 19th-century British literature and contemporary South African literature. Recent articles have appeared in ELH ...
Wilson, Jennifer
Jennifer Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays on Russian and African American writers have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Atlantic ...
Wilson, William Julius
William Julius Wilson is Geyser University Professor at Harvard. A recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor bestowed in the United States, his many publications ...
Wing, Carlin
Carlin Wing is an artist, media scholar, and assistant professor and chair of media studies at Scripps College. Her current book project, “Bounce: A History of Balls, Walls, and Gaming Bodies,” ...
Winterbottom, Tom
Tom Winterbottom last wrote for Public Books about disaster capitalism and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He was the guest editor of a June 2018 special issue of the Peace Review journal on the ...
Witt, Emily
Emily Witt is the author of Future Sex (2016). She has written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and n+1 and lives in Brooklyn. (Author photograph by Noah Kalina)
Wohlstadter, Eric
Eric Wohlstadter is pursuing an MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he is the Iowa Arts Fellow.
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew
Matthew Wolf-Meyer is trained as a cultural anthropologist and social historian and is fixated on the history and contemporary practice of medicine and science in the US and the ways they naturalize ...
Wong, Amy R.
Amy R. Wong is an associate professor of English at Dominican University of California. She lives in Oakland and writes about Victorian literature, media theory, race, and coloniality.
Wong, Stephanie
Originally from the Chicago area and now living in Mexico City, Stephanie Wong is a writer, editor, artist, and graduate student. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Los Angeles ...
Wray, Matt
Matt Wray is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University. He is the author of Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006) and editor of ...
Wright, Daniel
Daniel Wright is an associate professor of English at the University of Toronto and the author of Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
Wright, Esther
Esther Wright is a lecturer in digital history at Cardiff University, UK. She teaches, researches, and writes about historical videogames, promotional materials, and developer branding. Her first ...