Wajahat Ali is author of the award-winning play The Domestic Crusaders
and a consultant for the U.S. State Department. He is a contributing
op-ed writer for the New York Times.
Maximillian Alvarez is a dual-PhD candidate in History and Compar-
ative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is also a columnist
at the Baffler and hosts the podcast Working People.
Mark Bould teaches Film Studies at the University of the West of
England, Bristol, and is author of Science Fiction: The Routledge Film
Guidebook. He coedits the journal Science Fiction Film and Television.
Lisa Dillman teaches at Emory University. Her recent translations
have won the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Award, the 2016
Best Translated Book Award, and been shortlisted for the 2018 Dublin
Literary Award.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emeritus in Ethnic Studies at Cal-
ifornia State University. She is author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of
the United States and Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.
Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political
Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is author of
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.
Yuri Herrera is Associate Professor at Tulane University and author of
the novels Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, and The
Transmigration of Bodies, the translation of which (by Lisa Dillman)
won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award.
Michael Kimmage is Professor of History at the Catholic University of
America. He is author of In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy.
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