E. Ann Matter is former Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies, biblical interpretation and sacred music.
King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA.
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
Andrew J. Newman holds the chair of Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.
Hilton Obenzinger is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is a postcolonial theorist and literary critic.
Barbara Gold Taylor is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.
Aneesh Aneesh is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology. Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs and the global studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at Stanford University and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field of algorithmic governance in the social sciences. Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global, Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.
Raymond H. Thompson is a Canadian scholar of medieval literature specializing in King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, and in the reinterpretation of this material in modern literature. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Acadia University in Canada.
Waldemar Heckel is a Canadian historian.
Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist, folklorist and writer.
Bonnie Costello is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University. Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden, and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting and still life.
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she was an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders. She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018–2019 school year. Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism was published in November 2018. It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.
Elizabeth Lunbeck is an American historian. She is Professor of the History of Science in Residence in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Peter Uvin is a Belgian-born American political scientist. He is a professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He was the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. He resigned that position on 28 August 2020. He is the author of four books, including Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda, which won the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association in 1999.
Dan Stone is an English historian. He is professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and director of its Holocaust Research Institute. Stone specializes in 20th-century European history, genocide, and fascism. He is the author or editor of several works on Holocaust historiography, including Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and an edited collection, The Historiography of the Holocaust (2004).
Beth Piatote is a Nimi:pu: scholar and author. She is a member of Chief Joseph’s Tribe and the Colville Confederated Tribes. Piatote is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies in the department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Piatote holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.
Miriamne Ara Krummel is an American professor of English at the University of Dayton, and a scholar of Jewish studies. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and has a master's degree from Hunter College and Ph.D. from Lehigh University. Her 2002 dissertation was Fables, Facts, and Fictions: Jewishness in the English Middle Ages, directed by Patricia Clare Ingham.
Tison Pugh is a literary scholar. He has been a professor of English at the University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2006. Before coming to UCF, Pugh was a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, in the 2000–2001 academic year.
Andrew MayFRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.
