Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, currently the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans.
Robbie Shilliam researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. He is co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series, Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Question. Robbie was a co-founder of the Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial working group of the British International Studies Association and is a long-standing active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association.
Joshua Simon is a political theorist of South and North Americas, now based at the Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Reed College, Yale University, and the Colegio de México, and taught at the New School for Social Research, King’s College London, and Columbia University. In 2018-19, he was the Fulbright-García Robles Chair of U.S. Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexíco (ITAM).... Read more about Joshua Simon
Artur Simonyan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tartu School of Law and senior fellow at KFG Berlin-Potsdam "International Rule of Law-Rise or Decline?" Research Group. His research interests include regionalism and international law, as well as the history and theory of international law, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet Eurasian region.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is an intellectual historian of modern political thought with a specific focus on Europe and the world from the Cold War to the present. He addresses such topics as liberalism, conservatism, populism, secularism, religion and the Global Cold War. He is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.
Anna Stilz is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self-determination, rights to land and territory, and collective agency. She also has a strong interest in modern political thought (especially natural law theory, Rousseau, and Kant).
Duncan Stuart works on political theory and the history of political thought with a particular focus on ideas of equality and emancipation. In particular... Read more about Duncan Stuart
David Suell is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on African political thought, anticolonialism, philosophy of time, and critical theory. David’s dissertation, “Temporalities of Struggle: African Political Thought and Contesting the Foundations of Colonial Capitalism,” brings these elements together in order to rethink the relationships among time, power, and political membership.
Omer Topal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His research interests include the nineteenth century Ottoman modernization, social and political history of the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. His articles appeared in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish Studies. His contribution to the inaugural Conference of the Association for Global Political Thought, "Ottoman Internationalism" is published in International History Review.
Nadia Urbinati (PhD, European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist interested in modern and contemporary political thought, democratic and anti-democratic traditions. Currently the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University, she has taught and conducted research at New York University, University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil, as well as Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna of Pisa and Università degli Studi di Torino in Italy. An award-winning author of numerous books including the most recent Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard, 2019), Urbinati also co-edits the journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.
Gülin is a Ph.D. student in Political Theory at the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research interests include global political institutions, sovereignty, territorial justice, duties to the land and environment, and Indigenous political thought. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science (with distinction) from Stanford University.
Christie van Tinteren is an anthropologist researching relationships between industrial change, time, memory, and inequality in rural Britain. Currently finishing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, his thesis examines a fishing town and two villages on the Cornish coast. On top of his present-day ethnographic work, he has gathered dozens of memoirs and diaries, written over the past 150 years in these locations. With these records, he is reconstructing insights into the socioeconomic, infrastructural, and political development of the area.
Isabella M. Weber is a German-born political economist and economic historian of modern China, currently Assistant Professor of Economics at UMass and Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at PERI. Having studied at Freie Universität Berlin, Peking University, New School for Social Research, and the University of Cambridge, she taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, and directed the Economic and Social Research Council (UK)-funded research project “What drives specialisation? A century of global export patterns”, before joining University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she has proved a formidable voice for understanding economic thought, economic history, as well as the normative premises and visions of economics. She is the author of the widely-acclaimed book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (discussed in this interview). Her work combines economic theory, economic history and China studies to examine the interaction between economic thinking, policy and long-term structural patterns in periods of deep social transformation. Beyond the walls of academia, she has regularly served as a China expert for BBC News and as adviser to members of the German parliament on China issues.... Read more about Isabella Weber
Anna Wherry is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School. Her research has examined the circulation of legal concepts and the development of criminal jurisprudence across the Americas, especially in Colombia and the United States. More recently, she has investigated the movement of prisoners between both countries. She is currently a post-graduate fellow with Yale’s Lowenstein Center for International Human Rights. As a fellow, she provides legal assistance to former FARC combatants at Colombia’s transitional court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
