2024-2025 Decentralization ≠ Democracy: The Organization of Power & the Future of Social MediaJennifer Forestal Assistant Professor, Loyola University of Chicago Publics and Policing: Spies, Surveillance, and Colonial Subjects in Interwar Paris.Nancy Luxon Professor, University of Minnesota Creative Paranoia and Radical Democracy: the politics of SNNC and SDSGeorge Shulman Professor Emeritus, New York University Foundational Territories: Trans-national Territories for Complex Resource System ManagementCara Nine Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Imperfect Victims: Feminism and the Problem of Legible ResistanceMenaka Phillips Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto Writing Our Own Ends? 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Learning Anticolonial critique from Beavers and their BlockadesAndrew Dilts & Sarah Tyson Loyola Marymount University, UC Denver Responding to Riots: A Grounded Normativity Analysis of Recent UK Riot DiscourseJonathan Havercroft Associate Professor, University of Southampton Sid Issar Post Doc, University of Virginia Chiara Cordelli Associate Professor, University of Chicago Jennifer Rubenstein Associate Professor, University of Virginia 2020-2021 Subversive Pedagogies: Radical Possibility in the Academy.Claire Timperley Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, FreedomNeil Roberts Chair and Professor of Africana Studies, Williams College Never Could Learn to Drink that Blood and Call it Wine: Bob Dylan as Prophet of the PostsecularJeffrey Green Professor and Director of Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania Agonism, Democracy and the Moral Equality of VoiceStephen White Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia Revelations of the ImpossibleNaveed Mansoori Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia Why Deliberation? Hint: It's About DemocracyMolly Scudder Assistant Professor, Purdue University The Democratic Ambivalence of Invisible CitizensDaniel Henry PhD Candidate, University of Virginia 2018-2019 Rethinking Critique as a Political Practice of Freedom with Arendt and FoucaultLinda Zerilli Professor, University of Chicago Idle No More and the Settler-Colonial StateAndrew Gates PhD Candidate, University of Virginia Toni Morrison and the Liberatory Work of WordsLawrie Balfour Professor, University of Virginia Disruptive Sounds of the Present-Past: "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"Daniel Henry PhD. Candidate, University of Virginia Of Refuge and ReverieSharon Sliwinski University of Western Ontario Conceiving Medicalized Citizenship: Abortion Politics and Gendered Political BelongingClaire McKinney Assistant Professor, College William & Mary What Is Spontaneous Order?Dan Luban Junior Research Fellow, University College, Oxford Propaganda, Beauty, and the Moral Psychology of White Supremacy: On the Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du BoisRobert Gooding Williams Professor, Columbia University 2017-2018 Beyond Birmingham: King, Disobedience, and the Powers of Non-ViolenceAlexander Livingston Assistant Professor, Cornell University Thinking without History: Gandhi on PatienceUday Mehta Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY White World Order, Black Power Politics: Race in the Making of American International RelationsRobert Vitalis University of Pennsylvania What's the Problem with Geo-engineering?Ross Mittiga PhD Candidate, University of Virginia Seeing through Lies: Plato’s Republic on How to Avert TyrannyJill Frank Cornell University