Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford UP, 2008).

Ariella Azoulay is the author of Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (2011, Verso) and The Civil Contract of Photography (2008, Zone Books). She is Curator of Untaken Photographs (2010, The Moderna galerija, Lubliana, Zochrot, Tel Aviv) and Architecture of Destruction (Zochrot, Tel Aviv).

Claudia Baracchi is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Universit� di Milano-Bicocca. She is the author of the study Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato�s Republic (2002) and Aristotle�s Ethics as First Philosophy (2008), as well as various articles on Greek philosophy, the philosophy of history, and the intersection of ancient thought and contemporary debates ranging from classical phenomenology to feminism and psychoanalysis. She is a co-founder of the Ancient Philosophy Society. Among her current projects are a book length research on the archaic experience of nature and a work on the question of war between Plato and Freud.

J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily in the areas of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, ethics, critical theory, and German Idealism. Among his books are: The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006); he edited and wrote the introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (New York, 2003). He is presently at work on book provisionally entitled: Torture and Dignity: Reflections on Moral Injury.

Nima Bassiri is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a dissertation on the history and philosophy of neuroscience.

Joshua Dubler is a postdoctoral fellow in Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities. His current book project, The Chapel, which is an ethnographic study of religious practice in prison, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hagar Kotef is a Mellon Postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows, Columbia University. Her Ph.D. is in philosophy, from Tel Aviv University. She works on political theory, specializing in feminist theory, early liberal philosophy, women�s activism and contemporary continental philosophy. Among her publications are essays in Signs, Theory Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, Mafteak�h and others. She is currently completing two book manuscripts. One is a genealogy of the politicization of the body in 19th Century liberal feminism (based on her dissertation). The other, co-authored with Merav Amir, is a spatial analysis of the checkpoints in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territories) as a political technology aiming at constructing new forms of political subjectivity.

Adi Ophir, Associate Professor at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and director of the Lexicon Project at The Minerva Humanities Centre at Tel Aviv University, is editor of Mafte'akh: Lexical Review for Political Theory, and Author of The Order of Evils (Zone Books 2005) and � with Ariella Azoulay � This Regime which is not One (Stanford UP, forthcoming).

Patrick Singy is a scholar-in-residence at Union Graduate College in the Center for Bioethics in Schenectady, NY. He holds a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University and Columbia University. His published articles cover diverse topics in the history of sexuality as well as historiography and Michel Foucault. He is working on a book on the history of sadism.

Annika Thiem is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. She currently works on the early 20th century German-speaking Left, especially the contributions of German- Jewish thinkers. Her first book Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility appeared with Fordham University Press in 2008. She has published articles on Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt that explore the relationship between rhetoric, critique, and politics and articles in feminist and queer theory that address the role of gender and sexuality in religious discourse.

Yves Winter is assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include early modern and modern European political theory as well as critical and social theory. He writes on theories of violence and conflict and on the ways in which violence has been conceptualized in modern European political thought and contemporary political discourse.