Contributors

Laura Dalman

PhD candidate, University of Tasmania

PhD candidate, University of Tasmania Laura Dalman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies focusing on Southern Ocean ice-associated primary producers. She is interested in how physical and biological processes influence the magnitude, composition, and phenology of marine primary production and nutrient dynamics.

Letizia Gaja Pinoja

PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) Doctorante en Histoire et Politique Internationale à le Geneva Graduate Institute,Letizia Gaja Pinoja effectue des recherches sur l'histoire coloniale et post-coloniale suisse

Leila Tarakji

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University Leila Tarakji is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching focus on Islam and Muslim Studies, with a particular interest in the lives and experiences of Muslims in America. She is also a core faculty member in the Muslim Studies Program at MSU. Leila received her doctoral degree from the Department of English at MSU. Her research in Muslim American literary studies explores how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural identities through narrative and how they participate in the production of American literature and the U.S. cultural imaginary. Her work also considers how Muslim texts define Islam in America and engage with representations of their faith and community in U.S. media and culture. She is working on a manuscript that elaborates on how Muslim Americans articulate their “Muslimness” while situating themselves within the broader Umma or Muslim community.

Laura Goldblatt

Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia

Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia Laura Goldblatt is a literary and cultural studies scholar of state propaganda and material culture in the twentieth-century United States. Additionally, she has written about the university as a critical site of activist intervention and the impact of its built environment and labor practices on local housing markets and economic precarity. Her peer-reviewed work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly, the Journal of American Studies, Social Text, Winterthur Portfolio, Pedagogy, Works and Days, and an edited volume about the August 12th, 2017 violence in Charlottesville. She is currently at work on two monographs. The first, After Destiny: Propaganda, Settler Colonialism, and Community, explores the reception of state-sponsored reproductions of literary and popular texts about U.S. national expansion that were used for propagandistic purposes. Yet rather than focusing on the formal features of the artifacts themselves, she examines their use value for groups dispossessed by the logic of late capitalism, such as Native and Black Americans, during the long twentieth century. Additionally, along with Professor of Anthropology Richard Handler, she is writing a monography about twentieth-century U.S. postage stamps that takes moral circulation as its theme.

Lynda Collins

Full Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Full Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Full Professor with the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability. Counsel with Ecojustice Canada.

Louise Thanem Wallenberg

Professor, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University

Professor, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University In my research, which is interdisciplinary, I combine theoretical perspectives, qualitative methods and materials belonging to the areas of fashion studies, film studies, gender studies and queer theory. I am also interested in work life questions and in organizations and I often collaborate with scholars in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.