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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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NIKITA DHAWAN is a professor of political theory and gender studies and director of the research platform “Gender Studies: Identities—Discourses—Transformations” at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author of Impossible Speech: On the Politics of Silence and Violence (Academia, 2007) and editor of Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World (Budrich, 2014), and of Difference That Makes No Difference: The Non‐Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity, a special issue of Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies (2017). She co‐edited Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy (Routledge, 2015) and Negotiating Normativity: Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations (Springer, 2016). ()

KRISTIE DOTSON is an associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Her research is at the intersections of epistemology and women of color feminism, particularly Black feminism. She also works in diversity and metaphilosophy. Dr. Dotson edited a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy entitled Interstices: Inheriting Women of Color Feminist Philosophy (29:1, 2014) and has published in numerous journals, including Comparative Philosophy, Hypatia, The Black Scholar,Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and Social Epistemology. Dr. Dotson is currently working on a monograph entitled “Varieties of Epistemic Oppression.” ()

LAURA ENGEL is a doctoral student in the Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy Program at Binghamton University, New York. Her research interests include social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and metaethics. She is currently a visiting instructor in the Philosophy Department at St. Olaf College. ()

SABA FATIMA is an assistant professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She has published on social and political issues faced by Muslims in publications such as Social Theory and Practice, Hypatia,Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, and Social Philosophy Today. Her research interests include virtue ethics, nonideal theory, social and political theory within prescriptive Islam, Muslim/Muslim‐American issues within a framework of feminist and race theory, and recently, medical humanities. ()

DOUGLAS WILLIAM HANES recently completed his doctorate in political science at McGill University. His research focuses on the relationship between agency and affect in feminist theory. ()

KAREN B. HANNA is completing her PhD in feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary research documents the history of the anti‐imperialist Filipina/o Left in North America, beginning with the political exile of activists during the Martial Law period in the Philippines, and traces the Left's ideological shifts over time and across space. Her work has investigated how contradictions emerge and are resolved within community organizations and how organizers and activists address intra‐organizational conflict and find healing. ()

RANJOO SEODU HERR is an associate professor of philosophy at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass. She has published widely on topics of feminist, political, social, and comparative philosophy in peer‐reviewed journals, such as Hypatia, Meridians, Political Theory, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of International Political Theory, Journal of Global Ethics, Philosophical Forum, Philosophy East & West, Asian Philosophy, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Herr's current research interests are in Third World/transnational feminisms, theories of democracy, nationalism/collective self‐determination, human rights, multiculturalism, and global governance. ()

PETER HIGGINS is an associate professor of philosophy in the Department of History & Philosophy and a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Eastern Michigan University. His research is in social and political philosophy, which he approaches from a feminist perspective. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters and one book, Immigration Justice (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). ()

SERENE J. KHADER holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She works in moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in global gender justice. Her first book, Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment (Oxford, 2011), develops an approach to responding to choices made by oppressed and deprived people that perpetuate their condition. She is at work on a book on the normative underpinnings of transnational feminist solidarity. She is also an editor, with Ann Garry and Alison Stone, of the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. ()

HALEY KONITSHEK is a PhD candidate in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests include philosophical and empirical inquiry into questions of historical and cultural memory, the politics of truth and reconciliation post‐genocide, and indigenous and women of color feminisms across the Americas. Her dissertation, “Unwriting Guatemala,” engages a variety of intertextual narrative practices alongside Maya women's collective resistance and voices to offer “Una historia diferente,” a different history of MesoAmerican indigeneity. ()

JULIANA MARTÍNEZ is an assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, an associated faculty member in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and is an affiliated researcher in the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS), all at American University, Washington, D.C. She focuses on the intersection of body politics and violence in the Latin‐American and US Latino context. Her two main areas of research are gender and sexuality—particularly transgender studies—and the representation of historical violence in twentieth‐ and twenty‐first‐century Latin American cultural production. ()

SWATI MOITRA is an assistant professor of English at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include gender studies and women's history, South Asia studies (nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), cultural studies, and new media. She is currently working on new media and rumors in contemporary India. ()

CARMEN NAVE is an independent scholar with a PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto (2015). Her research on kinship among the Asante of Ghana focuses on the dynamic and nonlinear process of social change. ()

STELLA NYANZI is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from the University of London based on ethnographic fieldwork of youth sexualities and sexual and reproductive health in The Gambia. Her current research comprises ethnographic inquiry into the politicization of homosexualities in contemporary Uganda, with a focus particularly on unpacking mainstream religious framing of and contestations about sexual citizenship. Dr. Nyanzi is also conducting research about the vulnerability and resilience of young (refugee and internally displaced) women in Uganda toward HIV/AIDS. ()

SHELLEY PARK is professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended and Polygamous Families (SUNY Press, 2013) and associate editor of Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture. Her published work focuses primarily on queer kinship as informed by feminist philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer theory, and popular culture. She is currently working on a monograph exploring technologically mediated forms of care and intimacy. ()

A. MARIE RANJBAR is a PhD candidate in the Departments of Geography and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching interests include human rights, social and environmental justice, and transnational and postcolonial feminisms. Her current research focuses on intersections between human rights and environmental justice in Iran by examining how social movements use environmental conservation language to make broader rights claims against the state. ()

KARIE CROSS RIDDLE is a doctoral candidate in peace studies and political science in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently writing her dissertation, “Constructing Critical Feminist Justpeace: Feminist Political Thought and Women's Peacebuilding Praxis in Northeastern India.” Her research focuses on feminism, nonviolent activism, human rights, and human development. ()

SARA SALEM is a teaching and research fellow in the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick. Her research looks at questions of political economy, feminist and gender studies, postcolonialism, history, and Marxism in the particular context of the Middle East. ()

ADELLE SEFTON‐ROWSTON is a non‐Indigenous researcher in the areas of whiteness, postcolonialism and reconciliation. She lectures at Charles Darwin University, Australia and has a PhD in literary studies. She is a winner of the Northern Territory Literary Awards Essay Prize and a member of the Northern Territory Writers’ Centre board of management. Adelle also publishes creative writing and combines an academic approach with evocative empathy in her short stories and poetry. She is an active committee member of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) and of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). ()

SUNERA THOBANI is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia. Her scholarship focuses on critical race, postcolonial, and feminist theory; globalization, media, citizenship, and migration; and Muslim women and the War on Terror. Dr. Thobani is the author of Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2007); she is also co‐editor of Asian Women: Interconnections (Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005) and States of Race: Critical Race Feminist Theory for the 21st Century (Between the Lines, 2010). ()