R. Scott Carey is a grant writer with a PhD in Kinesiology and Health Studies from Queen’s University.
Isabel MacQuarrie is a Juris Doctor candidate at Harvard Law School with an MA in sociology from Queen’s University.
Victoria N. Millious is a PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University.
Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of the Species (Duke University Press, 2016). His articles have appeared in GLQ, Social Text, and PMLA, among other venues.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. This Wound Is a World was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. His second book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, will be published in fall 2019.
Matthew R. Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2008) and Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (Stanford University Press, 2015).
Lauren Corman is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. She is the editor of a special issue of UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, co-editor of Animal Subjects 2.0 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016), and the founder and former producer of the radio program Animal Voices.
Naisargi N. Dave is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in Social Text, Cultural Anthropology, and Feminist Studies, among other venues. Her book in progress is titled The Social Skin: Humans and Animals in India.
Maneesha Deckha is a professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria.
María Elena García is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.
Sharon P. Holland is the Townsend Ludington Term Distinguished Endowed Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000) and The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012). She blogs at http:// theprofessorstable.wordpress.com / and is currently working on an investigation of the human–animal distinction, and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion.
Kelly Struthers Montford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Punishment, Law and Social Theory at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Alberta in 2017. Her work has appeared in the New Criminal Law Review, PhiloSophia, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, among other venues.
Kim TallBear is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books Ecofeminism, Defiant Daughters, Occupy!; Stay Solid; and Infinite City.
Harlan Weaver is assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at Kansas State University.
Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Hypatia entitled “Animal Others” (Gruen & Weil, 2012) and author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now (Columbia University Press, 2012). Her book Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France: Mobility, Magnetism, Meat is forthcoming.
Cary Wolfe is Dunleive Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” and What Is Posthumanism? and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota. He edits the Posthumanities series for Minnesota.