Fernando Coronil (1944–2011) was Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela, and coeditor of States of Violence and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline.
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).
Laurent Dubois is Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University.
Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.
Nadève Ménard is Professor of Literature at the École Normale Supérieure, Université d’État d’Haïti.
Millery Polyné is Associate Professor of History at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Chantalle F. Verna is Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Florida International University.
