Joanna Allan is an Associate Professor of Global Development at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on resistance to neocolonial natural resource exploitation, histories of women’s anti-colonial resistance movements, environmental justice, and the relationship between energy and culture. In 2022, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work. Joanna’s first book Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing (Wisconsin University Press 2019) offers histories of women’s resistance to colonialism, occupation and dictatorships in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during and since the Spanish colonial period.
Thalia Anthony is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research explores the intersection of penal systems with colonization, and is laid bare in her books Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment (Routledge 2013) and Decolonising Criminology (Palgrave Macmillan 2019, with Blagg). As a Cypriot settler, she works in solidarity with First Nations organizations, including Deadly Connections, Tangentyere and Aboriginal legal services, to challenge carceral-colonialism.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and non-resident fellow of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival and a trustee of the Institute for Policy Studies. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including Gaza In Context and Black Palestinian Solidarity. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, and Al Jazeera. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC and NPR, among others.
Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London, and has been appointed as Head of the Law Department from September 2018 - September 2022. She joined Queen Mary University of London in September 2014 following seven years as Professor of Law and Criminology at King’s College London. She studied Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University before undertaking graduate studies and a doctorate in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. Professor Green has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, Turkish criminal justice and politics, ‘natural’ disasters, genocide, mass forced evictions, and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Egypt, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia and Myanmar. She has secured over £1.5 million of Research Council funding, including four major grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Professor Green is Founder and Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) - a multi-disciplinary international initiative to collate, analyse and disseminate research-based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them. ISCI is based at QMUL and partnered with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Ulster University and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Professor Green’s most recent projects include a comparative study of civil society resistance to state crime in Turkey, Tunisia, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Kenya and Myanmar; Myanmar’s genocide against its Muslim ethnic Rohingya population; and forced evictions in Palestine/Israel. Her seminal work, with ISCI colleagues, on the Rohingya genocide (Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar 2015; and Genocide Achieved, Genocide Continues: Myanmar’s Annihilation Of The Rohingya 2018) has drawn widespread global attention. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Ulster University, and Adjunct Professor at Birzeit University. She has also held visiting fellowships at the University of Melbourne, Latrobe University, Monash University, and Bosphorus University; is a Trustee of the People’s Palace Projects, the Democratic Progress Institute and was a Trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform for eight years. She is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, co-editor in Chief of the international journal State Crime and Editor of the Routledge State Crime monograph series.
Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist who works to uplift the lived experiences, histories and political contributions of Palestinian women and Palestinian feminism. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Palestinian American Research Center and the National Endowment for Humanities. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, a member of the executive board of Insaniyyat, the society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross.
Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College and author of Resisting State Violence (University of Minnesota Press 1996); Shadowboxing (Palgrave Macmillan 1999); Transcending the Talented Tenth (Routledge 1997); Seeking the Beloved Community (SUNY Press 2013); In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love (Divided Publishing 2022); New Bones Abolition (Common Notions Press 2023); Contextualizing Angela Davis (Bloomsbury 2024); and editor of: The New Abolitionists (SUNY Press 2005); Imprisoned Intellectuals (Rowman & Littlefield 2003); Warfare in the American Homeland (Duke University Press 2007); and The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Wiley Blackwell 1998).
Abeer Otman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Researching and Embedding Human Rights (CREHR) Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Abeer has a doctorate in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral research focused on fathers and fatherhood in a settler colonial context: the case of occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ). Her research interests include fatherhood, father–child connectivities, trauma and suffering, secrecy and surveillance, liveability, hope, futurity and higher education. She holds a master’s degree in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her experience in studying the OEJ community includes researching child arrest, women’s access to justice and the socio-economic impacts of the annexation wall with local NGOs and the United Nations.
Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an interdisciplinary critical race and feminist scholar whose work engages several fields including sociology, legal studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, American studies and political science. With a central focus on racial violence, she explores how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy interlock to produce and sustain a racially structured world where racialized populations are marked as disposable and subjected to unrelenting violence. Her books and publications examine settler-colonialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and global white supremacy with a particular focus on the gendered effects of anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, anti-Asian and anti-Muslim racism as they operate in law. Her most recent books are: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (University of Minnesota Press 2022) and Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (University of Toronto Press 2015).
Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies, and director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research includes work on the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multiethnic states, decolonization and transitional justice in settler colonial regimes, and the encounter between Zionism and the Palestinians. His publications include Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (Yale University Press 1997), Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State (ed., Cambridge University Press 2017) and When Politics are Sacralized: An International Comparative Perspective on Religious Claims and Nationalism (eds. alongside Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Cambridge University Press 2021). He has held various academic positions in Palestinian, Israeli, and American universities including at Harvard University, Boston College, MIT and George Mason University. He was a co-founder of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs where he co-chaired the Center’s Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution from 1992–2001. He is the Founding Director (2000–2017), of Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, in Haifa.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian ( نادرة شلهوب-كيفوركيان) is a native Palestinian anti-violence feminist, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law—Queen Mary University of London. Her scholarship focuses on knowledge production in relation to accumulative trauma, state criminality, surveillance, gender violence, and law and society. Author of Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study (Cambridge University Press 2010); Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge University Press 2015); Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press 2019); co-edited volumes Engaged Students in Conflict Zones, Community-engaged Courses in Israel as a Vehicle for Change (Palgrave Macmillan Press 2019); When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism (Cambridge University Press 2021), and The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press 2023).
Stephen Sheehi (اسطفان شيحا-he/him) is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and a member of the faculty of the Asian and Middle East Studies Program (AMES), Modern Languages and Literatures Department, and Asian and Pacific Islander Studies Program (APIA) at William & Mary, Pamunkey Confederacy Territory USA. He is also the Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. Sheehi is the author of five books and numerous articles about the Arab world, photography, and psychoanalysis, as well as Islamophobia and racism in North America. Most recently, he is co-author of Palestine: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi (Routledge 2022), which has won the Palestine Book Award for Best 2022 Academic Book on Palestine; and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories, co-authored with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar (University of California Press 2022). His current book project is Slutty Methodologies: On the Intimacies of Guerillas.
Sunera Thobani is a Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship is located at the intersection of the Social Sciences and Humanities. She studies and works on critical race, postcolonial, transnational and feminist theory; South Asian women’s, gender and sexuality studies; representations of Islam and Muslims in South Asian and Western media; South Asian diasporic films; Muslim women, Islamophobia and the war on terror; intersectionality, social movements and critical social theory; colonialism, indigeneity and racial violence; and globalization, citizenship and migration. The geographical areas of her research include Canada, the US, South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Her academic work follows in the tradition of the scholarship of engagement, it is informed by her activism in the anti-racist, feminist and anti-war movements. In this capacity, she has served as Director of the Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age (RAGA) Center, which laid the groundwork for a Critical Race Studies Program at UBC (2008–2012); Founding Member, Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE) Canada (2001–Present); Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University (1996–2000); President, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada (1993–1996). Her research and teaching address emergent issues of concern to disenfranchised and dispossessed communities, including within the University. She has spoken at, and helped organize numerous international women’s conferences, including the NGO Forum at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China; the First International Women’s Conference on APEC in Manila, Philippines; the first Asian-Pacific Women’s Conference in the US; the National Association of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Councilors; and the Black Feminism conference in the UK.
Loubna Qutami is a Brown University Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Qutami is a former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2018–2020) and received her PhD from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside (2018) and an MA from the College of Ethnic Studies: Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas program at San Francisco State University (2013). Qutami’s research examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo Accords through the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Her work is based on scholar-activist ethnographic research methods. Qutami’s broader scholarly interests include Palestine, critical refugee studies, the racialization of Arab/Muslim communities in the US, settler-colonialism, youth movements, transnationalism, and indigenous and Third World Feminism. Qutami was a co-founder of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and is currently a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC).