American Quarterly

Neel Ahuja

Neel Ahuja is the author of Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (Duke University Press, 2016) and Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). He is a Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Evelyn Alsultany

Evelyn Alsultany is associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College. She is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022) and Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2012). She is coeditor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2011) and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2013).

Simon Balto

Simon Balto is Assistant Professor of History and College of Letters and Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). This essay is informed by his current book project, contracted with Liveright, on the history of white racist terrorism in the United States and the criminal punishment system's refusals and incapacities to deal with it.

Mary L. Dudziak

Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, is a leading historian of American law and of the United States and the world. She is past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She is currently writing about the decline of democratic restraints on US war power: Going to War: An American History (under contract, Oxford University Press).

Roderick A. Ferguson

Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California Press, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). He is the coeditor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011). He is also coeditor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords for African American Studies (NYU Press, 2018). He is the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS).

Kevin K. Gaines

Kevin K. Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia, with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. He is the author of The African American Journey: A Global History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His current book project, "The World the Civil Rights Movement Made," argues that internal tensions within the movement and among African Americans gave rise to subsequent Black thought and activism that envisioned expansive democratic conceptions of human rights and liberation. He is the author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association. His book, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is a past president of the American Studies Association (2009–10).

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (Tovaangar). She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press, 2022). She is currently working on a second book project, tentatively entitled Revisiting the Southern Question: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South.

Dallas Hunt

Dallas Hunt is...