Editorial collective

• Lauren Berlant

  University of Chicago

  Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English and director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago. Beginning with The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991) through The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997…

• Jean Comaroff

  University of Chicago

  Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Her publications include Body of Power, Spirit of Resis…

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  Brian T. Edwards

  Brian T. Edwards teaches literature and cultural studies at Northwestern University, where he is Director of Graduate Studies of English and co-Chair of the Middle East and North African Studies working group. He is the author of Morocco Bound: Disor…

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  Saba Mahmood

  University of California at Berkeley

  Saba Mahmood teaches anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005).

• Lisa Wedeen

  University of Chicago

  Lisa Wedeen is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her publications include Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999) and Peripheral Visions:…