Editors

Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also president and founder of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), based in Mumbai. He is the author of numerous books and…
Carol A. Breckenridge
The New School
Faisal Devji
The New School
Faisal Devji is associate professor of history at the New School in New York. He is the author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005) and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009).
Mamadou Diouf
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Northwestern University
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar is an Associate Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture and the Director of Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University. He is also the Director of Center for Transcultural Studies, an independent…
Marilyn Ivy
Columbia University
Marilyn Ivy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Ivy taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Washington. Her…

Claudio Lomnitz
Public Culture
Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology and editor of Public Culture. Prior to joining Columbia University, Lomnitz was distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School of Social Research and, before…
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Columbia University
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is the author of three books, Labor’s Lost (1994), The Cunning of Recognition (2002), and The Empire…
Janet Roitman
Janet Roitman is a member of the editorial committee of Public Culture and is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her book, Fiscal Disobedience (2005), is an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa…
Katie Trumpener
Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Alberta in 1982, an A.M. in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 1983…
