Abdel-Shehid, Gamal is Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science and Graduate Program Director of Social and Political Thought at York University, where he teaches the course ‘Fanon and his Interlocutors’. He is author of Who Da’ Man: Black Masculinites and Sporting Cultures and (with Nathan Kalman-Lamb) Out of Left Field: Sports and Social Inequality. His recent work has appeared in Social Identities, CLR James Journal and Philosophy and Global Affairs. He is currently working on a monograph entitled In light of the Master: Fanon and his Interlocutors.
Balcom, Christopher is a doctoral candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University.
Brophy, Susan Dianne received her PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University and is serving as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo (Canada). Her research focuses on the theory and history of law and capitalism as well as anticolonialist methodology and analysis, and she has published in such journals as Constellations, European Journal of Political Theory, Labour/Le travail, Law and Critique, and Settler Colonial Studies.
Canefe, Nergis’ areas of interest are memories of atrocities and injustice and the way they shape the notion of citizenship for marginalized groups, critical studies of human rights, genocide and crimes against humanity, the relationship between nationalism and minority rights in the Balkans and the Middle East, forced migration, and debates on ethics in international law pertaining to mass political violence. She is the author of Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Perspectives from the Global South (2019) and Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet [Nationalism, Identity and Belonging] (2006) and editor of The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics Religion and Belonging (2007).
Gasteiger, Tyler is a PhD student at York University’s graduate program in Social and Political Thought. He is interest in the continuing significance of classical German philosophy and transcendental phenomenology for the philosophical foundations of contemporary critical social theory.
Gibson, Nigel C. is the author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa (2011) and Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003), which won the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award and co-author, with Roberto Beneduce, of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (2017). He is the editor of seven books including three on Frantz Fanon, Rethinking Fanon (1999), Living Fanon (2011) and the forthcoming Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (2021). Gibson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Emerson College, Boston, and Honorary Professor, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Glick, Jeremy M. is an Associate Professor of African Diaspora literature and modern drama at City University of New York – Hunter College. He is completing a monograph entitled Coriolanus Against Liberalism/ Lumumba & Pan-Africanist Loss and a short volume on Jacques Lacan’s commentary on Goya’s Caprichos in discussion with Black Radical Poetics. An essay from this project has been recently published online in A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought under the title ‘Re-Punctuating Amiri Baraka and W. E. B. DuBois with Francisco de Honore Goya’. Glick received the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize for his 2016 book, The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution.
Kipfer, Stefan teaches politics, urbanization and planning in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. His research is focused on the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial theoretical traditions as well as the role of urban questions in the historical geographies of modern capitalism. He has published numerous articles and book chapters. He is the author of Le temps et l’espace de la (dé)colonisation (2019) and the co-editor of Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre (2008, with Kanishka Goonewardena, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid) as well as Gramsci, Nature, Space, Politics (2013, with Mike Ekers, Gillian Hart, Alex Loftus).
McCall, Sophie is a settler scholar in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her main areas of research and teaching are Indigenous literary studies in Canada from the 20th and 21st centuries. She has published widely on topics such as textualizing oral history, the struggle for Indigenous rights, decolonization, resurgence, and reconciliation. She is the author of First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (UBC P, 2011), a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for English Canadian literary criticism and the Canada Prize from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is co-editor of Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfred Laurier UP 2017); The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP Books 2015); Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada (WLUP 2012); and editor of Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins (U Manitoba P, 2014), the first book-length life narrative published by an Indigenous woman author in Canada.
Morera, Esteve is Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Politics at York University. His research and teaching interests include political theory, philosophy of history, African philosophy, and Gramsci. He is the author of Gramsci, Materialism, and Philosophy (2014) and a number of articles on Gramsci and Vico.
Noonan, Jeff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. He is the author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference (2003), Democratic Society and Human Needs (2006), Materialist Ethics and Life-Value (2012), Embodiment and the Meaning of Life (2018), The Troubles with Democracy (2019) and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He also writes regularly for alternative and progressive websites in Canada and abroad and maintains an active blog at www.jeffnoonan.org.
Noori, Sofia is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education. She is also a PhD alumnus from the department of Social and Political Thought at York University. She recently received the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award (2020) for her praxis at the Faculty of Education at York University. She specializes in the field of refugee subjectivity, trauma narratives and education in Canada. She is currently working on her monograph entitled Living Within Hyphenated Paradoxes- The Canadian Adolescent Refugee Experience.
Taylor, Patrick is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Humanities and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. A Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), his publications include The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics, Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (editor), and The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions (co-editor). His current research focuses on historical and literary constructions of whiteness and blackness in Barbados.
Sekyi-Otu, Ato is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He is best known for his work on Frantz Fanon and Ayi Kwei Armah. His most notable publications are Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (1996) and Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays (2019). The latter won the 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Association Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award. Partisan Universalism commemorates, provides scholarly critique and honors Ato’s academic work and contribution.
Táíwò, Olúfémi is Professor of African Political Thought and current Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A. His research interests include Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, Marxism, and African and Africana Philosophy. Táíwò is the author of Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996; Paperback 2015), (Chinese Translation, 2013); How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010) and Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2012), (North American Edition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014). He was joint editor with Olutoyin Mejiuni, Patricia Cranton of Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015). His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. He has taught at universities in Canada, Nigeria, Germany, South Korea, and Jamaica.