Miguel Abensour is professor of political science at the University of Paris. He has published articles on Saint-Just, utopian socialism, and the Frankfort school, and his books include Critique de la Politique (2006) and La Democratie Contre l'Etat: Marx ed le Moment Machiavelien, Suivi de Democratie Sauvage ed Principe D'anarchie (2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Nasser Abufarha recently completed his doctorate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently preparing a book-length work on suicide-terrorism and self-sacrifice in Palestine for publication in the Cultures and Practices of Violence series with Duke University Press.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
C. Fred Alford is Professor of
Government and Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher at the University of
Maryland, College Park. He is author
of Whistleblowing: Broken Lives and
Organizational Power (2001) and, more
recently, Psychology and the Natural Law of
Reparation (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Farhana Ali, a Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, studies patterns of global terrorism, focusing on ideological drivers and motivations of various terrorist and extremist groups. She advises the United States and other governments on Islam and the root causes of suicide. Ali is a graduate of the George Washington University, where she studied with Jerrold Post.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Mary B. Anderson, Executive Director
of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects,
has worked in international development
and humanitarian assistance
for over 40 years. She is author of Do
No Harm: How Aid Supports Peace--or War (1999), a book that helps aid workers deal
with some of the complications of working
in conflict zones.
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Hannah Arendt taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago, and was University Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1968 until her death in 1975. Her books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1968), The Human Condition (1958), On Revolution (1963), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1964), Between Past and Future (1968), Men in Dark Times (1968), and The Life of the Mind (1975).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Aleida Assmann has been Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz since 1993. She has researched and published in the fields of history of media, literary anthropology,
and cultural memory.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Étienne Balibar was born in 1942. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent books in English include Politics and the Other Scenes (2002) and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Christian Barry is Editor of Ethics & International Affairs. He formerly directed the program on Justice and the World Economy at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and has served as a consultant and contributing author to several of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Reports. His recent publications include "Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle," "Redistribution," and (with Thomas Pogge, eds.) Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice (Blackwell).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Gordon Bazemore, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Community Justice Institute at Florida Atlantic University, is currently Principal Investigator of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Jean Philippe Béja is Research Director at CNRS/CERI. He holds degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), the University of Paris VII (Chinese), the Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ), the University of Liaonning (Chinese Literature) and a PhD in Asian Studies from University Paris VII. He was Scientific Director of the Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine (in Hong Kong) from 1993 to 1997 and Chief Editor of China Perspectives and Perspectives chinoises. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of China Perspectives and Perspectives chinoises. He supervises PhD dissertations at IEP and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Richard Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School University. His research focuses on American pragmatism, social and political philosophy, critical theory and Anglo-American philosophy. He is the author of many books, including: Radical Evil: A Philosophic Interrogation, (Polity, 2002); Freud and the Legacy of Moses, (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question, (The MIT Press, 1996).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Peg Birmingham, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (2006) and coeditor of Communism: Between Ethics and Politics (with van Haute, 1995). Her articles and book chapters on Hannah Arendt include “Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil,” in Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (Scott, ed., 2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Mia Bloom is an assistant professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens and the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005, 2007) and Living Together After Ethnic Killing (with Licklider, 2007). Bloom is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She regularly appears on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, NBC Nightly News, and MTV.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Lawrence Bobo is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. He is the author of many books including: Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities (co-author with Alice O'Connor, Russell Sage Foundation, 2001); Racialized Politics: The Debate on Racism in America (co-author with David Pears, University of Chicago Press, 2000);and Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (editor, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Michel Bonnin is a historian at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine of the Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales. He has written extensively on the Chinese pro-democracy movement, and just completed a book on the urbanized youth generation entitled La generation perdue (The Lost Generation), Paris, Editions de l’Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials, 2004. He has been the director of the French Centre on Contemporary China in Hong Kong, and is a member of the editorial board of China Perspectives.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
W. James Booth is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His most recent publications
include Communities of Memory: On Witness, Identity, and Justice (2006), “The Unforgotten. Memories of Justice” in American Political Science Review (2001), and “Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory and Debt” in American Political Science Review (1999).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Dan W. Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Social Medicine and Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School. He is also Director of the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health. His books include From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (with Buchanan, Daniels and Wikler, 2000).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Wang Chunguang, of the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is himself of peasant origin. He has done extensive work on migrations, particularly a book on the Zhejiang village, the Wenzhou community in Peking. He has also worked on Wenzhou people in Europe. At forty, he is one of the best specialists on migrations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Todd R. Clear is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. His books are Controlling the Offender in the Community (with V. O'Leary), Harm in American Penology, The Community Justice Ideal (with David Karp) and American Corrections (with G. Cole).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Frans de Waal is the C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. His publications include Animal Social Intelligence, Culture and Individualized Societies (co-authored with P. L. Tyack, Harvard University Press, 2003); Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (Harvard University Press, 2001); Natural Conflict Resolution (University of California Press, 2000); and Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (University of California Press, 1997) His research is pursued with chimpanzees, bonobos, several macaque species, and capuchin monkeys. His current research focuses on cultural learning, behavioral economics, empathy and communication.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
John J. Donohue III is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale University. His recent major articles include "Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate" (with Wolfers, 2005), and "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime" (with Levitt, 2001).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Mark Dow is author of American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons (2004). He lectures in English at Hunter College and the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Gerald Echterhoff is the author of several articles on communicative and social influences on memory and coeditor
(with M. Saar) of Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns (2002).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Summer 2008)
John Edwards, 2004 Vice Presidential candidate, was formerly U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He is the Director of the new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. His books include Political Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Local Justice (Russell Sage Foundation, 1992); Nuts and Bolts of Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 1989); and Solomonic Judgements (Cambridge University Press, 1989). His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice and the history of social thought. Currently, he is working on constitutional theory related to the ongoing changes in Eastern Europe.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Corinne Enaudeau is Professor of Philosophy in Paris (Preparatory Classes to the Ecole Normale Supérieure) and former Program director at the Collège international de philosophie. The author of Là-bas comme ici. Le paradoxe de la représentation (1998) and co-editor of La Méthode de l'expédient (2006), she publishes on Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-François Lyotard.
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. His publications include The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Bryan Garsten is assistant professor of political science at Yale University. He is the author of Saving Persuasion: a Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard 2006) and various articles on the themes of representative government, judgment and religion.
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Nancy Gertner is a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She has taught at the law schools of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and the University of Iowa. Judge Gertner is on the faculty of the American Bar Association - Central & Eastern European Law Initiative Advisory Council, and is also on its Advisory Board. Judge Gertner has traveled to China with the Spangenberg Group to train lawyers and women's rights advocates in the People's Republic of China, and also traveled there with Yale Law School's China Project to participate in a seminar, co-organized with the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She presently teaches sentencing at Yale Law School.
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Herbert Gintis is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, a member of the Santa Fe Institute external faculty and visiting Professor at Central European University and the University of Siena. He is very widely published. His most recent books are Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundation of Cooperation in Economic Life (co-authored with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr, MIT Press 2004); Foundations of Human Sociality: Ethnography and Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (co-authored with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Cramerer and Ernst Fehr, Oxford University Press, 2004). In 2000, Dr. Gintis won the Museum of Education Books of the Century award for Schooling in Capitalist America.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Peter Eli Gordon is Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in modern European intellectual history. He is the author of Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003), coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007), and author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (forthcoming).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Antonia Grunenberg is the director of the Hannah Arendt-Zentrum, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg and the editor of the Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger correspondence (Hannah Arendt und Martin Heidegger: Geschichte einer Liebe, 2006). Among her other publications are include Die Lust an der Schuld [The Desire for Guilt: The burden of the past on the political realm](2001) and the article on Arendt in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Gilles Guiheux is presently the Director of the French Centre on Contemporary China in Hong Kong, and the editor of China Perspectives. A sociologist, he specializes on the study of Chinese entrepreneurs in Taiwan and the PRC.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Gay L. Gullickson is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Spinners and Weavers of Auffay (1986) and Unruly Women of Paris (1996). She is currently working on a book-length study of the British Suffragettes. She holds graduate degrees in history and religion.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Wu Guoguang is at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria. He has been a journalist at the People Daily, and has served as a researcher in the Research Centre on the Reform of the Political System set up by former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang. He left China in 1988 and wrote a Ph.D in political sciences at Princeton University. He has been teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for eight years. He has written a book on the functioning of the Chinese political regime, and works on Chinese domestic affairs and foreign policy.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Bernard E. Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. His books include Against Prediction (2007), Language of the Gun (2005), and Illusion of Order (2001).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham is Director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. He has published, in addition to seventy articles and essays, eight books, the most recent of which are Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society, Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity, and The Character of Criticism.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Wolfgang Heuer is the managing editor of HannahArendt.net and a lecturer at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Citizen: Persönliche Integrität und politische Verantwortung: Rekonstruktion des politischen Humanismus Hannah Arendts (1992), Couragiertes Handeln (2002), and co-editor of Dichterisch Denken: Hannah Arendt und die Künste (2007).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
William Hirst is Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has edited three volumes and published numerous articles in topics as wide ranging as attention, amnesia, and social aspects of memory.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Jennifer Hochschild is a member of the Government Department at Harvard University and has a joint appointment in the Department of Afro-American Studies. She also has lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Professor Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy -- particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration -- and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. She is the author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
John Horgan is Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University. An applied psychologist by training, he is author of over 40 publications on terrorism and political violence. His books include The Psychology of Terrorism, The Future of Terrorism, and the forthcoming (in 2008) Walking Away from Terrorism.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Jean-François Huchet, a specialist in political economy, has written extensively on the Chinese economic transition. He has spent four years at the French Centre on Contemporary China in Hong Kong and two years at the Maison Franco-japonaise in Tokyo. A member of the editorial board of Perspectives chinoises, he has also co-edited the special issue of Esprit (n°2, Feb.2004), on the 25th anniversary of the 3rd plenum of the 11th Central Committee.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Qin Hui teaches at at the Department of History, Tsinghua University, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. A specialist in rural history, he distinguished himself as one of China’s most famous liberal intellectuals in the 1990s. Under contract from Tsinghua University, where he taught history, he was criticized by the authorities who threatened to cancel his contract. Qin Hui has written numerous books about economic transition in China. One of his articles has been translated into English, “China’s Reform,” in Contemporary Chinese Thought, Fall 2003, Vol35, N°1, pp.5-20.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Nicholas Humphrey is School Professor of Psychology at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics. He works on issues addressing Darwinian approaches to illness, and in particular on the evolutionary background of the placebo effect. He is the author of many books, most recently, The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Evolution and Psychology, (Oxford University Press, 2003); How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem, (Imprint Academic, 2000); and A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness, (Copernicus Books, 1999).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
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