Rachel Brown Is Co-Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching interests include feminist and queer political theory, settler colonialism, Marxist feminism, labor migration, transnational feminisms, and the politics of debt. Brown earned her doctorate from The Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2017. Her book manuscript, Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in Feminist Theory, Political Theory, Race & Class, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Theory & Event, and Global Networks.

Elizabeth Anker is Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the George Washington University, and Director of the Film Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of political theory and cultural criticism, with a focus on expressions of freedom, violence, and power in US politics and culture. She is the author of Ugly Freedoms (Duke, 2022), which won honorable mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize for the Best Book in American Studies, and Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke, 2014), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, which won honorable mention for the Lora Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies. Anker currently serves as co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Theory & Event.