Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court. She studied literature at Yale (B.A. 1995) and at Oxford (D.Phil 1999) where she was a Marshall Scholar. Her first book, Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing, was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. Professor Suk is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002), where she studied as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and was on the Harvard Law Review. Her recent writing has focused on criminal law and family law. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Wall Street Journal, Slate.com, and elsewhere. Her new book, At Home in the Law, is published by Yale University Press in 2009. (Photo: Nina Subin)

Jean-Philippe Belleau is a social anthropologist. He received his doctorate from the Institut des Hautes Études d'Amérique Latine at the Sorbonne University. His dissertation on the indigenous movement in Brazil argued that the presence of traditional political institutions and social networks amongst Jê, Arawak, and Karib groups played a significant role in allowing the historical emergence of supra-village leadership and new mobilizing structures and discourse. Prior to that, he worked for a decade in human rights and development with the United Nations, the OAS, UNDP, ADF, and various NGOs, and was the Political Adviser to the OAS Chief of Mission in Haiti. He directed the Human Rights Education program of the Human Rights Fund in Haiti. He is currently involved with a demilitarization project for the Brazilian organization Viva Rio in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He has published on eighteenth-century anthropology, anti-indigenous violence in Brazil, and mass violence in Haiti. His current research project examines ethnic identity appropriation.

Andreas Fischer is Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin where he teaches late antique and early medieval history. In his Ph.D, he worked on cardinals and the long vacancy of the years 1268 to 1271 (published as Kardinäle im Konklave. Die lange Sedisvakanz der Jahre 1268 bis 1271 in 2008). Currently, his main research interests include narrativity and patterns of interpretation in early medieval historiography, especially in the so-called Chronicle of Fredegar, and letters and letter-collections in late antiquity and the middle ages.

Nirvana Tanoukhi received her doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2009. Her research engages a wide range of fields including: the novel of Africa, the Arab world, and their diasporas; postcolonial literature and criticism; formalist and contextualist analysis in literary history; uneven development in the history and theory of the novel; world literature in world history; cultural geography; and translation in theory and practice. Her current book project, The Scale of World Literature: Strategies of Contextualization in the Postcolonial Novel and Beyond, delineates a postcolonial critique of western historicism and literary realism, which writers and critics from Africa and its diaspora evolved around the form of the novel and its nationalist associations to consolidate claims to geographic specificity. She is co-editor (with Bruce Robbins and David Palumbo-Liu) of an essay collection--Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2010)--which articulates the stakes of a humanistic intervention in the globalization debates. Tanoukhi has published articles in Research in African Literatures and New Literary History, and is contributing an African chapter to the Routledge Companion to World Literature. She is translator of two Arabic novels: Passage to Dusk by Rachid al-Daif and Maryam of the Stories by Alawiyya Subuh.

Detlef von Daniels studied Philosophy, Law, and Art History in Frankfurt, Vienna, New York, and Leipzig. He received his Ph.D from University of Göttingen in 2006. His book on The Concept of Law from a Transnational Perspective, examining how current changes in the course of globalization can be integrated into legal theory, will be published in 2010. His main research interests include legal philosophy, political philosophy, and bioethics. He is currently working on a monograph about the idea of the Commonwealth as a form of a post-statal political theory.

Christina Wald is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She received her Ph.D from the University of Cologne in 2006. Her publications include Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), a co-edited essay collection on repetition (Kippfiguren der Wiederholung; Peter Lang 2007) and articles on early modern drama and prose, contemporary drama, Jane Austen films, and feminist and gender theory. She is currently working on her post-doc research project Figures of Transformation: Transubstantiation, Disguise and Transculturation in Early Modern Prose Fiction and on an essay collection on the cultural history of melancholia.

Mary Anderson is a visual artist and writer. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary aesthetics that theorizes an integral relation among Christ, representation, and the formation of human subjectivity. Through a critical poetics it seeks to develop a theology of representation in which Christ and subjectivity are understood through a constitutive difference that appears as rupture or wound and inscribes ‘the holy’ within human consciousness. A visiting professor in the graduate program at Massachusetts College of Art, Anderson has taught at Harvard Divinity School, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Maine College of Art. She has published essays on art and theology in exhibition catalogs, Religion and the Arts and Harvard Theological Review. As a visual artist, Anderson has received fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Art Matters, Inc., Fulbright Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and held residencies at Millay Colony for the Arts and Ucross Foundation. In 2007, she received a Tata Summer Research Grant from the South Asian Initiative at Harvard for work in India on representation and religious subjectivity in the Ajanta and Ellora caves. (Photo: M. Kantor)

Antara Datta is a final year Ph.D student in History. Before coming to Harvard she obtained degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Delhi. Her academic interests centre around the intersection of creation of nation states and the violence that often accompanies this process. Her dissertation studies the social history of the Bangladesh war of 1971 focussing on the terrible, almost genocidal violence that erupted and the movement of ten million refugees to India. She is using to this to ask questions about nations, nationalism, and policies of inclusion and exclusion in South Asia.