Akilesh Ayyar
Sifting to Truth
Areas of Specialization: Advaita Vedanta; jurisprudence;  psychology; psychoanalysis; Proust
Seminar: How to Find What Isn’t Lost

Ulrich Baer
New York University
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Areas of Specialization: German literature; poetry; poetics; Rilke; Baudelaire; continental philosophy; photography; trauma.
Seminars:
• Rilke’s Poetics of Immanence 
• Lying & Truth in Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Democratic Life
• For Our Present Moment: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
• Hannah Arendt on Race, Identity, & Politics. Or: How to Change Your Mind as a Philosopher

Rich Blint
The New School
Assistant Professor of Literature, director of the program in Race and Ethnicity, and affiliate faculty in Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: American and African American literature and culture; the life and work of  James Baldwin; race, gender, and contemporary visuality; postcolonialism and diaspora; urban life and politics in the context of the global.
Seminar: For Our Present Moment: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time

Layla Brown 
Northeastern University
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana  Studies; 2021 – 2022 Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Center  for Global Cooperation Research, Germany.
The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Racial capitalism; Black liberation; pan-African, socialist, and feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora; cultural anthropology; Africana studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Seminar: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment

Charisse Burden-Stelly 
Carleton College
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political  Science; Visiting Scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago; The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Critical Black studies; political theory; political economy; intellectual history; and historical sociology; twentieth-century Black anticapitalist thought; W.E.B. Du Bois.
Seminar: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment

Federico Campagna
Philosopher & Writer
Overmorrow’s Library Podcast
Areas of Specialization: World-making;  metaphysics; shamanism; mysticism; prophecy & prophetic culture; art; poetry & literature; history; philosophy.
Seminar: Prophetic Conspiration: A Conversation with Federico Campagna

Daniel Denvir
Host of The Dig, a Jacobin magazine podcast
Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Areas of Specialization: contemporary politics, immigration, criminal justice. 
Seminar: Empire of Xenophobia: The Long Political History of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Wall

Amir Eshel
Stanford University
Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies; Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
Areas of Specialization:  contemporary literature and the arts as they touch on philosophy, specifically on memory, history, political thought, and ethics.
Seminar: Lying & Truth in Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Democratic Life

Yomaira C. Figueroa–Vásquez 
Michigan State University
Associate Professor of Global Afro-Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and African American & African Studies.
Co-director and curator of Electric Marronage. 
Areas of Specialization: the textual, historical, and political relations between diasporic Afro-Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Dominican, and Equatoguinean poetics. Seminar: Radical Relating as Decolonial Practice

Eleanor Finley
PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Associate editor at ROAR Magazine ;
Board member of the Institute for Social Ecology.
Areas of Specialization: social ecology; anthropology; practices of direct democracy in the Kurdish Freedom Movement and beyond.
Seminar: Reinventing “Democracy” in the 21st Century: The Rojava Revolution

Cleo Kearns
Dartmouth College, Visiting Scholar
Areas of Specialization: continental philosophy, comparative religion, western literature, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, shamanism and sacrifice. 
Seminars:
• Ritual and Resistance
• Sacrifice, Debt & Grief 
• Sacrifice, Gender & Eros
• Virgil, Sovereignty & Eros
• Shamanism and its Discontents
• Shamanism and its Discontents II: Divination

Brooke Lavelle
Courage of Care Coalition
Areas of Specialization: Buddhist studies; cognitive science; contemplative theory; anti-oppressive pedagogy; social justice; educational equity.
Seminar: Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies for Eco-Justice

Philip Murphy
Buddhist Action Coalition NYC
Animal Rebellion NYC
Areas of Specialization: practitioner of Theravada Buddhism; former director at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, the Insight Mediation Center of the Pioneer Valley (Easthampton, MA), and New York Insight Meditation Center; founding member of the Buddhist Action Coalition NYC; co-founder of the New York City chapter of climate and animal justice organization Animal Rebellion.
Seminar: Total Liberation: The Buddhist Eight-Fold Path, Animal Justice, and Liberatory Praxis

Edward Onaci
Ursinus College
Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: African American history; modern U.S. history; citizenship and nationalism; the New Afrikan Independence Movement; women’s global political struggles; social movements and music in Africa and its diaspora. Seminar: What Does it Mean to be a Citizen? The Past and Present of the New Afrikan Independence Movement

John Paetsch
Temple University
Areas of Specialization: Continental philosophy; Deleuze; Bergson; philosophy of time; poetics; poetry.
Seminars:
• The Noise of Time
• Gilles Deleuze: Larval Subjects, Lost Time 
• “Exhausting All Possibilities:” An Introduction to Deleuze & Guattari’s Political Philosophy
• A Map Through the Ethics: Spinoza’s Geometric Vision of Liberation
• Philosophies of Time: Bergson and Deleuze in the Labyrinth,

Joshua Ramey
Independent Scholar
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary continental philosophy; critical social theory; political economy; political theology; Gilles Deleuze; non-philosophy.
Seminars:
• Money and Metaphysics 
• Why the Debt Strike is Not Impossible 
• Debt Strike Now? 
• Debt as Original Sin
• Production or Enslavement?
• What Do We Owe Each Other? For a Critique of Reciprocity
• Shamanism and its Discontents II: Divination

Scott Ritner
SUNY Potsdam
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Specialization: Political theory; critical theory; Simone Weil; Marxian political thought; political philosophy; political theology. Seminar: Revolutionary Pessimism: On Political Action Without Expectation; Simone Weil: Radical Engagement/Mystical Refusal

Clelia O. Rodríguez
University of Toronto
Seeds of Change
Areas of Specialization: Pedagogies of liberation and resistance; decolonizing academia; politics of research and methodology critical race theories; cultural and literary theories; critical writing and thinking; discourses of power; Spanish as a second Language; literary production of Spanish-speaking writers Seminar: Pedagogies Under Microscopes

Gabriel Rockhill
Villanova University
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: Modern and contemporary philosophy; social and political thought; aesthetics; social theory; cultural history and historiography; literary and film theory; ethics; psychoanalysis.
Seminars: • Contemporary French Philosophy: A Primer • Aesthetics: Toward a Radical History • Why Marx Matters

Ken Scriboni
Reader, Writer, Educator, World Language Teacher.
Comparative Literature/Italian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of Specialization: Italo Calvino; Italian diasporic studies; Meridionalismo; second language acquisition; autonomist Marxism; Black radical thought; anti-work politics; liberatory pedagogy; queer theory; translation studies; Buddhisms. Seminar: Cospiration: Breathing, Poetry, and Making Atmosphere; How to Read a Book: Towards Ludic and Erotic Protocols of Reading.

Natalia Smirnov
Writer, Researcher, Learning Experience Designer.
Areas of Specialization: Prefigurative pedagogy, post-capitalism, play as liberation. Groups: Ludic Liberation Lab. Editor: REFUSE: A Journal of Iconoclasms

Judith Suissa
Professor of Philosophy of Education UCL Institute of Education, London, UK
Areas of Specialization: Political and moral philosophy, with a focus on anarchist theory; questions of social justice; radical and libertarian educational traditions; utopian theory; the role of the state, and the parent-child relationship.
Seminar: Learning in the Crisis: On Rediscovering “the Social” in the Midst of a Pandemic

Anthony Paul Smith
La Salle University
Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology
Areas of Specialization: continental philosophy; non-philosophy; philosophical theology; religious studies; scientific ecology.
Seminar: Alienation and Its Antidotes:  On the Thought of François Laruelle

AK Thompson
Ithaca College
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Walter Benjamin; social movements and social change; social theory; activism; politics; aesthetics; anti-capitalism. Seminars: • The Culture of Revolt • Black Bloc/White Riot • Confronting the Demobilizing Wall of Uncertainty

Kevin Tucker 
Black and Green Press
Wild Resistance Journal
Primal Anarchy Podcast
Areas of Specialization: Primal anarchism; the nature of colonialism and extractivism in expanding civilization; trauma of genocidal and ecocidal campaigns; the impacts of domestication.
Seminar: Narratives With Consequences: Storytelling Animals in a Colonized World

Alexander Wilson
Institute of Research and Innovation, Paris, France
Areas of Specialization: philosophy of science, technology, and aesthetics conversing with cultural studies, environmental humanities, art, and media theory.
Seminar: How We Remained Human: Posthumans, the Technosphere, and the Selfish Meme