Destin Jenkins is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His research interests include urban history, twentieth-century African American history, and crime and punishment. He is the author of The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
Ryan Cecil Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research engages questions of sovereignty and extractive resource development in the colonial and postcolonial Americas. He is at work on his first book manuscript, a historical ethnography of the Caribbean petrostate of Trinidad and Tobago.
Manu Karuka is an assistant professor of American studies at Barnard College. He is the author of Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). He is also co-editor of Futures Held Hostage: Confronting US Hybrid Wars and Sanction in Venezuela (Pluto Press, 2020) and co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (New York University Press, 2013).
Mishal Khan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin, after completing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her work examines slavery and abolition in South Asia and the wider British Empire, linking these histories to the emergence of global legal labor regimes during the twentieth century.
Justin Leroy is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the intellectual history of the U.S. and Atlantic world, and the problem of slavery and empire in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Lowest Freedom: Slave Emancipation, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
Allan E. S. Lumba is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech. His work explores the intersections between race, sovereignty, and capitalism in the U.S. Pacific empire and the Philippine colony. He is the author of Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines (forthcoming).
K-Sue Park is an associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her work examines the creation of the American real estate system through the history of colonization. Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The University of Chicago Law Review, The History of the Present, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Inquiry, and the New York Times.
Pedro Regalado is a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He researches the history of race, Latinx immigration, and capitalism in American cities. His forthcoming book examines the history of twentieth century New York through the lens of Latinx workers in the city’s rapidly evolving industries, recuperating Latinx residents as active agents in the remaking of the city’s economy and landscape.
Shauna J. Sweeney is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and history at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on early modern political economy, transnational feminisms, and slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world. She is the author of A Free Enterprise: Market Women, Insurgent Economies and the Making of Caribbean Freedom (forthcoming).