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Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2011), which won five prizes.

Joshua Javier Guzmán is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA, the author of Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style, and a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Mishuana Goeman, daughter of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Hawk Clan, is currently a professor and chair of the department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her latest monograph is Settler Aesthetics: The Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). She is the current president of the American Studies Association.

Bayley Marquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.

Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English and Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024).

Mark Rifkin is Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of eight books, including The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance. His work has won a number of national awards, including the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies and the Best Special Issue prize from the Councils of Editors of Learned Journals, and he has served as president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins is the chair of the department of global Gender and sexuality studies at the University at Buffalo. She’s the managing editor of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century.