Anna Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She teaches classes on Islamic intellectual history and the history, literature and culture of the Islamic world.

Zeynep Çelik Alexander is Assistant Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She is an architectural historian whose work focuses on the history and theory of modern architecture since the Enlightenment.

Alworth’s research interests include Twentieth-century American literature and culture, visual art, and social theory.

Davarian L. Baldwin is a historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America. His work largely examines the landscape of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience.

Weihong Bao, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2006. Her teaching and research interests cover late nineteenth century visual and performance culture and Chinese language cinema.