James B. Jacobs is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University. His doctoral dissertation, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), is considered a classic in penology and is still assigned in classrooms around the country.
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Vlasta Jalusic is a senior research fellow at the Peace Institute (Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies), Ljubljana, Slovenia, and an associate professor of political theory and gender studies at Ljubljana University. Her recent publications include "Post-totalitarian Elements and Eichmann's Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings" (in Stone and King, eds., 2007). She is the editor and translator into Slovene of Arendt's The Human Condition (1996) and Between Past and Future (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Yu Jianrong, of the Institute for Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has distinguished himself with the publication of articles on farmers’ resistance against tax gathering, and on peasants’ organisation in Hunan, a central province of China. The originality of the information he presents, based on long and thorough investigations, has made him famous in Chinese sociological circles. Yu has access to extensive documentation on peasants and workers’ resistance.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology and global studies and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent books include Terror in the Mind of God, Global Rebellion, Religion in Global Civil Society, and A Handbook of Global Religion.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. His books include Patriotism and Other Mistakes (2006) and The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, winner of the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Ira Katznelson has been Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University since 1994. His books include Political Science: The State of Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 2004); Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development (co-authored with Martin Shefter, Princeton University Press, 2002); Schooling for All: Race, Class, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (co-authored with Margaret Weir; Basic Books, 1985); City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (University of Chicago, 1981). He is the winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Prize and Columbia's Lionel Trilling Award. He is completing a book on the New Deal, the South, and the shaping of postwar liberalism in the United States.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Hyojoung Kim is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Korean American and Korean Studies, California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests include Social Movements and Collective Action, Political Sociology, and Race and Ethnicity. He is co-winner of the First Place Winner of the 2004 Best Article Competition Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of American Sociological Association.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Kenneth Kipnis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has written extensively on ethics in health care, including disaster medicine, the treatment of low-birthweight infants, breaching confidentiality, the surgical “normalization” of infants with ambiguous genitalia, and the foundations of professional ethics.
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Jerome Kohn is Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at The New School for Social Research. He is the editor of a series of volumes of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected works, and has written numerous essays on various aspects of her thought.
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Julian Le Grand currently holds the following titles: Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics; Chair of the London School of Economics Health and Social Care; Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine; Founding Academician of the Academy of learned Societies for the Social Sciences and a Senior Associate of the King Fund. He is the author, co-author or editor of twelve books and over ninety articles and book chapters on health and social policy. His books include Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford University Press, 2003); Quasi-Markets and Social Policy (co-author with Will Bartlett, Palgrave, 1993); Equity and Choice: An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy (Routledge, 1992); and The Strategy of Equality (Unwin Hyman, 1982).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Claus Leggewie is Director of the Center for Media and Interactivity at Giessen University, Germany, where he teaches political science. His publications include Ein Ort, an den man gerne geht. Das Holocaust-Mahnmal und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik nach 1989 [A place one wants to go: The Holocaust memorial and German politics of history after 1989] (with Meyer, 2005).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Martine Leibovici is a member of the faculty at the Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot /Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques. Her publications include Hannah Arendt et la tradition juive : le judaïsme à l'épreuve de la sécularisation (2003) and Hannah Arendt, une Juive : expérience, politique et histoire (1998).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Isaac Levi is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught from 1970 until 2003. He is author of eight books, the most recent of which is Mild Contractions (2004) and many articles on the rational conduct of scientific and value inquiry.
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John
Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr.
Centennial Chair in Law at the University
of Texas Law School and Professor of
Government at the University of Texas
at Austin. His most recent book is Our
Undemocratic Constitution: Where the
Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the
People Can Correct It) (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Having made her mark on the business sector in the 1980s, Christine Loh was a Legislative Councilor between 1992 and 2000, representing a wide variety of causes and contributing significantly to the advancement of issues such as gender equality and environmental protection. In 2000, Dr Loh founded the independent think tank, Civic Exchange. As its Chief Executive, she continues to dedicate herself to promoting civic education and public policy studies in Hong Kong.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Ursula Ludz, a sociologist in Munich, is the editor of several German works by Hannah Arendt and a translator. Her latest book publication is the two-volume Hannah Arendt: Denktagebuch (with Nordmann, 2002), and her most recent translation (2005) is Hannah Arendt: Über das Böse (Arendt’s 1965 lecture course on moral philosophy).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Jeff McMahan is Professor of
Philosophy at Rutgers University and
a Visiting Research Collaborator at the
Center for Human Values, Princeton.
He is the author of The Ethics of Killing:
Problems at the Margins of Life (2002).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Christoph Menke is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center of Human Rights at the University of Potsdam. His English books include The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida (1998) and Reflections of Equality (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Jonathan Moore served as a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. between l989 and 1992 and as U.S. Coordinator for Refugees between 1986 and 1989. He is an Associate at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard, and works for the U.N. and other international agencies on post-conflict reconstruction.
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Debbie A. Mukamal is Director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She co-authored After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry, a Report on State Legal Barriers Facing People with Criminal Records (with Samuels, 2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Ingeborg Nordmann is Professor (Studienleiterin) of German Literature, Philosophy, and Political Sciences at the Evangelische Stadtakademie Frankfurt. Her publications include Hannah Arendt: Denktagebuch 1950-1973 (with Ludz, 2002) and “Hannah Arendt: Wege ins politische Denken” (in Korta, 2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Jeffrey K. Olick is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia. His books include States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke 2003); In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of Germany Defeat, 1943-1949 (Chicago 2005); and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Pierre Pachet, former Professor of Modern Literature at the University Paris-7, has contributed to the translation in French of selected essays of Hannah Arendt (“Penser l’événement,” Belin, 1989) and of W. H. Auden (“Essais critiques,” Belin, 2000).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Anna L. Peterson is Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. Her publications include the books Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador¹s Civil War; Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World; and Residence on Earth: Utopian Communities in the Americas, and two collaborative volumes: Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas and Religions of Latin America: Histories and Documents in Context.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Brandt G. Peterson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. He writes and teaches on political violence, the state, race, and nationalism in Latin America. He is currently writing a book about nationalism and identity politics in El Salvador.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Ross Poole is the author of Morality and Modernity (1991) and Nation and Identity (1999). He is currently working on a book entitled Past Justice. He was for many years Head of the Philosophy Department of Macquarie University, and remains an Adjunct Professor there. He now teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Jerrold M. Post is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology, and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at the George Washington University. His publications include The Psychological Evaluation of Political Leaders (2003) and Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior (2004).
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
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