Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of the History Department, Affiliated Faculty of African American Studies, American Studies, and Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. Their specializations include African American Studies, African Diaspora, Sub-Saharan Africa, Journalism History, Black Digital Humanities, and Learning Design & Technology.
Mary Rizzo is and Associate Professor and Associate Director of Public and Digital Humanities Initiative, as well as Faculty of Global Urban Studies/Urban Systems. Their specializations include US cultural history, urban studies, public humanities and digital humanities.
Debra Vidali is an Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Director of Undergrad Research at Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Their research specializations include experimental ethnography, ethnographic theater-making, and democracy & Civic engagement. Kwame Phillips is an Associate Professor of the Department of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University. Their research specializations include sensory media production, ethnographic documentary and soundscapes.
Alexandra Murphy and DeAnna Smith are from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor’s Department of Sociology. Dr. Murphy is an Assistant Professor with research interests include poverty, suburban poverty, transportation insecurity, and inequality. DeAnna Smith is a PhD candidate with research interests in punishment, cultural sociology, urban sociology, crime/law, and gender. Colin Jerolmack is from New York University’s Department of Sociology. Dr. Jerolmack is an associate professor with research interests in ethnography, urban communities, and environmental sociology.
Andrew Flinn is associated with the Department of Information Studies from the University College of London. Some of Dr. Flinn’s interests include archives and memories, democratizing archival practices, and social justice. Mary Stevens is from the Department of Information Studies at the University College London. Elizabeth Shepherd is from the Department of Information Studies at the University College London. Dr. Shepherd is a Professor of Archives and Records Management. Dr. Sphepherd’s research interests include women archival activists in England, record management, and information policy compliance.
David Zeitlyn is a Professor from the University of Oxford’s School of anthropology and museum ethnography as well as the institute of social and cultural anthropology. They have worked in Mambila in Cameroon since 1985. Topics of interest include religion, sociolinguistics, and political systems.
Lisa Rofel is a professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Rofel has consistently brought feminist, postcolonial and Marxist poststructuralist approaches to bear on questions of modernity, postsocialism, capitalism, desire, queer identities, and transnational encounters. She has written extensively about China.
Lieba Faier is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan (University of California Press, 2009) is an ethnography of cultural encounters among Filipina migrants and their Japanese families and communities in rural Nagano.
Lambert Heller: He is an open research infrastructures specialist and a librarian (LIS master’s degree from Humboldt University, Berlin). He started TIB’s Open Science Lab in 2013. His work centers on research infrastructures and cultural heritage institutions, and how they change and grow in a networked, globalized world. His main focus is on responsible research data governance and building digital capability. He started TIB’s Open Science Lab in 2013.
Ronald The: He is a designer, information architect, and concept developer. He holds a Graphic Design Diploma from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and a Master of Arts in Communication, Planning, and Design from the University of Design, Schqabisch Gmund. He founded the user experience consultancy company infotectures and specializes in user interfact design, web-design/mobile design, and presentations.
Sonke Bartling: He is a researcher in medical imaging sciences at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and a board certified radiologist at the University Medical Center in Mannheim.
James Bielo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University. His ethnographic work focuses on the contemporary United States, specializing in Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnographic Methods, Anthropological Theory and the Anthropology of Global Christianity.
Avery Gordon is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a visiting faculty fellow at the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She obtained her Ph.D. at Boston College. Her work focuses on radical thought in action over the last few years, and she has written on captivity, war and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. She is also a Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives, which records the living history of the arrival and existence of a group of runaways, secessionists and in-differents who form autonomous zones and settlements, and have receded from living as obedient (and also resistant or resisting) subjects. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, 2nd ed. (Minnesota, 2008), Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knolwedge, Power and People (Paradigm Publishers 2004), and the co-editor of Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Body Politics (Westview, 1994). Recent scholarly publications have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections. Since 1997, Gordon has co-hosted a weekly public affairs radio program, "No Alibis," on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara.