is a professor in the Dept. of Communications at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her primary research interests are performance studies; communication, social interaction, and culture; interpersonal/intercultural communication; race and whiteness studies; feminist, postcolonial and critical communication theory; critical pedagogy; conflict/mediation; computer mediated communication; identity, interaction, and the media. She is the author and editor of Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/placing Race, and numerous articles.  She holds a PhD from Ohio University.

is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. Her current book manuscript, Engendering Autonomy: Indigenous Women’s Struggles and the State in Mexico, examines the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and indigenous autonomy in Mexico. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory, race/ethnicity, gender and indigenous rights, anthropology of the state and nationalism, immigration, and Latin America.  She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.

is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego.  She specializes in Russian Literature, Modern Yiddish Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and the Literature of Ukraine.  She has published several articles on Russian literature and Jewish-Slavic relations, as well as translations from Russian, Yiddish and Italian. She is the translator and co-editor (with David Weintraub) of an anthology of American Yiddish poetry, Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005).  She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford.

is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Stony Brook University. Her interests include feminist cultural studies, American feminist histories and theory, queer histories and theory, media studies, and post-1945 English and American literature. She recently completed Feminism and Its Ghosts: the Second Wave Women's Movement and the Specter of the Feminist-as-Lesbian in which she analyzes how media and feminist representations of feminism during the Second Wave Movement produced some of the cultural forms through which it has since become part of a collective cultural memory. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University.

is Professor of Syntax at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests are in Theoretical Syntax and the Syntax/Semantics interface, with particular reference to English, the other Germanic languages and Japanese. Recent and current research topics include reconstruction phenomena, equatives and other copular constructions, the syntax and semantics of (especially) nominal conjunction, and syntactic attrition in the native language of advanced learners of a second language. She is co-Editor in Chief of The Journal of Linguistics. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). He interests include philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many books and articles, including Language Turned on Itself (2007), Insensitive Semantics (2004) (both with Herman Cappelen), The Compositionality Papers (2002) (co-authored with Jerry Fodor), and What Every Student Should Know (2002) (co-authored with Sarah-Jane Leslie).   He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. 

is Assistant Professor of Fim Theory at Stanford University. He has written on cinema and nationalism, psychoanalytic film theory, and experimental cinema, and he co-edited Filosofska igracka (A Philosophical Toy), a selection of Annette Michelson's writings on film and modernist art. His book Disintegration in Frames, about aesthetics and politics in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, was published in 2007. His teaching brings together his commitment to film as an art form with the study of cinema as a social and cultural phenomenon. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU.

is a Distinguished Professor in the Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the City University of New York, with a joint appointment in the Program in Linguistics. Her research is in the neurolinguistics of bilingualism, cross-language study of aphasia, the language changes of healthy aging and dementia, the neuropsychology of talent, and dyslexia. She is the author of The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (with Martin Albert, 1978), Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity, and Loss (with Kenneth Hyltenstam, 1989), and Language and the Brain (with Kris Gjerlow, 1999). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan.

is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His research interests concern postcommunist politics in Eastern Europe (particularly Poland), comparative explorations of Labor and democracy in Europe and America - the changing relationship between the United States and the European Union, Globalization protests, and chances for a new international order. He was awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize in 2006 for The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin.