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Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social Professor of African American Studies and History working in central PA. Author of Never-Ending War on Terror (UC Press); Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro Arab Political Imaginary (UNC Press); etc.
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The Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center @palestinecenter.bsky.social Nonprofit in Washington, D.C. educating the U.S. public & policymakers on Palestine and supporting Palestinian liberation through education, culture, arts, & advocacy. https://thejerusalemfund.org/
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/
Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Birmingham, UK.
Interested in the connections between geopolitics and urban everyday life.
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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
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Alke Jenss @alkejenss.bsky.social states, infrastructures, violence | sociology & urban & conflict studies | Cluster Contested Governance @ABI freiburg | Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia | author: Selective Security | PI @postcolh22 | mom | find me staring at clouds
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
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