SARAY AYALA‐LÓPEZ is an assistant professor of philosophy at California State University, Sacramento. They have previously worked at San Francisco State University, Carlos III University of Madrid, and Autonomous University of Barcelona. Two extreme emotions brought them to philosophy: a passion for science and understanding, and a deep disappointment with social injustice. Their current research applies conceptual tools from the philosophy of science (especially cognitive science), language, and mind, to a variety of questions in social and feminist philosophy, for example, structural explanations of social injustice, the dynamics of conversations, the use of sex categories, the metaphysics and epistemology of sexual orientation. They publish as both Saray Ayala and Saray Ayala‐López. (ayala@csus.edu)
ANDREAS BLANK is Lise‐Meitner Research Fellow at the University of Klagenfurt. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University, as well as a visiting associate professor at the University of Hamburg and Bard College Berlin. He is the author of Der logische Aufbau von Leibniz’ Metaphysik (2001), Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics, 1666–1686 (2005), Biomedical Ontology and the Metaphysics of Composite Substances, 1540–1660 (2010), and Ontological Dependence and the Metaphysics of Individual Substances, 1540–1716 (2015), as well as of some sixty articles, mostly on early modern metaphysics and ethics. (andreas.blank@aau.at)
AZILLE COETZEE is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She recently completed a PhD (at the Vrije University of Amsterdam and Stellenbosch University) in which she explored African feminist thought as decolonizing force, in dialogue with European feminist philosophy. Currently she is working on issues of citizenship, migration and decolonization in South Africa, as studied through a feminist philosophical lens. (azille.coetzee@gmail.com)
VERENA ERLENBUSCH is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. She specializes in political philosophy and contemporary European philosophy. She is the author of numerous articles on terrorism and political violence as well as on the work of Michel Foucault. Her book, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Terror, Empire (Columbia University Press, 2018), examines the historical formation of present practices and discourses of terrorism. Her current project seeks to articulate a critical concept of terrorism that may serve as a useful tool for thinking otherwise about the conceptual, political, and ethical challenges of terrorism. (vrlnbsch@memphis.edu)
ANNEMIE HALSEMA is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research interests are in the body and identity, and her areas of interest feminist philosophy, French phenomenology, and hermeneutics. She is the author of Luce Irigaray and Horizontal Transcendence (SWP, 2010), and co‐editor of Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy (with Fernanda Henriques, Lexington, 2016). (j.m.halsema@vu.nl)
RANJOO SEODU HERR is an associate professor of philosophy at Bentley University, Waltham, Mass. She has published widely on topics of feminist, political, social, and comparative philosophy in peer‐reviewed journals such as Hypatia, Meridians, Political Theory, Social Theory and Practice, and Philosophy East & West. Herr's current research interests are in feminist philosophy, third‐world/transnational feminisms, theories of democracy, nationalism, collective self‐determination, human rights, multiculturalism, and global governance. (rherr@bentley.edu)
JOHANNA OKSALA is an associate professor of environmental philosophy at Pratt Institute, New York. She writes on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, Foucault, and phenomenology. She has published five monographs and over fifty refereed journal articles and book chapters in her areas of expertise. Her books include: Foucault on Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2005), How to Read Foucault (Granta, 2007), Foucault, Politics, and Violence (Northwestern University Press, 2012), Political Philosophy: All That Matters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2013), and Feminist Experiences (Northwestern University Press, 2016). (joksala@pratt.edu)
LOUISE RICHARDSON‐SELF is a lecturer in philosophy and gender studies at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Justifying Same‐Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation (2015). Her research interests include hate speech, social imaginaries, social epistemology, and oppression. (Louise.RichardsonSelf@utas.edu.au)
KRIS SEALEY is an associate professor of philosophy at Fairfield University. She received both her MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Memphis. Dr. Sealey's published articles can be found in academic journals such as Critical Philosophy of Race, Hypatia: A Journal for Feminist Philosophy, Levinas Studies, Research in Phenomenology, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, and Continental Philosophy Review. Her book, Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence, was published in December 2013 by SUNY Press. Her current book project is on the relationship among community formations, creolization, and the nation. (ksealey@fairfield.edu)
FANNY SÖDERBÄCK is an assistant professor of philosophy at DePaul University. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research, and taught philosophy for several years at Siena College. Fanny has edited Feminist Readings of Antigone (SUNY Press, 2010) and is a co‐editor of the volume Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is also the editor of a special issue of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism on the topic of birth. She is the co‐director of the Kristeva Circle. (f.soderback@depaul.edu)
ELİF YAVNIK is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Penn State University. She is completing her dissertation on the significance of Nietzsche's employment of biological language for his ethics. Her research interests are ethics, Nietzsche, twentieth‐century continental philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Her article on Heidegger's Nietzsche lectures, “Heidegger'in Dersleri Nietzsche'nin Biyoloji Kavrayışını Nasıl Gözardı Etti?,” was published in Felsefi Düşün. (e.yavnik@gmail.com)
ROBIN ZHENG is an assistant professor of philosophy at Yale‐NUS College. Her research focuses on issues of moral responsibility and structural injustice, along with other topics in ethics, moral psychology, feminist and social philosophy, and philosophy of race. Recent publications include “Why Yellow Fever Isn't Flattering: A Case against Racial Fetish” in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and “Attributability, Accountability, and Implicit Bias” in Implicit Bias and Philosophy, volume 2 (edited by Jennifer Saul and Michael Brownstein). She recently served on the APA Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion and the APA Task Force on a Good Practices Guide. (robin.zheng@yale-nus.edu.sg)