Stephen Eric Bronner
Is Professor (II) of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University and an editor of Logos. His most recent book, Imagining the Possible, has just been released from Rowman and Littlefield. 
 

Jim Cohn 
Born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1953, Jim Cohn is the author of four collections of poetry, including The Dance Of Yellow Lightning Over The Ridge (1998), and a collection of essays on American sign language poetics, Sign Mind (1999). He has released five recordings of his work, most recently Emergency Juke Joint (2002). Cohn has an M.S. Ed. degree in English and Deaf Education, and coordinated the first, historic National Deaf Poetry Conference in 1987. He is also founder of the wide-ranging poetry website, Museum of American Poetics (MAP), at www.poetspath.com.
 

Irene Gendzier
Irene Gendzier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University and writes on subjects of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and problems of development. Her works include: Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (Columbia University Press, 1998; pbk. Westview Press, 1999); Development Against Democracy (Tyrone Press, 1995; previously: Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World (Westview, 1985); Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study, Pantheon (1973; revised ed. Evergreen, 1985); "Play it Again Sam: The Practice and Apology of Development," in Christopher Simpson, ed., Universities and Empire (New Press, 1998); "Culture and Development: Veiled Apologetic or an Effort at Social Reconstruction of Economic and Political Change," in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, (summer 1989, 13, 2).


Robert Haller
is a photographer whose work has concentrated on nudes and portraits of experimental filmmakers. He was the editor of The Brakhage Scrapbook and The Flow of Energy by Jim Davis. He has organized major film programs including: Galaxy: Avant-Garde Film-Makers Look Across Space and Time, Fritz Lang 2000, and Omer Kavur: Master of Cinematic Time. He is currently the Director of Collections and Special Projects at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. He lives in Staten Island with his wife, filmmaker Amy Greenfield.
 

Wadood Hamad
was born and educated in Iraq and educated in Britain, the U.S. and Canada, he is a scientist, writer and activist and holds a Ph. D. in Experimental Mechanics and Materials Science from McGill University. He has published in the field of physics or materials and also written on social change, freedom and determination, and the socio-economic analysis of Iraqi society. He was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics (U. K.).
 

Dick Howard
is professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and is the author of The Marxian Legacy and From Marx to Kant. His most recent book is The Specter of Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2002).
 

James Jennings
is the founder and Director of Conscience International (www.conscienceinternational.org) and has been a commentator and analyst of Middle East politics for over two decades. 
 

Douglas Kellner
is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co authored with Michael Ryan, Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with Steven Best), Television and the Crisis of Democracy, The Persian Gulf TV War, Media Culture, and The Postmodern Turn (with Steven Best). He has just published a book on the 2000 presidential Election, Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Theft of an Election, and The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium (co-authored by Steven Best).
 

Christine Kelly
Christine Kelly earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1996. Her book Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue: New Social Movements in America has been published by Rowman & Littlefield. Most recently she has published articles on the student anti-sweatshop movement in the U.S. and is currently working on a new book titled "Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the American University" also with Rowman & Littlefield. Prof. Kelly is the 2003 Program Chair for the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.
 

Tim Luke
teaches in the Department of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. His research deals with contemporary social theory, the politics of informational society, and critical cultural analysis.
 

Judith Marcus
teaches Sociology at SUNY Potsdam and is the author of Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann : A Study in the Sociology of Literature.
 

Robin Melville
is a professor of Politics and Government at Ripon College.
 

Eduardo Mendieta
teaches in the department of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. His primary areas of research are global ethics, discourse ethics, critical theory (in particular Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas), theories of modernity, postmodernity, postcolonialism, and Latin American philosophy. In addition to writing a book on Karl-Otto Apel, he edited two volumes of Apel's writings. He has also translated and edited the work of Enrique Dussel and Jürgen Habermas. He is at work on two manuscripts; one on globalization and critical theory, and another on utopia. He is also the senior editor of the forthcoming Routledge History of Latin American Philosophy.

Adrienne Rich
is a poet, essayist, and activist. Her most recent books are Fox (poems) and Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. A new edition of her What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics will be published in 2003 (all W. W. Norton).
 

Ilja Richter
was born in 1952 in Berlin. The son of parents persecuted by the Nazi regime, a child actor who appeared in all the major theaters of West Berlin, he became the youngest TV host in Germany. Mr. Richter has recently had roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in Berlin, Chicago in Munich, as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady on tour, and as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice in Frankfurt. Often appearing with his sister, Janina Richter, he has written satires and sketches as well as an autobiography titled My Story. He is currently the star of a cabaret tribute that he also wrote for the poet, singer, songwriter, and performer "Happy Birthday Georg Kreisler!"

Manfred Steger
is Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. His academic fields of expertise include theories and ideologies of globalization, comparative political and social theory, theories of nonviolence, and international politics. His most recent publications include Globalization (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2003), Globalism: The New Market Ideology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and Gandhi's Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
 

Keith Watenpaugh
is Assistant Professor of History at Lemoyne College. His research examines issues of colonialism, class and modernity in the urban history of the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.