About the Contributors

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Joshua J. Branciforte is an independent scholar. He has previously coedited the “Queer Bonds” special issue of GLQ (17:2–3), and his work has also appeared in Modern Language Quarterly. He is currently working on the edited volume On the Subject of Ethnonationalism, forthcoming with Fordham University Press.Ahmad Greene-Hayes is an assistant professor of African American studies and religious studies at Northwestern University. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Gods of the Flesh: Black Atlantic Religion-Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,” which is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press in the Class 200: New Studies in Religion series. His work has also appeared in The Black Scholar, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and The Journal of African American History.Eben Kirksey is associate professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Kirksey is best known for his work in multispecies ethnography—a field that mixes ethnographic, historical, ethological, and genetic methods to study spaces where humans and other species meet. Duke University Press published his first two books—Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012) and Emergent Ecologies (2015)—as well as The Multispecies Salon (2014), a curated collection of artwork and essays. His latest book, The Mutant Project (2020), embeds queer and crip theory within a readable tale about some of the world's first genetically modified people.Holly Randell-Moon is a senior lecturer in the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia. She has published on infrastructure, biopower, and settler colonialism in the journals Celebrity Studies and Westminster Papers in Culture and Communication and the edited book Colonialism, Tourism and Place: Global Transformations in Tourist Destinations (2020). Along with Ryan Tippet, she is coeditor of Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality (2016). She is also coeditor of the journal Somatechnics.Danielle M. Roper is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She is currently completing her book manuscript, tentatively titled “Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Racial Formation in the Americas.” Roper is the curator of “Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive.” Her work on blackface performance and feminist activism in Latin America and the Caribbean has also appeared in Latin American Research Review and Small Axe.