Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNeda Atanasoski is associate professor of feminist studies and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Currently, she is completing a book coauthored with Kalindi Vora tentatively titled “Surrogate Humanity: Race, Technology, Revolution.”Moya Bailey’s work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in digital humanities. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She is assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University.Ellen Driscoll makes sculpture, drawings, and public installations. Her work illuminates hidden narratives in both sociopolitical histories and in material culture and redirects the spectator’s gaze in serendipitous, unexpected ways. She instigates slight shifts of perception that will provoke a wobble in the axis of certainty, creating openings for perceptual realignment. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, a 2014 Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2015 Siena Arts Institute Fellowship. Her work is included in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is program director of studio arts and visiting professor of sculpture at Bard College.Dijana Jelača is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and coeditor, with Kristin Lené Hole and Elizabeth Ann Kaplan, of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (New York: Routledge, 2017). Jelača’s scholarly interests include feminist film and media studies, transnational cinema, and South Slavic film cultures. She has published essays on a range of topics including cinema and childhood trauma, cultural inflections of social class in postsocialism, and celebrity humanitarianism. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, Jump Cut, and elsewhere. She currently teaches in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.Omotayo Jolaosho ([email protected]) is assistant professor of Africana studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at University of South Florida. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Humanities at the University of California, Merced, and received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Rutgers University. She is currently writing an ethnography on the role of embodied performance within activist collectives opposing neoliberal state economic policies in postapartheid South Africa. She is a coeditor, with Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, and Anne Serafin, of the transnational anthology African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010).Sohini Kar is assistant professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. An economic anthropologist, she examines the intersection of global finance and development and explores the everyday experiences of financialization by the urban poor in India. She has published widely on commercial microfinance in India, including her 2017 article “Relative Indemnity: Risk, Insurance, and Kinship in Indian Microfinance,” in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23, no. 2 (2017): 302–19.Megan Lowthers is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Megan received her PhD in anthropology, migration, and ethnic relations from the University of Western Ontario, where she completed her dissertation, “Sexual-Economic Entanglement: A Feminist Ethnography of Migrant Sex Work Spaces in Kenya.” Her research examines female sex workers’ various migration trajectories, gender relations, and types of sexual commerce. Megan’s current research focuses on experiences of displaced and refugee sex workers and gendered regimes of securitization in Kenya.Maria Martinez holds a PhD from the University of the Basque Country. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include feminist movements, collective identity, agency, and vulnerability. She is the coeditor, with Ignacio Irazuzta, of De la identidad a la vulnerabilidad: Alteridad e integración en el País Vasco contemporáneo [From identity to vulnerability: Alterity and integration in contemporary Basque Country] (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2014), and the coauthor, with David Casado-Neira, of “Fragmented Victims: Women Victims of Gender-Based Violence in the Face of Expert Discourses and Practices in Spain,” Women’s Studies International Forum, no. 59 (2016): 39–47.Sharon R. Mazzarella (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is professor of communication studies at James Madison University. She is editor/coeditor of seven academic anthologies, including The Mediated Youth Reader (New York: Peter Lang, 2016). In addition, she is editor of the book series “Mediated Youth” (Peter Lang)—a series dedicated to publishing trailblazing academic books on cultural studies of youth, primarily girls. Her research has been published in a range of academic journals, and she is currently finishing a book examining the news media’s role in perpetuating a moral panic about girls growing up too fast.Nicola Moffat earned her PhD from the School of English, University College Cork, Ireland, in October 2015. Born and raised in South Africa, Nicola has lived in Cork for over eighteen years. Her research interests include monstrosity studies, feminist theory, and contemporary literature. Recent and forthcoming publications include a collection on a 2005 installation by the Cork-based collective half/angel, coedited with Jools Gilson, “Textiles, Community, and Controversy: The Knitting Map” (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming), and “Monstrous Promises: Performative Acts and Corporeality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” Somatechnics 7, no. 2 (2017).Rachel Elin Nolan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Connecticut; she received her undergraduate and master’s degree training in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She also holds a graduate certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is currently working on a study of women’s professional labor in the Progressive Era United States, focusing in particular on the intersection between reproductive and productive discourses. Her scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Journal of American Studies, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Caribbean Quarterly, and LEAR: Literature in the Early American Republic.Hamsa Rajan received her PhD from the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Her research explores family abuse on the northeastern Tibetan plateau, where she lived for many years. She is fluent in Tibetan and Chinese and has previously worked in the nonprofit sector in China as a translator, trainer, and public health officer. She has also worked on gender awareness trainings and as a gender-based violence consultant in Switzerland, the Philippines, and the United States.Sara Salem ([email protected]) is a research and teaching fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include critical feminist political economy, Marxist theory, and postcolonial theory in the Middle East and Africa. Her research focuses on the international political economy of Egypt and the Middle East, as well as the Egyptian feminist movement through the lens of critical feminist political economy. She is the author of “Intersectionality and Its Discontents: Intersectionality as Traveling Theory,” prepublished online in the European Journal of Women’s Studies (2016), and the coauthor, with Karim Malak, of “Reorientalizing the Middle East: The Power Agenda Setting Post-Arab Uprisings,” Middle East—Topics and Arguments 4 (2015): 93–109.Suzanna Danuta Walters is editor in chief of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Her work centers on questions of gender, sexuality, family, and popular culture. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality (New York: New York University Press, 2014), explores how notions of tolerance limit the possibilities for real liberation and deep social belonging. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on feminist theory, queer theory and LGBT studies, and popular culture. In 2004, Walters founded the first PhD program in gender studies at Indiana University, where she was professor of gender studies and held positions in sociology and communication and culture. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 43, Number 2Winter 2018 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/693774 © 2017 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.