Ethan Tupelo is Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Social Thought at Hampshire College. Tupelo draws connections between local waste practices and transnational environmental destruction, challenging dominant narratives about technological progress and sustainability.

Osman Balkan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. Balkan studies how migratory experiences shape racialized identities and is broadly interested in how societies grapple with diversity and difference.

Yuna Blajer de la Garza is a political theorist studying inequalities and oppression in democratic societies by focusing on the interactions between formal political institutions, the ideals that undergird them, and everyday practices and norms.

Kevin Funk is an interdisciplinary political economist and Latin Americanist whose research sheds light on how the region’s cultural geographies and built spaces are both shaped by, and give shape to, various kinds of global flows.