Author Bios

Hugh Gusterson is a professor of anthropology at George Mason University and a contributor to the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Josh Hilgart is a political activist and author. He now attends law school in his home state of Michigan, after serving for over a decade as a political communications …

Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the Graduate School of the City University of New York.  She is the author, along with Richard Cloward, of Regulating the …

Cornel West is a professor at Union Theological Seminary. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The recipient of more than twenty honorary degrees, he has written …

Roy Eidelson is a clinical psychologist and the president of Eidelson Consulting, where he studies, writes about and consults on the role of psychological issues in political, organizational and …

Barbara Rose Johnston is an environmental anthropologist at the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, California. Her efforts to document the human environmental impact of nuclear weapons testing …