Author Bios

Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is the John D. MacArthur University Professor with appointments in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies …

Paul Thomas is a professor at Furman University.

Steve Striffler is the Doris Zemurray Stone chair of Latin American studies and professor of anthropology and geography at the University of New Orleans.

Michael Busch, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor, teaches international relations at the City College of New York and serves as research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for …

Ahmed Afzaal, Ph.D., holds his doctorate in Religion and Society from Drew University, and is an assistant professor of Comparative Religion at Concordia College. Dr. Afzaal was born in Pakistan, where …