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Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth Allen is associate professor of English, University of California, Irvine. Allen is working on a book called Uncertain Refuge: Ideas of Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England. …
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Kayla DeVault

Kayla DeVault is an Anishinaabe and enrolled Shawnee, living on the Navajo reservation. She currently works for the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation as a project civil engineer while studying …
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Ryan Chikaraishi

Ryan Chikaraishi lives and works at the New York Public Library, and Ryan received a masters degree in history from City College. Some of Ryan's interests include mass incarceration, …
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Alice Adder

Alice Adder's main areas of interest are the privatization of security, the military-industrial complex, expansion of the surveillance state and the militarization of police departments. Follow Alice on Twitter.
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Holly Devon

Holly Devon is a freelance writer living in New Orleans, where she is a master's student at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.  She is a regular contributor …
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Cedar Wilkie Gillette

Cedar Wilkie Gillette is a third-year law student at Vermont Law School studying environmental and human rights law. Gillette is also a tribal member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and …
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Ralph Young

Ralph Young is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea (NYU Press, 2015).
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Christopher F. Petrella

Christopher Petrella is a lecturer in American cultural studies at Bates College. His work explores the intersections of race, state and criminalization. He completed a Ph.D. in African diaspora …