Ann E. Kingsolver
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States ann.kingsolver@uky.eduUniversity of KentuckyUnited StatesLexington, Kentucky, United StatesUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States ann.kingsolver@uky.edu
Annapurna Devi Pandey
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States adpandey@ucsc.eduUniversity of CaliforniaUnited StatesSanta Cruz, California, United StatesUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States adpandey@ucsc.edu
Gustavo Onto
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil gustavo.onto@gmail.comFederal University of Rio de JaneiroBrazilRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilFederal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil gustavo.onto@gmail.com
Chris C. Opesen
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda chrisopesen@chuss.mak.ac.ug / chris.c.opesen@gmail.comMakerere UniversityUgandaKampala, UgandaMakerere University, Kampala, Uganda chrisopesen@chuss.mak.ac.ug / chris.c.opesen@gmail.com
Hannah Appel
University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States happel@ucla.eduUniversity of CaliforniaUnited StatesLos Angeles, California, United StatesUniversity of California, Los Angeles, California, United States happel@ucla.edu
Ann E. Kingsolver is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her ethnographic research for over 30 years has been on local interpretations and contestations of global capitalist logics and marginalizing practices as they intersect with identities and livelihoods. She has authored, edited or co-edited seven books, most recently Global Mountain Regions: Conversations Toward the Future (2018) with Sasikumar Balasundaram.
Annapurna Devi Pandey holds a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Post-doctorate in Social Anthropology from Cambridge, UK. Currently, she teaches Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests are in women in India and the Indian diaspora, their migration and diaspora studies, South Asian religion, and Indian immigrant women’s identity-making in the diaspora. Most recently, her research focuses on the struggles and challenges of H1-B and H-4 visa holders from India in the context of U.S. policies.
Gustavo Onto holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research and coordinator of the research center Documenta - Laboratory of Anthropology of the State, Regulation, and Public Policy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Among his publications are the articles “Competition on paper: artifacts of visualization in antitrust policy” and “Corporate personhood and the competitive relation in antitrust.”
Chris Opesen is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University (2006-), from which he received his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2019. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles on children, FGM, HIV/AIDS, and other topics. His research interests include poverty, development and social policy analysis, sexual and reproductive health, culture, rituals and rites of passage, and migration and borderland studies. Since 2019, he has served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Makerere-Exeter-Edinburgh Universities Collaboration Projects on Social Science Gene Drive Research in Uganda.
Hannah Appel holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, and is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology, Global Studies, and International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in which she also serves as the Associate Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. A scholar of transnational capitalism, Dr. Appel’s recent sole-authored and co-authored books include The Licit Life of Capitalism: U.S. Oil in Equatorial Guinea (2019) and Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: the Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020).