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Alana Lentin | Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a Jewish woman who is a settler on Gadigal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Prior to joining the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sussex University (2006-2012). She teaches a Masters course, Understanding Race which is accompanied by a series of blogs and an open syllabus available. She is co-editor of the Rowman and Littlefield International book series Challenging Migration Studies, and former President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-20). She is on the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities, Journal of Australian Studies, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, and the Pluto Books series Vagabonds.

Maria Elena Indelicato | (she, her, hers) 2019 CEEC FCT researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. Besides her project 'A colonial history of anti-racism education,' she works for the FCT funded projects UNPOP and (De)Othering as a researcher and consultant respectively. Indelicato obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 at the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, where she also assisted historian Victoria Grieves with the ARC funded project 'More than family history: race, gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history'. Following, she was appointed as lecturer at the School of Communication, Ningbo Institute of Technology (NIT), Zhejiang University, where she also acted as international vice-director of the Huallywood Film Research Center. In 2018, she was awarded with the Endeavour Research Fellowship to investigate how migrants contributed to the settler colonial project of replacing indigenous people in Australia.

Silvia Rodríguez Maeso | PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country). Silvia is Principal Researcher at CES and member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). She lectures in the PhD Programmes: "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" (CES/IIIUC)and "Sociology of the State, Law and Justice" (CES/FEUC, starting in 2021-2022). She is currently coordinating the research project POLITICS - "The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles" (ERC, 2017-2022). Silvia has developed her research and teaching activities in postgraduate courses in the areas of critical race studies, anti-racism and decolonial thinking with a focus on: power and knowledge production; integration and inclusion public policies, and antidiscrimination socio-legal discourse. She is currently developing research on racialization and residential segregation, police violence and security public policies in European and Latin-American contexts, focusing on antiblack racism and antigypsysim.

Anna-Esther Younes | Scholar of race critical theories, psychoanalysis and (settler) colonial studies. She works primarily on the intersections of the historical and contemporary figurations of Jews and Muslims in Germany (and Europe) and how both are put in conflict through today’s discourse on an ostensible “New anti-Semitism”. In her PhD, titled “Race, Colonialism and the Figure of the Jew in a New Germany” (2015/2016) she traced the polit-economic and psychic investments into the figure of the Jew for a white German nation. For several years Younes wrote the German country report on Islamophobia and is committed to what anthropologist call “researching up to power” and “researching home”. Currently, she works on finding publishers for her small book "Seducation" which critically reads the ontological and epistemic investments in researching down in higher education. Her work can be accessed on academia.edu or on her personal website https://annaestheryounes.net

Sivamohan Valluvan | Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and is the author of the 2019 Clamour of Nationalism (Manchester University Press). He has written widely on debates of race and racism, nationalism and multiculture, as well as postcolonial and social theory more broadly. He has also contributed to Salvage, Red Pepper, Guardian, Fabian Review, Renewal and Juncture.