George Shulman, New York University-
George Shulman teaches political thought, American studies, and critical race theory at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University. His second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), was awarded the David Easton Prize in political theory. His current book project is entitled: "Postmortem Effects: Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature."
Paper: Genre and Impasse in American Politics and Literature
Faith Hillis, University of Chicago -
Faith Hillis is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is an historian of imperial Russia, with a special interest in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century politics, culture, and ideas. Her first book, Children of Rus': Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. She is currently working on a project on Russian émigré communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following radical Russians in their travels across the world (and the tsarist secret police who pursued them), the project explores how the global diaspora of Russians abroad shaped politics in the land they had left as well as in their new host nations. Her research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the Mellon Foundation, and ACLS, among others, and she has held fellowships at Harvard and Columbia.
Paper: Conspiracy and its Curious Afterlives: The Case of Russia’s First Hack of Liberal Democracy
Timothy Melley, Miami University -
Timothy Melley is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Miami University. He is the author of The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State (Cornell 2012) and Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (Cornell 2000). His work has been discussed in The Nation, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, Le Figaro, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal, and his fiction has been featured on PRI’s “This American Life.” He is the recipient of several teaching awards. He is currently writing about the cultural politics of security.
Paper: Conspiracy, Theory, and the (Secret) Work of the State