Margot Bouman is Assistant Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design. Her research addresses the role of television in the resurgence of the historical avant-garde in the late 1960s and the emergence of postmodernism in the late 1970s.

Jacquelin Kataneksza is a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban policy. Her work explores historical and contemporary formations of subaltern subjectivities.

Virag Molnar is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research. Her research explores the intersections of culture, politics, and social change in Europe, with a special focus on urban culture, the built environment, new communications technologies, and the material culture of radical nationalism.

Jason Lau is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research exploring innovation in China through an ethnographic study of cellphone design. 

Marisa Solomon is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research whose work traces the social and material conditions that produce trash and trashiness as the terrain upon which differentially positioned actors make claims about space, the body and aesthetics.

Jeanine Oleson is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Parsons and an interdisciplinary artist working with images, materiality and language, which she forms into complex and humorous objects, images, videos and performances. 

Manuela Badilla Rajevic is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Her work explores the intersection of the design of public memory, social movements, and post-conflict generations in Chile.

Mia Charlene White is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School, where she teaches courses related to race, space/environment, and protest. Her current work explores the multiple spatial "under-commons" (water, energy, and public space) of Black and Brown community resistance in Mississippi.

Soyoung Moon is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College. Her current research focuses on the re-definition of the “document” and the shift in its claims to the real from the post-WWII period to the present.

Mine Yildirim is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research. Her dissertation explores street dog displacements, spaces of confinement and killings in Istanbul. 

Tanya Kalmanovitch is Associate Professor at The New School’s College of Performing Arts. She uses research-creation methodologies to build intellectual and artistic projects that open new perspectives on stubborn problems, and new means by which we might imagine their resolutions.

Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School and a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby which uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.