Charles Barbour
is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a School-based member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. He works primarily on contemporary political theory, philosophies of technology, and the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. [c.barbour@westernsydney.edu.au]
Beverley Best
is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital (Verso, 2024), Marx and the Dynamic of the Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane) of the three- volume Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (SAGE Publications, 2018). [bev.best@concordia.ca]
Michael Billeaux-Martinez
teaches sociology at Madison Area Technical College. His research interests include race and racism, class analysis, historical change, and social theory. His writing has appeared in Du Bois Review, Historical Materialism, and Labor: Studies in Working Class History. His current research examines the interaction between race and class formation through the history of interracial labour unionism in the North American Great Lakes maritime industries. [mbilleaux martinez@gmail.com]
Tony Burns
is an Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He is one of the Co-Directors of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), based in the UK. His publications include: Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel (Avebury Press, 1996), The Hegel – Marx Connection (edited with Ian Fraser, Loughborough University; Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2008), The Legacy of Leo Strauss (edited with James Connelly, University of Hull; Imprint Academic, 2010), Aristotle and Natural Law (Continuum Books, 2011), Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition (edited with Simon Thompson, UWE; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition, Volume 1: From the Ancient Greeks to the Reformation (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020), and Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the French Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). He is currently writing Masters and Slaves: Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From Hegel to the Present, which is to be published by Manchester University Press. [tony.burns@nottingham.ac.uk]
Larry Alan Busk
is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Eckerd College. He is the author of The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) and Democracy in Spite of the Demos (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020). His articles on political philosophy and climate change have appeared in Philosophy & Social Criticism, Constellations, and many other journals. [buskla@eckerd.edu]
David Calnitsky
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include social policy, social theory, and social change, and his research has been published in Socio-Economic Review, Sociological Theory, Social Problems, Catalyst, Sociology Compass, Canadian Review of Sociology, Contexts, Critical Sociology, The Sociological Review, Du Bois Review, and Social Science History. His new book project examines how social change succeeds and fails. [dcalnits@uwo.ca]
Aaron Jaffe
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School. He is editor at Spectre Journal and the author of Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy (Pluto Press, 2020). He has published widely on Marxism and critical theory in, for instance, Science and Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Socialism and Democracy, and Thesis Eleven. He is currently working on a book-length treatment of Marx’s ‘primitive accumulation’. [ajaffe@juilliard.edu]
Kaan Kangal
is Professor at the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He is primarily interested in Marx – Engels research, the history of MEGA1 and MEGA2, Young Hegelianism, classical German philosophy, and German Marxism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work on Marx’s Bonn Notebooks won the 2019 David Riazanov Prize. His most recent book is Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He is currently working on the later Marx’s notebooks on agriculture, ecology, the natural sciences and communal property. [kaankangal@gmail.com]
Adam Mayer
is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the American University of Iraq – Baghdad, and at Széchenyi István University in Győr, Hungary. He is a historian of African Political Thought, specialising in African Marxism. His monographs are: Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (Pluto Press) and Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 (Lexington Books). He has also published with Journal of the African Literature Association, Review of African Political Economy, African Identities, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and Historical Materialism. [adama_hu@yahoo.co.uk]
Maïa Pal
is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She recently published Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and ‘Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Capitalism and Infrastructure’ (TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique, 22, 1: 232–47, 2024). [mpal@brookes.ac.uk]
Elizabeth (Eli) Portella
is assistant professor of philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. Their articles have appeared in Feminist Theory, Radical Philosophy Review, and other journals. They are currently drafting a book manuscript on theories of imperialism, the anticolonial tradition, and the ecological catastrophe. [sport ella@fgcu.edu]
Darren Roso
is a Melbourne-based independent researcher, currently working on the theoretical and political thought of Karl Korsch. He is the author of Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager, forthcoming in Brill’s Historical Materialism book series. He is currently coordinating the translations into English of Bensaïd’s writings and has a chapter on his theoretical work in the Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021). [darren roso@gmail.com]
Cihan Tuğal
is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. His first book, Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2009), studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularisation among the poor. In his second book, The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso, 2016), Tuğal analysed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran. His third book, Caring for the Poor (Routledge, 2017), discussed liberalism’s uneasy relationship to charitable ethics. Tuğal has also published research on American, Turkish, Eastern European, and South and Southeast Asian politics, eco-social dynamics, and social movements in scholarly journals, as well as in newspapers, political journals, and print and e-magazines such as Jacobin, New Left Review, New Politics, OpenDemocracy, The Guardian, Spectre, and Jadaliyya, and written extensively in Turkish. He is now working on a book on right-wing populist regimes across the non-advanced capitalist world. [ctugal@berkeley.edu]
