Ken Alder is Professor of History and Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he served as the founding director of its Science in Human Culture Program.  Alder is a novelist and the author of three books of history: Engineering the Revolution (1997), The Measure of All Things (2002), and The Lie Detectors (2007). 

Nima Bassiri is an assistant professor at Duke University, where he teaches in the Program in Literature, Duke’s interdisciplinary humanities & cultural studies department. He is also co-director of the Duke Institute for Critical Theory. He is the author of Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

Etienne Benson is the director of Department II (Knowledge Systems and Collective Life) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms (2020) and other works on the history of environmental science and politics.

Meghna Chaudhuri is currently completing a visiting position at Boston College and will be joining Davidson College as Assistant Professor of History in July. She is working on her book manuscript A Measure of Value: Life and Labor in South Asia, 1830-1950, which examines the interlinked  history of credit, financial crises and development in 19th and early 20th century South Asia. Her interests more broadly lie in capitalism as a social form, value theory, monetary politics and the history of economic thought. 

Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He currently directs the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard, a leading center for interdisciplinary research on black holes. His books include How Experiments End; Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics; Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps; and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. His latest feature film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know.  

Adam Leeds is assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. An anthropologist by training, he is currently finishing a manuscript on the histories of economists and economic theory, of socialisms and liberalisms, and of science and technology across the Soviet century, which is tentatively entitled A Science for Socialism: Soviet Economic Theory and Cold War Modernity, 1893-1993.

Cait McKinney is Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. They are the author of Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke, 2020), and coeditor of Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC, 2019). Their current work considers the intertwined histories of AIDS Activism and digital technologies, and the ways sexuality has been used to explain data and databases since the mid 20th century.

Mary X. Mitchell is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology at the University of Toronto. A lawyer by prior training, Mitchell’s work focuses on the transnational distributional politics of radiological risk, from the crafting of new forms of sovereignty to the aftermaths nuclear disasters.