Barbara Balaj has been with the World Bank since 1989, where she has focused on transition and conflict-affected countries in Central/Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of numerous World Bank and…
Linda Henderson has taught European and American art at the University of Texas at Austin since 1978, focusing on the relation of modern art to fields such as geometry, science and technology, and mystical and occult philosophies. After receiving a…
Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Girl In Landscape (Doubleday, 1998), The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday, 2003), Chronic City (Doubleday, 2009), and Dissident Gardens. His fifth book, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday, 1999), a New York Times bestseller, won…
Matthew Goodheart, a composer, improviser, and sound artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, has gained an international reputation for his expansive approach. Following an early career as a free-jazz pianist, he has developed a wide body of work that…
Leslie Dunton-Downer holds a PhD with Distinction in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, where she was a lecturer and remains a member of the Society of Fellows. Her most book The English Is Coming!: How One Language is Sweeping the…
Tara Zahra, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, is interested in comparative approaches to modern European history, with a particular focus on migration and displacement, nationalism, gender and the family, international humanitarianism, and human rights. While her…
Brian McAllister Linn joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 1989 and is currently the Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of History. A specialist in military history, imperial and unconventional warfare, and strategic thought, Linn…
George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author, most recently, of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), which received the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Packer…
Sylvia Nasar is the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, where she co-directs the MA program in business journalism. Nasar was raised in Germany and Turkey, studied literature at Antioch College (BA,…
William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Principle Investigator of the Open Documentary Lab and the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University and a fellow…