Contributors

Benjamin Balthaser is Associate Professor of Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature at Indiana University, South Bend.  He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (Verso 2025), Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (UMich 2016) and Dedication (Partisan 2011). He is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Council and is Associate Editor of American Quarterly. 

Michael Drexler is Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is the author of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr and editor of The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies.

Keith P. Feldman is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America.

Alyshia Gálvez is Associate Professor and Director of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies at Lehman College. She is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants and Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox, which was awarded the 2012 Book Award by the Association of Latino and Latin American Anthropologists.

Emmaia Gelman is Executive Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is the author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (UC Press, 2026) and a member of the academic council of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Glenn Hendler is Professor of English and American Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs and co-editor of Keywords for American Cultural Studies.

Barry Trachtenberg is the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is a historian of modern European and American Jewry, and the author of three books, The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (Rutgers, 2022); The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (Bloomsbury, 2018); and The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (Syracuse, 2008). He is a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.