Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, Nelson Mandela, visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, and Writer-in-Residence at Birkbeck School of Law. His most recent book is What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015).

Ferit Güven is professor of philosophy at Earlham College.

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University and the author of Neither Victim Nor Survivor. She is presently working on a book to be titled Arendt and Husserl: Phenomenology, Totalitarianism, and the Banality of Evil. Nissim-Sabat has published book chapters on the work of thinkers including Lewis Gordon, Richard Wright, and Herman Melville as well as written numerous book reviews and articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis.