Barbara Allen:  Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech. Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, Barbara Allen does ground breaking work on environmental racism such as places like Cancer Alley in Louisiana.

Chadwick Allen: Associate professor of English at Ohio State University, where he teaches American Indian, global indigenous, and postcolonial literatures and theory.  He is the author Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke University Press, 2002) and related articles.  In 2005, he held a Fulbright Fellowship to the Turnbull Library in Wellington.

Keith Banner and Bill Ross:  Keith Banner and Bill Ross are a central part of the Art Thing Project, an initiative to discover, encourage, and assist self-taught disabled artists in their artistic pursuits. In addition both Keith Banner and Bill Ross are accomplished artists who are known for their work in mixed mediums, including drawing, collage, writing, and assemblage. A recent shows in which both artists' works appeared together is Is This Thing On?

Ali Behdad:  Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1994)

Seyla Benhabib:  Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics. Professor Benhabib is the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07. She is the author of Critique, Norm and Utopia.

Michael Bérubé:  Paterno Family Professor in Literature, teaching cultural studies at Pennsylvania State University, and the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal politics, and professional issues of higher education. From 2004-7 he ran a popular blog covering the same topics. Bérubé was named one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by conservative commentator David Horowitz; Bérubé and Horowitz have publicly debated the latter's proposed reforms to the allegedly left-wing academy.

Homi Bhabha: Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Chair of the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University; Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College.

Timothy Brennan:  Professor Brennan is affiliated with the both the English and Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Departments at the University of Minnesota. He received his doctorate from Columbia University and at present pursues interests in Twentieth-century Literary and Cultural Theory, European modernity and its relationship to the New World, and Postcolonial Theory and Theories of Globalization. Professor Brennan's most recent book, published by the University of Minnesota press in 2001, is entitled Music In Cuba.

James Charlton: Director of Access Chicago and author of Nothing About Us Without US: Disability Oppression and Empowerment (1998)

Rey Chow: Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University and author of Ethics after Idealism (1998) and The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002)

Tsitsi Dangarembga: A Zimbabwean writer, who's novel NERVOUS CONDITIONS (1988) has become a modern African classic. It was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989. Dangarembga has dealt in her works the oppressive nature of a patriarchal family structure and woman's coming-of-age.

Michael Davidson: Professor of American Literature: Modern Poetry, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies at the University of California—San Diego. His major works include, "Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation." Beyond the Boundary: American Identity and Multiculturalism. (Ed. Tim Powelll. New Brunswick: Rutgers U Press, 1999. 39-60. ) "Hearing Things: The Scandal of Voice in Deaf Performance," Enabling the Humanities: A Disability Studies Sourcebook, eds. Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson. (Forthcoming, New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.) Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics.  (U of Chicago Press, 2003.)

Carole Boyce Davies: Herskovits Professor of African Studies, Comparative Literature and African American studies at Northwestern University, and author of The African Diaspora (1999) and Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994)

Joan Dayan: Professor of English at the University of Arizona and author of Haiti, History, and the Gods (1995)

Wai Chee Dimock: The William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Dimock is the author of a study of Herman Melville's novels, Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989) and Residues of Justice (1996), an interdisciplinary exploration of law, literature, and moral philosophy which was a finalist for the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize.

Nicholas B. Dirks: The Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, where since September 2004 he has been Vice President for the Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty. His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001); and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Arif Dirlik: Professor of History at Duke University and author of Postmodernism and China (2000) and The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism (1997)

Atom Egoyan:  Atom Egoyan is an internationally renowned independent Canadian film director who is also known for his writing skill. Mr. Egoyan was educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he graduated with a degree in International Relations. He won international attention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 with his film Exotica, which won the International Critic's Prize. Mr. Egoyan won further honors at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 with his second major film, The Sweet Hereafter, which won a total of three awards. Most recently he has directed two new feature length films, Felicia's Journey in 1999 and Ararat in 2002. During the same period he also worked on three opera productions for the Canadian Opera Company, receiving particular attention for Salome in 1996.

Sara Suleri Goodyear: Professor of English at Yale University and author of The Rhetoric of English India (1992) and Meatless Days (1989)

Tyree Guyton: Detroit artist, creator of the Heidelberg Project

Michael Hardt: Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University and author of Empire (2000) and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993)

Michèle Lamont: Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She moved to Harvard in 2003 after having taught at Princeton for 15 years. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is currently serving as Chair of the Council for European Studies, the learned society of American social scientists and historians working on Europe. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and is co-director of its research program on Successful Societies.

Bruce Lawrence: Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University.  An Islamicist and a comparativist, Bruce Lawrence is a graduate of Princeton University, with a Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge), he earned his doctorate at Yale University in History of Religions. There he was trained to engage West Asia (aka the Middle East ) and South Asia, with particular reference to the cultures and languages, the history and religious practices marked as Muslim.

Françoise Lionnet: Chair of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA and author of Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (1989) and Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity (1999)

Amie Macdonald: Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College/City University of New York. Her research, scholarship, and teaching are focused on issues of racial and gender justice in higher education. She is the co-editor (with Susan Sánchez-Casal) of 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (NY: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2002).

Achille Mbembe:  Professor Mbembe teaches at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. This year he is visiting professor in the French Department of Yale University. Professor Mbembe received his doctorate degree in History from the Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne. His most recent book, published by the University of California Press in 2001, is On the Postcolony.

Walter Mignolo: William Hanes Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (1999) and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995)

Sidney Mintz:  Professor Mintz is Emertius Professor of Anthropology at The John Hopkins University where he taught from 1975 - 1997 and assisted in the founding of the Department of Anthropology. He also taught at Yale University from 1951 - 1975. Professor Mintz received his doctorate from Columbia University. His most recent book is Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past published in 1996 by Beacon Press. Professor Mintz is also well known for many other publications, including Sweetness and Power, published in 1985 by Viking Press.

Timothy Mitchell:  Professor Mitchell is affiliated with both the Politics and Middle Eastern Studies departments at New York University. He is also the Director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, also at New York University. Professor Mitchell received his doctoral degree in Politics from Princeton University and at present pursues interests in Middle Eastern politics, political economy, and postcolonial theory. Professor Mitchell's most recent book, published by the University of California Press in 2002, is Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity.

Pedro Pérez-Sarduy: Professor at Trinity College, is a poet, writer, journalist and broadcaster living in London. He is the author of Surrealidad (Havana 1967), Cumbite and Other Poems (Havana 1987 and New York 1990), and a new novel, Las Criadas de La Habana, The Maids of Havana.

Joseph Roach: Chaired the Department of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre at Northwestern University, and the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. His books and articles include Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (Columbia, 1996), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize from MLA and the Calloway Prize from NYU, The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (Michigan, 1993), which won the Barnard Hewitt Award in Theatre History, and essays in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, Theatre History Studies, Discourse, Theater, Text and Performance Quarterly, and others. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in English and Chair of the Theater Studies Advisory Committee at Yale.

Susan Sánchez-Casal: Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Hamilton College. She is author of essays on women’s testimonial literatures, U.S. Latino Studies, and the politics of multiculturalism in higher education. Susan co-edit the edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul. It was Susan’s desire that led her to study about Latino history and cultures: to unearth, document, and share collective and individual stories of struggle, courage, inspiration and love, and to put them prominently on the American map.

Saskia Sassen: Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages. She has served as co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.

Louisa Schein: Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her publications include, Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In series "Body, Commodity, Text," edited by Arjun Appadurai, Jean Comaroff, and Judith Farquhar.

Greg Siwak: Attorney for The Heidelberg Project

Doris Sommer:  Professor Sommer is affiliated with the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University where she teaches and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish. She received her doctorate degree from Rutgers University and at present pursues interests in 19th-century Narrative, Latin American Women's Literature, and Ethnic Literatures. Professor Sommer's most recent book, published by Harvard University Press in 1999, is entitled Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas.

Detroit Summer: a multigenerational and multicultural, youth-led activist group dedicated to respiriting the City of Detroit

Kay Warren: Anthology Professor at Brown University. Her research as a cultural anthropologist involves multi-sited ethnographic studies of foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence, social movements and political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies. She also works on documentary film and media issues. She is currently working on two book projects: "Human Trafficking, Global Solutions, and Local Realities across the Pacific Rim" and "Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions," co-edited with David Leheny.

Leslie Kanes Weisman: Professor and former associate dean of the School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology, which she joined as a founding faculty member in 1975. She is the author of Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, selected as "One of the Best Academic Books of 1993," as "An Outstanding Contribution to Human Rights in the United States" in 1994, and published in a Chinese language edition in 1997.

Jenenne Whitfield:  Executive Director of The Heidelberg Project