Sharon V. Betcher is a freelance academic living on Whidbey Island, Washington, and Affiliate Professor of Theology, Research and Teaching Fellow, at Vancouver School of Theology. She is the author of two academic manuscripts, Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Fortress, 2007) and Spirit and Cosmopolis: Theology for Seculars (Fordham, forthcoming 2013) as well as essays on ecological, postcolonial, and disabilities theologies within multiple anthologies. Over the past several years, she...

Shaun Marmon is a specialist in the history of pre-modern Islamic societies with a focus on Egypt. Her published works include Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society and Slavery in the Islamic Middle East. She has a particular interest in the Mamluk period. Her research and teaching interests include the history of slavery in the Islamic world, the construction of gender in Islamic societies (in both the past and in the present) and the historical configurations of social networks...

Gayle Salamon specializes in phenomenology, gender and queer theory, critical theory and visual culture. She is the author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (Columbia University Press, 2010) on embodiment and transgender subjectivity. Recent articles include “Transfeminism and the Future of Women’s Studies” in Women’s Studies on the Edge and “Justification and Queer Method, or: Leaving Philosophy” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 24 No. 1, Winter...

Daud Ali is an historian of pre-Mughal South Asia. His area of training and expertise is early medieval South Asia, but his research interests have expanded over the years. His research has focused on the history of mentalities and practices in pre-Sultanate South Asia, and he has published on a wide range of subjects, including: courtly and monastic discipline, mercantile practices, conventions in erotic poetry and courtship, slavery, ideas of space, time, and history in inscriptions, early...