Ann Heffernan is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Her book, Disability: A Democratic Dilemma, is forthcoming from Chicago UP.

Noor Nieftagodien is the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and executive director at the South African Democracy Education Trust.

Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson, was a South African intellectual, script writer and film producer and Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He published extensively on African literature, performance and cultural studies as well as Black intellectual traditions in South Africa.