Cecilio M. Cooper holds a PhD (with Distinction) in African American Studies and a graduate certificate in critical theory from Northwestern University. Cooper researches and teaches Atlantic World literary and visual cultures, with scholarly interests ranging from cartography to alchemy to demonology to medicine. Using materials from the 13th century onward, Cooper's first book manuscript examines how Blackness figures in cosmological constitutions of territory throughout Europe and the Americas.

Christine Capetola works at the intersections of queer, Black, sound, affect and performance studies. She is interested in how both sound and "feltness" complicate ocularcentric notions of representation. She holds a PhD in American studies from the University of Texas–Austin and a MA in performance studies from New York University. Her book project, Sonic Femmeness: Black Sounds, Felt History, and Vibrational Identity, explores how Black pop stars, activists and intellectuals in the 1980s and 2010s used femmeness to navigate their historical moments of protest and pandemic.

Alexis Culotta specializes in the art and architecture of 16th-century Rome. Her research investigates the working relationships of artists and how the tensions of competition, collaboration and innovation drove artistic and architectural practice in the Eternal City and beyond.

Andrea S. Boyles is author of the books You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (UC Press, 2019) and Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort (UC Press, 2015). She is a sociologist and critical criminologist and joins Tulane University as a visiting associate professor of sociology and Africana studies.