Notes on Contributors

Alex Averbuch, a native of Ukraine, has also lived in Israel and, since 2022, has been an Izaak Walton Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is the author of three volumes of poetry and many literary translations between Ukrainian, Hebrew, Russian, and English, along with works of literary history and criticism. Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, her husband, won first place in the 2014 Joseph Brodsky/ Stephen Spender translation competition and have coedited Words for War, an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry.Michael Braddick, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is British Academy/Wolfson Research Professor at the University of Sheffield and director of its Global Humanities Initiative. His books include The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution; God's Fury, England's Fire; and State Formation in Early Modern England, 1550–1700. His study Christopher Hill and the English Revolution will be published in 2024.Peter Burke is professor emeritus of cultural history at Cambridge University and a life fellow of Emmanuel College. He is the author of some thirty books, translated into more than thirty languages, from Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (1972) to Ignorance: A Global History (2023). Other recent publications include Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge and The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag.Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia, is the author of Dissimilar Similitudes; Christian Materiality; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and Jesus as Mother. She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1986 to 1991 and, in 1996, served as president of the American Historical Association.Paul Cartledge is Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at Cambridge University and, currently, Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College. An honorary citizen of modern Sparta, he holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor awarded by the president of Greece. His books include Democracy: A Life; Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World; After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars; Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities; Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece; and Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice.Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Program on Regulation. His many publications include Achieving Regulatory Excellence and Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation.Thibault De Meyer, associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Namur, Belgium, is the author of Qui a vu le zèbre? L'invention de la perspective éthologique (forthcoming).Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, is the author of more than thirty books and seven hundred articles, published in English or Russian and translated into eighteen other languages. He received the International Essay Prize of Weimar for “Chronocide,” which appeared in the spring 2003 issue of Common Knowledge.Charles Foster is a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, as well as a barrister, a part-time judge of the Crown Court, and a veterinary surgeon. His many books in several fields include Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness; Being a Beast: Adventures across the Species Divide; The Screaming Sky; Choosing Life, Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law; Elements of Medical Law; and the novel A Little Brown Sea.Inbar Graiver, the author of Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism, is managing editor of Common Knowledge.Allan Janik is an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, an adjunct professor in the Skill and Technology doctoral program at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology, and the chief dramaturge at the Innsbruck Kellertheater. His books include Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy; Theater and Knowledge: Towards a Dramatic Epistemology and an Epistemology of Drama; The Use and Abuse of Metaphor; The Concept of Knowledge in Practical Philosophy (in Swedish); Style, Politics, and the Future of Philosophy; and (with Stephen Toulmin) Wittgenstein's Vienna.Jeffrey M. Perl is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge. His many publications include Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot; The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature; Peace and Mind; and “Blindfolded” (a monograph-length article in the January 2022 issue of Common Knowledge). He taught for many years at Columbia University and the University of Texas and is now professor emeritus of English literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Colin Richmond, professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Keele, is the author of John Hopton: Fifteenth-Century Suffolk Gentleman; A Three-Volume History of the Patson Family in Fifteenth-Century Norfolk; and two volumes of Fabrications: The Adventures of Anthony Woodville.Jennifer T. Roberts is professor of classics and history at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. A past president of the Association of Ancient Historians, her publications include Accountability in Athenian Government; Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought; editions of Thucydides's Peloponnesian War and Herodotus's Histories (both with Walter Blanco); and The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece.Isabelle Stengers received the grand prize for philosophy from the French Academy in 1993. Professor of the philosophy of science at the Free University of Brussels, she is the author of Cosmopolitics (in two volumes), which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2013; Thinking with Whitehead; Power and Invention: Situating Science; The Invention of Modern Science; In Catastrophic Times; Another Science Is Possible; The Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble; Making Sense in Common; Capitalist Sorcery, with Philippe Pignard; and, with Nobel Prize laureate Ilya Prigogine, Order out of Chaos: The End of Certainty and La Nouvelle alliance: Métamorphose de la science.Daniel E. Walters, associate professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law, is the author, among other recent publications, of “The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory for a Conflictual Regulatory State,” in the Yale Law Journal; “Unrules,” in the Stanford Law Review; “The Self-Delegation False Alarm,” in the Columbia Law Review; and “Capturing the Regulatory Agenda,” in the Harvard Environmental Law Review.

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