Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is the author of Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Art and Technology in Human Experience; Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; and Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene.Sotirios Barber is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Constitutional Failure; Fallacies of States’ Rights; Welfare and the Constitution; The Constitution of Judicial Power; On What the Constitution Means; and The Constitution and the Delegation of Congressional Power.Peter Burke, professor emeritus of cultural history at Cambridge University and a fellow of Emmanuel College, has published thirty books, translated into more than thirty languages, including Ignorance: A Global History; A Social History of Knowledge (in two volumes); Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge; and The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag.William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University. His books include One Hundred Semesters; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; and The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.Francis X. Clooney, SJ, is Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of comparative theology at Harvard Divinity School. A fellow of the British Academy, his many books include Hindu God, Christian God; His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence; Learning Interreligiously; Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders; Beyond Compare; Seeing through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas of South India; Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary; and Theology after Vedanta.Ronald Edsforth, currently a research associate in the Dartmouth College Department of History, is a retired professor of history and globalization studies. He is the editor of A Cultural History of Peace: Antiquity to the Modern Age, in six volumes, and is currently working on a book about the early years of the global NGO Save the Children.Robert J. W. Evans is Regius Professor of History Emeritus at Oxford University and author of The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation, for which he received the Wolfson History Prize; Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 1576–1612; and Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683–1867.Simon Goldhill, vice president of the British Academy, is professor of Greek literature and culture at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College. His books, which have been translated into ten languages and have won three international prizes, include Who Needs Greek?; Language Sexuality Narrative: The Oresteia; How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today; The Temple of Jerusalem; Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity; and Foucault's Virginity.Baogang He is honorable professor at Tianjin Normal University, China, and holds a personal chair in international relations at Deakin University, Australia. His books include The Democratisation of China; The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China; Rural Democracy in China; Governing Taiwan and Tibet; and Deliberative Democracy in Asia (coedited with Michael Breen and James Fishkin).Taylor Johnston-Levy is a postdoctoral fellow in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature at Ben Gurion University.Bruce J. Krajewski received the Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association for his edition of Gadamer on Celan. Professor and chair of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, he is the author of Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric and of Gadamer's Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics.Susan R. Kramer is the author of Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West and coauthor, with Caroline Walker Bynum, of “Revisiting the Twelfth-Century Individual: The Inner Self and the Christian Community.”Yinghua Lu, professor at Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and in the Department of Philosophy at East China Normal University, and currently a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of Confucianism and Phenomenology: An Exploration of Feeling, Value, and Virtue.Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch is emeritus professor of the history of the church at Oxford University and a fellow of both St. Cross College and Campion Hall. His many books include Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490–1700, which received the British Academy Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Wolfson History Prize; A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, which won the Cundill History Prize; and Thomas Cranmer: A Life, which received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His latest book is Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. His Gifford Lectures of 2011 were subsequently published as Silence: A Christian History.Vasyl Makhno has published fourteen collections of poetry in Ukrainian, as well as a novel, a book of short stories, and five volumes of essays, widely translated into many languages. Three of his poetry collections, Winter Letters, Paper Bridge, and Thread, and Other New York Poems, are available in English translation. He received the BBC Book of the Year Award in 2015, as well as the Kovaliv Fund Prize, Serbia's International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry, and the International Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter Literary Prize. Ali Kinsella has won the Kovaliv Fund Prize for her translation of Taras Prokhasko's novella Anna's Other Days and has been awarded a Peterson Literary Fund grant to translate Vasyl Makho's novel Eternal Calendar.Simonetta Moro, president of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Portland, Maine) and professor of art, philosophy, and visual studies there, is the author of Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography. The Vattimo Dictionary, which she edited, was published in 2023. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York at White Box Gallery, BRIC Art House, and the Center for Architecture, as well as in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art and in Italy at the Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara) and the American Academy in Rome.Jeffrey M. Perl's books include Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot; The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature; and (as editor) Peace and Mind: Civilian Scholarship from “Common Knowledge.” The founder and editor 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.Paolo Pombeni is emeritus professor of the history of European political systems at the University of Bologna, where he directed the Institute for Advanced Studies. He was also director of the Kessler Foundation's Italian-German Historical Institute and received the Tartufari Prize for Constitutional History from the Accademia dei Lincei. His books include Che cosa resta del ’68; Lo stato et la politica: Quanto contano nel mondo globale di oggi; La ragione et la passione: Le forme della politica nell'Europa contemporanea; La questione costituzionale in Italia; Giuseppi Dossetti: La avventura politica di un riformatore cristiano; La buona politica; and L'apertura: L'Italia et il centrosinistra (1953–1963).Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of fourteen best-selling books, including A Hacker's Mind. His newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security have more than 250,000 readers.Radhika Seshan is emeritus professor of history at Savitribai Phule Pune University and is currently a visiting faculty member of the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts in Pune. Her books include The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1300–1800 and, as coeditor, Wage Earners in India, 1500–1900 and Connecting the Indian Ocean World.Vernon Shetley, professor of English at Wellesley College, is the author of After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America. He is currently completing a book manuscript on neo-noir filmmaking.Jane Suiter is professor of political communications at Dublin City University and director of its Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society. She was a founding member in 2011 of We the Citizens, Ireland's first deliberative experiment, and has been involved in research and oversight capacities with the Irish Citizens’ Assembly (2012–22). She was the Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year in 2020. Her coauthored books include Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line, which received the Brown Democracy Medal; Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media; and Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe.Miguel Tamen, professor at the University of Lisbon, is the author of Closeness; What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books; Friends of Interpretable Objects; Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation. His most recent book (with Brett Bourbon) is Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork (2024).G. Thomas Tanselle, who was vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 to 2006, is coeditor, with Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker, of the fifteen-volume Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville (1968–2017). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society (London) and is textual adviser to the Library of America, on whose board he has served since he helped found the organization in 1979. He is the author of, among other books, American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection; Books in My Life; A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing; Textual Criticism since Greg; Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction; Essays in Bibliographical History; and Literature and Artifacts.Yuval Taylor is the author of Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal; coauthor of Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop and Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music; and editor of three volumes of American slave narratives.Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, is the author of The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society; and The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period, for which she received the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association and the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Jewish studies.Pierre-Étienne Vandamme is a senior postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at KU Leuven and the author of Démocratie et justice sociale. He is currently writing a book on hybrid mixtures of electoral democracy, direct democracy, and sortition.