Scott Frickel is a sociologist at Brown; James Elliot is a sociologist at Rice. The two were junior faculty together at Tulane, where they conceived of this project in the course of asking questions about the history of New Orleans’ urban geography.
Katherine McKittrick is a Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies (Black Studies, Cultural Geographies, The Arts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art), Theories of Race, Interdiscplinarity) at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. Katherine McKittrick researches in the areas of black studies, anti-colonial studies, cultural geographies and gender studies. Her research is interdisciplinary and attends to the links between epistemological narrative, liberation, and creative text. Katherine also researches the writings of Sylvia Wynter. Katherine is also editor at Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
Research and supervision areas: diasporic and colonial histories; cultural geographies; the arts (https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/people/faculty/katherine-mckittrick). Click HERE for her personal website.