Greg Pond is a professor at the University of the South and was a founding member of Fugitive Projects in Nashville. In 2012 he completed a feature-length documentary about the architectural and political history of Trench Town in Kingston, Jamaica. He was a recipient of the Tennessee Individual Artist grant, a Kennedy Fellowship at the University of the South, and has been an artist is residence at the F+F School of Art in Zurich and the Burren College of Art in Ireland. In 2011, 2012, and 2013 he received grants from the MakeWork Foundation in Chattanooga. Pond also works as an independent writer, curator, and lecturer with projects hosted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture; Fivemyles Gallery in Brooklyn; Delta Axis in Memphis; the Frist and Cheekwood Museums of Art in Nashville; and the Hunter Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited in places such as Galway and Dublin, Ireland; Basel, Switzerland; Cairo, Egypt; Kingston, Jamaica; Charlestown, St. Kitts and Nevis; Frankfurt, Germany; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; New York; New Orleans; Memphis, Chattanooga, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Sara-Maria Sorentino is an Associate Professor of Gender & Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research and teaching excavate philosophical connections between anti-black violence, real abstraction, and social reproduction, focusing on the methodological and political challenges involved in routing German Idealism and Marxism through the problem of slavery. She has articles published with Rhizomes, Theory & Event, International Labor and Working-Class History, Antipode, Postmodern Culture, Telos, differences, Emancipations, The Comparatist, Political Theology, Law Text Culture, Qui Parle, and Society and Space. She is currently working on two books, tentatively entitled Voluntary Slavery: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Ontology (with Tapji Garba), which fashions a new genealogy of will, slavery, and theology, and With What Must Slavery Begin?, which mines the limits of Hegelian-Marxist methods to re-read the problem of racial blackness in the historiography of slavery.
