Uma Rani holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hyderabad. She specializes in labour and institutional economics, and has recently joined the International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva, as a researcher.
Gail Omvedt (born 2 August 1941) is an American-born Indian scholar who has written extensively on caste and Dalit politics. She is the author of Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994), Buddhi
Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, columnist, and short fiction writer. She teaches at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley, and is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Milita
Meghan Daum is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the essay collection My Misspent Youth. She is also the author of Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House and The Quali
Brian Pollitt has worked in Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua. His later research has focused on problems of transition in socialist economies. He has held teaching and research positions at the Universiti
Roland Boer is not your average scholar, nor is he a typical theologian. The academic who enjoys stirring up debate with articles under such arresting titles as 'Lenin the Nudist', believes a measu
Raya Dunayevskaya was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America. At one time Leon Trotsky's secretary, she later split with him and ultimately found
