Visiting Speakers

Peter S. Goodman is the executive business editor of The Huffington Post, where he supervises business, economic and technology coverage. He writes frequently about the upending of basic economic security for ordinary Americans and the search for new sources of quality jobs. He is represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau and regularly appears on national television programs such as MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, and most recently DEBT: The First 5,000 Years . He has written for Harper's, The Nation, Mute, and The New Left Review.

Mark Greif is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School, as well as an author and critic.

Iain Hardie's research interests include issues surrounding financial globalization, especially financialization and varieties of financial capitalism, focusing on the implications for both developed and developing countries.

Karen Ho is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of Minnesota. 

Louis Hyman attended Columbia University, where he received a BA in History and Mathematics. A former Fulbright scholar, he received his PhD in American history in 2007 from Harvard University. He is currently an assistant professor in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where he teaches history.

Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) works in contemporary political theory and is particularly interested in political institutions beyond the nation-state.

Mary Jacobus is currenlty a professor of English at the University of Cambridge and was Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) from 2006-11.