Dr. Amanda Shubert is teaching faculty in the Department of English at UW–Madison. A Jewish person of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Eastern European descent, Dr. Shubert is an expert in the literature and culture of the nineteenth-century British Empire. Her current research focuses on the experience of Arab Jews in British India, highlighting her family history in Iraq, Syria, and Calcutta in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first monograph is forthcoming from Cornell University Press and her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Social Science Research Council.

Dr. Jill H. Casid is a senior fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities and professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women Studies at UW–Madison. A queer feminist artist, theorist and historian of Jewish descent, Dr. Casid’s work — from their first monograph Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005) to published essays such as “With Palestine Still” for the Journal of Visual Culture’s Palestine Portfolio and most recently “Dear Lina” — has been engaged with contributing to suppressed histories of Jewish thought critical of the Zionist project and colonization. With the support of the UW–Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award, Dr. Casid is completing a film trilogy that draws on their own family’s Holocaust history for foreclosed solidarities while finishing a two-book project on ways in which we are made to live our dying on a dying planet that in a situation of forced disposability. 

Dr. Samantha Bosco is a postdoctoral research associate in Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW–Madison. Here, she leads qualitative research in a multi-institutional community-engaged transdisciplinary project examining drivers and barriers of agroforestry adoption amidst the conservation policy landscape in the upper Midwest. Her previous work examined the queer and Indigenous ecologies of agroforestry in the Northeast. Outside of her research, Dr Bosco channels her experiences as a trans, queer, anti-Zionist Ashkenazi Jew into performing original acoustic punk music focusing on queer and trans empowerment and solidarity with Palestinian liberation. In 2024, her music helped raise over $4,000 to support Palestinian relief efforts and mutual aid for Stop Cop City protesters. She also is an active member of Jewish Voice for Peace-Madison. 

Dr. Lola Loustaunau is an assistant professor in the School for Workers at UW–Madison. A labor sociologist focused on migration and collective organizing, Dr. Loustaunau has been conducting research on the physical and mental health impacts of precarity and displacement among migrant women, and teaching workshops for adult learners in the community using liberatory approaches to pedagogy. She is a member of Voces de la Frontera and is a board member of Workers Justice Wisconsin, an interfaith labor organization. As a Latin-American diasporic Jew, she is interested in the relationship between bordering regimes, displacement, health, and collective resistance. In her time in Wisconsin, she has also been involved in public teaching regarding antisemitism and diasporic experiences of Jewishness.