Will Barnes
is the author of multiple articles and book chapters in 20th Century Continental Ethical, Social, and Political Philosophy and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Ethics. He is the author of A Critique of Liberal Cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism (Lexington 2022). He is on the editorial board of The Acorn Journal: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. He is an academic expert on the Ethics Now podcast, and currently teaches philosophy at New Mexico Highlands University.
Andrew Fiala
Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at California State University, Fresno. Recent published work includes: Tyranny from Plato to Trump (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022); Seeking Common Ground: A Theist/Atheist Dialogue, with co-author Peter Admirand (Cascade, 2021); Nonviolence, A Quick Immersion (Tibidabo, 2020); Transformative Pacifism (Bloomsbury, 2018); The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence (Routledge, 2017); and the 9th edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with co-author Barbara MacKinnon (Cengage, 2017). He is a past President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. He writes a weekly column on religion, politics, and ethics for the Fresno Bee.
William Gay
is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Within Concerned Philosophers for Peace, he has served as President, Executive Director, Newsletter Editor, and “Philosophy of Peace” Book Series Editor. He has published seven books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on issues of violence, war, peace, and justice. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and the Journal of Globalization Studies.
Fuat Gürsözlü
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. He is the author of Agonistic Democracy and Practical Politics: Ways of Being Adversarial, editor of Peace, Culture, and Violence, and has published several journal articles and book chapters on issues of democracy, agonism,
Leland Harper
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Siena Heights University. His research focuses on philosophy of religion and philosophy of race, particularly issues in miracles and religious experience, deism, racial solidarity, and racism. He is the author of Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World (Lexington 2020) as well as articles in Res Philosophica, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, Humanities Bulletin, Forum Philosophicum, the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, and several edited volumes, co-author of Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism (Lexington 2022), editor of The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution (Vernon Press 2022), and editor of the Philosophy of Race series at Vernon Press. He is also the organizer of the Great Lakes Philosophy Conference, an annual international philosophy conference hosted by Siena Heights University. He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and received a b.a. in General Studies from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, an m.a. in Philosophy from Toronto Metropolitan University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham. In addition to his academic pursuits, he operates Leland Harper Consulting, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm based in Toronto.
Jennifer Kling
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, self- and other-defense, international relations, protest, feminism, and philosophy of race. She is the author of The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to War (with Megan Mitchell, Rowman & Littlefield 2021), War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility (Lexington 2019), and numerous articles in journals and edited collections.
Court Lewis
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pellissippi State Community College, in Knoxville, TN. His most recent edited collection is Forgiveness Confronts Race, Relationships, and the Social (Vernon Press), and he is the author of The Real Meaning of Doctor Who, Who Cares?: My Life with Tom Baker, and Repentance and the Right to Forgiveness. He is the Series Editor of Vernon Press’s The Philosophy of Forgiveness and co-editor (with Gregory L. Bock) of The Ethics of
David Liakos
is a full-time faculty member in philosophy and humanities at Houston Community College. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters on hermeneutics and phenomenology. His current research interests include the normativity of interpretation and understanding and the relationship between the “fusion of horizons,” historical alienation, and theology.
Seth Mayer
is currently studying law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was formerly an assistant professor of philosophy at Manchester University, Indiana. His published work addresses issues in democratic theory, law and philosophy, and human rights.
Tiffany Montoya
Ph.D., is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. She has earned a b.a. from the University of New Mexico and an m.a. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, specializing in social and political philosophy. Her current research involves disclosing a foundational human ontology, and the corresponding needs for flourishing, out of which we can effectively judge the morality of a political economy. Her other lines of research include exploring the way marginal identities complicate the concept of racial essentialism, such as the Roma, “mixed” races, and historically evolving races. She also writes about the moral and political perspectives (and aesthetic expression) of the outcasts and countercultures of society, believing that liberation from hegemonic structures starts within the ideas from the periphery. She has taught a variety of courses in applied ethics as well as “Political Theory,” “Philosophy of Race,” and “Caribbean Philosophy.”
Phillip Todd
a longtime media practitioner and scholar, serves as co-coordinator for the student journalism program at Epic Charter Schools as well as faculty adviser for student publications and adjunct professor of mass communication at Oklahoma City University. He received the 2020 Penn State Davis Ethics Award winner for his dissertation on Mill’s “Utilitarianism” and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and he continues to seek useful connections among media ethics, conflict resolution, and music.
has an m.a. in Philosophy from West Chester University and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy program at Binghamton University, writing his dissertation on nonviolent resistance. He is also a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project.