Robert Bird is an associate professor in the departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago.

Christopher P. Heuer is an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University.

Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches in the departments of visual arts and art history at the University of Chicago.

Tumelo Mosaka is curator of contemporary art at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Stephanie Smith is deputy director and chief curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.