Lindsay Massara
Lindsay Massara is a PhD candidate in Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research broadly considers British colonial administration and the genealogy of common law emergency. She traces the phenomena of emergency and martial law through case studies across Jamaica, Ireland, and India in an effort to magnify circuits of power and complicate common law formations of race, property logics, and a rule of law. Her work is situated within sociolegal and legal history spaces, informed by critical legal studies and TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law). Recently, Lindsay co-authored a chapter with Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon Law School) on slavery, critical methodologies, and the power of speculative history for The TWAIL Handbook (Antony Anghie, B.S. Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson, and Vasuki Nesiah eds.) and has previously published on liberation, transgression, and property with Greg Baltz (Rutgers Law).
Brenna Bhandar
Prior to joining the Allard School of Law at UBC in 2021, Brenna Bhandar was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and previously held faculty positions at Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School and the University of Reading Law School. She has also held visiting appointments at L’École des hautes études en science sociales (Paris) and the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (South Africa). She is the author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), and a research associate at the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London and a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective.
Dennis Britton
Dr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature, with a focus on the history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance (2014), and has recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Spenser Studies on “Spenser and Race.” He is currently working on two books, Shakespeare and Pity: Feeling Difference on the Early Modern English Stage and Reforming Ethiopia: African-Anglo Relations in Protestant England.