Carol A. Breckenridge teaches at the in the department of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is the founding editor of Public Culture.

Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.

Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Harvard University.

Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches in the departments of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Sheldon Pollock is the The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and

Indian Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and

Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of

The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit,

culture, and power in premodern India (2006) and editor of a number

of books, including LITERARY CULTURES IN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTIONS

FROM SOUTH ASIA (2003) and (w/Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, and

Dipesh Chakrabarty) COSMOPOLITANISM (Duke, 2002).