Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program and the Co-Chair of Media Studies. From 2017-2024, they also served as Chair of Global Black Studies.

An anthropologist and artist, McGlotten's interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of black study, queer theory, digital media, and contemporary art. Their work investigates emerging networked intimacies, messy computational entanglements, and their impacts on queer of color lifeworlds. 

They are the author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality  (SUNY Press, 2013). They are also the co-editor of two edited collections, Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation have supported their work.

With Helen V. Pritchard they co-edit the MIT/Goldsmiths Future Media book series, and with Sareeta Amrute, Alex Cho, and Rachel Kuo, the Critical Race and Digital Studies book series with New York University Press.

Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life.
Credit: Cover concept and image by Raafat Hattab. Drawing by Jakob Lorenzo.

Kate Gilmore was born in Washington D.C. in 1975 and lives and works in New York, NY. Gilmore received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2002) and her Bachelors degree from Bates College, Lewiston, ME (1997). She has participated in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia (2011), PS1 Greater New York, MoMA/PS1, New York, NY (2005 and 2010) in addition to solo exhibitions at The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2014), MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2013), Public Art Fund, Bryant Park, New York, NY (2010), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (2008), Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2006). She has been the recipient of several international awards and honors such as the Guggenheim Fellowship(2018), Anonymous Was A Woman (2018), Art Prize/ Art Juried Award, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2015), Rauschenberg Residency Award, Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL (2014), Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2007/2008), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY (2009/2010), Art Matters Grant, New York, NY (2012), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence, New York, NY (2010), the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, New York, NY (2006), "In the Public Realm", Public Art Fund, New York, NY (2010), The LMCC Workspace Residency, New York, NY (2005), New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship, New York, NY (2012 and 2005), and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2010). Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, Indianapolis; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Gilmore is a Professor of Art and Design at Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY.

Professor Elizabeth Guffey is the coordinator of the MA program in modern and contemporary art, criticism, and theory at Purchase College. She is co-editor of Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury, 2020) with Bess Williamson. She is also author of Designing Disability: Symbols, Spaces and Society (Bloomsbury, 2017).  

Her Posters: A Global History (Reaktion, 2014) reexamines the poster's roots in the 19th century and explores the relevance they still possess in the age of digital media. She is also the author of Retro: The Culture of Revival (Reaktion, 2006). Professor Guffey is the author of numerous articles on design and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture, published by Routledge.

Jeanine started in mathematics and then went into computer science.  Her fascination with origami (paper folding) started in childhood. Now she combines all of these fields along with work in general education and literacy in mathematics, statistics and technology.

Professor Warren has taught at Purchase since 2006. Her areas of specialty are Russian Modernism and the development of Modern Craft.

Her book, Mikhail Larionov and the Cultural Politics of Late Imperial Russia, was published by Ashgate Press in 2013, and reissued by Routledge in 2016. In 2014, she curated the exhibition, This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Nonconformism to Global Capitalism, Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection, at the Neuberger Museum of Art.

Prof. Warren has been the recipient of awards from the Dedalus Foundation, the Clark Art Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2013-14, she was named the James Renwick Senior Fellow in American Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Her current research examines the relationship between craft revivals and the development of counterculture communities in the Northeast. 

Raphael Zollinger is a contemporary multimedia artist based in Brooklyn.  He joined the faculty in 2013.

Zollinger works across multiple media investigating systems of representation that breaks down the distinctions between image and object, expression and documentation, icon and index, art and technology. This process enables him to question how objects and images build and shed meaning over time within a screen-based culture. With these works, Zollinger seeks to bridge the every day and the political, connect history with the present, and in turn, blur the border between personal and collective memory.

Zollinger received his BFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute, a Masters degree from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, attended Skowhegan and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He has recently exhibited work at Lesley Heller Projects, Margret Thatcher Projects, Station Independent Projects, Danese Corey Galley and Denny Gallery in NYC, Gray Contemporary in Houston, TX, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Ballroom Marfa, TX, Grounds For Sculpture and The Jersey City Museum in NJ, and the LimLip Art Museum, South Korea. Zollinger's work has been reviewed and published in the New York Times, Houston Press, Art Forum, and Sculpture Magazine.