Jon Schubert
EDITOR-IN-CHIEFJon joined Allegra in 2017, as a platform to push back against stifling hierarchies, theoretical grandstanding, and the fast-food scholarship of neoliberal academia. He is now part of the team taking care of thematic threads. A lapsed historian, erstwhile risk forecaster, and precariously employed academic nomad, he continues to grapple with the big questions of inequality, power, infrastructures, pasts and futures, and the possibility of change, mainly through the perspective of urban Angola and Mozambique.
Sara Jormakka
Managing EditorSara is a Master of Theology (with English as a side dish) who currently works in IT and dreams of writing a dissertation on video games some day. She is passionate about communication, art and all kinds of media, and on her spare time she writes comics. At Allegra, her lot is to make sure everything runs smoothly on the website.
Ian M. Cook
EDITORIan joined Allegra in 2015. His work focus includes urban India, scholarly podcasting, opening up higher education for displaced learners, and environmental (in)justice.
Agathe Mora
EDITORAgathe has been an editor at Allegra since August 2018. An anthropologist of legal and political processes, she works with legal professionals in Kosovo, the EU and the UN and writes about the bureaucratisation of human rights, transitional justice and property restitution. She is a lecturer in Social Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne.
Julie Billaud
EDITORJulie is one of Allegra’s founders. Her academic interests include humanitarianism, human rights, global justice and international governance. After some nomadic wanderings in Kabul, Bangkok, Paris, Berlin, London and Brighton, she is now living in Geneva where she teaches anthropology, writes about bureaucracy and studies humanitarians and other do-gooders.
Faduma Abukar Mursal
EDITORFaduma joined Allegra in 2023. Her academic research interests include the militarization of urban spaces, global governance, social justice, political violence, moral economies and Eastern Africa.
Till Mostowlansky
EDITORTill joined Allegra’s Editorial collective in 2024. He is an anthropologist researching humanitarianism, infrastructure, and Islam.
Çiçek İlengiz
EDITORÇiçek joined Allegra in 2024. She particularly enjoys fluctuating between anthropology and history in her explorations of radical political imaginations, cultures of healing and heritage regimes. Her writings engage with commemoration, mourning, world heritage and afterlives. She is still precariously postdocing, nowadays in Berlin.
Elise Hjalmarson
EDITORElise Hjalmarson is a writer, educator, and organiser working at the intersection of migration, labour, gender, and race in and beyond Latin America. She is co-founder of Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture, a migrant justice collective based in the Okanagan on unceded Syilx territory in Canada. Lately Elise can be found at a candle-lit desk slogging away at her PhD thesis, editing book reviews for Allegra, and dreaming of a world without borders.
Gennady Kurushin
Web Design & MaintenanceProfessional with broad experience in graphic and web design as well as digital marketing. Completed two Master’s degrees. Passionate about popularising scientific knowledge and working with others to bring creative ideas to life. Visit portfolio here: cobalt.fi.
Kanchi Ganatra
EVENTS & SOCIAL MEDIAKanchi first got interested in researching conflicts, borderlands and migration during her visit to Israel and Palestine in 2016. A year later, she migrated to Estonia from her home city, Mumbai. As an anthropology student at Tallinn University she thinks that she has seen the value of unmediated experience – a core promise of anthropology – and is now writing her Masters thesis about the lives of male migrants and refugee management in Greece.
Dana McKelvey
Editorial AssistantDana McKelvey is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University. Her research interests include social movements, affect and the body, music and sound studies, and everyday experiences of the state in the Balkan context. Dana has lived off and on in her field site of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2013, where she has previously worked as a Fulbright scholar, journalist forBalkanist magazine, and researcher for the Urban Policy pillar of MOST, a hub of artists, festival organizers, and stakeholders in the Balkan music industry.
Djanet Rose Costantini
Editorial assistantDjanet joined Allegra in 2024. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology in Basel, where she enjoys addressing the topics of mobility and immobility, belonging, human rights, agency and resistance. In addition, she likes to engage with sensory filmographic ethnography and imaginative storytelling.
Christina Zinsstag
Editorial assistantChristina joined Allegra in 2024. She recently finished her masters in history and social anthropology and is currently employed at art of intervention (https://theartofintervention.blog/).