Jon Schubert
EDITOR-IN-CHIEFJon is Research Professor at the University of Basel. He joined Allegra in 2017, as a platform to push back against stifling hierarchies, theoretical grandstanding, and the fast-food scholarship of neoliberal academia. A lapsed historian, erstwhile political risk forecaster, and academic nomad, he continues to grapple with the big questions of inequality, power, infrastructures, extractivism, violent pasts and (climate) futures, and the possibility of change, mainly through the perspective of urban Angola and Mozambique.
Sara Jormakka
Managing EditorSara holds a Master of Theology (with English as a side dish) and currently works in IT. She 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 is a Research Fellow at Dublin City University. He 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 is affiliated with the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. She 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.
Julie Billaud
EDITORJulie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is one of Allegra’s founders. Her academic interests include humanitarianism, human rights, global justice and international governance.
Faduma Abukar Mursal
EDITORFaduma is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Lucern. She joined Allegra in 2023. Her research interests include the militarization of urban spaces, global governance, social justice, political violence, moral economies and Eastern Africa.
Till Mostowlansky
EDITORTill is Research Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Professor at Kyiv School of Economics. He joined Allegra’s editorial collective in 2024. He is an anthropologist researching humanitarianism, infrastructure, and Islam.
Çiçek İlengiz
EDITORÇiçek is a Research Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien (EUME) in Berlin. She particularly enjoys fluctuating between anthropology and history in her explorations of political violence, cultures of commemoration and heritage regimes. She has been a member of Allegra Lab editorial collective since 2024.
Elise Hjalmarson
EDITORElise is a Swiss National Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher currently based at the University of Lausanne. She joined Allegra in 2023, and works on transnational migration as it relates to labour, gender, and racism in and beyond Latin America and the Caribbean. 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.
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. An alumni anthropology student from Tallinn University, she wrote her Masters thesis on the lives of male migrants and refugee management in Greece.
Christina Zinsstag
Editorial assistantChris joined Allegra in 2024. She holds a Masters in history and social anthropology and is currently employed at art of intervention.