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Vito Laterza Editor

Vito Laterza is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway, and was 2024-2025 SCAS-Nordic Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. He is an anthropologist and media scholar writing and editing for a range of scholarly journals and presses and popular media.

Casey Golomski is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire and author of two books—God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End and Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.