Buck Wanner studies Dance History and completed his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University. He performs, choreographs, and writes about experimental dance. Current scholarship focuses on dance in New York in the 1990s, institutional histories of dance, and data visualization and mapping as tools for dance research. He has previously edited artist-run publications including Movement Research Performance Journal, Culturebot, and the American Realness catalog READING. Buck also holds a B.A. in Dance and M.A. in Theatre and Performance, Columbia University and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.

Stella Tan-Torres earned her B.A. in Anthropology and English Literature from Brown University, and her M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. She worked for several years in Student Services and Admissions at NYU and Columbia University. Her primary focus was on international student communities and career counseling, having trained at NYU’s Wasserman Center for Career Development. With over a decade of editing experience, Stella has taught students at all levels of higher education and professional backgrounds to improve their writing and communication skills, and has provided career counseling for people across a diverse range of industries.

Theresa Lin received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship and taught undergraduate writing. She is currently working on a novel about a woman growing up in mid-century Taiwan. She has previously taught at Fordham University and Rutgers University.

Augusta X. Thomson earned her BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Oxford University. She is currently a PhD student and Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at New York University, where her research meanders between mobility studies, ecology, theories of place and space, memory, digital media, visual culture, video ethnography, personhood, material culture, art, religion, and pilgrimage. Trained in NYU’s Graduate Certificate Program in Culture and Media, Augusta makes (often) abstract and experimental films that reflect on the natural world. She is the director and DP of Nine-Story Mountain, a feature film about the pilgrimage around Mount Kailash; the director, DP, and editor of flotsam, a short film about Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay; and is currently working on Crossings, a multi-media, interactive documentary and mapping project, inspired by the Camino de Santiago, her ethnographic field site. As a scholar committed to the trend towards “open access” in academia she has contributed to several journalistic publications, including Al Jazeera English, New Internationalist, The Daily Beast, and Geographical Magazine. Augusta often finds herself pondering the pedagogical, philosophical, and theoretical potentialities of “walking.”