Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton teaches politics at Babson College in Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Political Theory) from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and his research centers on transgressive violence, structural injustice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Text (Palestine Now), The Journal of Political Science Education, Arab Studies Quarterly, The Guardian, Politics/Letters, and WarScapes, among others. He is a co-translator of Lex Icon (Ugly Duckling Press, 2024) and is currently writing a book on the concept of atrocity in Western political thought. He is also co-editor at Sputnik & Fizzle, a small press that publishes annotated lectures by artists, activists, and scholars. Kris lives in Cambridge, MA with his partner and daughter.