I’m very pleased to announce two new editors will be joining the APA Blog team as of October 1st: David V. Johnson and Sabrina D. MisirHiralall.
David V. Johnson is senior editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review. He is a former philosophy professor turned journalist with more than a decade of experience as an editor and writer. Previously, he was senior opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, where he edited the op-ed section of the news channel’s website. Earlier in his career, he served as online editor at Boston Reviewand research editor at San Francisco magazine the year it won a National Magazine Award for general excellence. He has written for The New York Times, USA Today, The New Republic, Bookforum, Aeon, Dissent, and The Baffler, among other publications. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). David earned a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University, a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, a master’s degree in classics from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley.
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Ed.D. is the author of Confronting Orientalism: A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance. MisirHiralall uses Kuchipudi Indian classical Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about Hinduism with postcolonialism in mind. MisirHiralall together with Christopher Fici and Gerald Vigna edited the text Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals for the Routledge in Religion Series. She published several articles in scholarly journals. Her most recent article, ‘(Un)Dressing to Unveil a Spiritual Self,’ is published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education. MisirHiralall received her doctorate degree in the Pedagogy and Philosophy program at Montclair State University. She taught several courses across campuses in higher education. MisirHiralall earned the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award 2015 from Middlesex County College. She currently teaches part time in the Educational Foundations Department and Religion Department at Montclair State University. She also teaches Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality part time for the Women and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University.
These two new members of the blog team join the existing editors, Nathan Eckstrand, Nathan Oseroff, and Michaela Maxwell — who has recently been promoted to Assistant Editor — and series editors Lewis Gordon and Adriel M. Trott.
As always, an important aspect of the mission for this blog is to provide a venue for APA members to share their perspectives on a broad variety of issues within the profession and beyond, and to make sure issues that are important to the membership are being addressed. If you have ideas for posts on these topics, or want to contribute on these topics, make sure to get in touch with us through our submission form.
Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is a philosopher and author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (2022), Existentialism and Romantic Love (2015) and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (2020). She was a MacDowell Fellow (2021), awarded the 2021 Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, and won a New Philosopher magazine Writers’ Award (2017). She teaches at Columbia University and the City College of New York and is former Editor-in-Chief of the APA Blog.
