Ordinary Rebels

Rebecca Donner was a 2023-2024 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to international historical scholarship. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her most recent book is The New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, a fusion of biography, espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American graduate student who became a leader of the largest underground resistance group in Berlin during the Second World War. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and the Chautauqua Prize, and was selected as a New York Times 100 Most Notable Books of the year.

Peter Pomerantsev is the award-winning author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (2024), This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019), and Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (2014). He is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Arena Program, dedicated to investigating the roots of disinformation and what to do about them. He has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee

Suzanne Cope is a scholar and narrative journalist, and is the author of Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. Her work on themes of political and social change, feminism, food, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Aeon, and others. She is a professor at New York University.