Algernon Austin is a sociologist of racial relations with a specialization on black Americans. Prior to joining the Economic Policy Institute, he was assistant director of research at the Foundation Center and a Senior Fellow at the Demos think tank. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the faculty of Wesleyan University. Austin is the author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America and Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century. He has published scholarly articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of African American Studies, and Race, Gender and Class.
Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program of the World Security Institute in Washington, D.C. where he manages projects on traditional and non-traditional security issues in China, including space, energy and health. He was a visiting researcher in the Freeman Chair in China Studies n Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has studied and worked in Taiwan and mainland China for eight years.
