Julie Y. Chu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of the award-winning ethnography Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010). She is currently finishing a book entitled The Hinge of Time: Chronopolitics and Infrastructure at China’s Global Edge. Based on fieldwork with Chinese migrant couriers and customs inspectors, this work examines how figures of ‘infrastructure’ animate the global politics of time in three key ways – as matters of constancy, rhythm and non/event. She also currently leads two collaborative  multimodal research projects on logistics: Logistics in the Making of Mobile Worlds hosted by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, and Understanding Logistics Through Multimodal Experiments in Ethnography sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Tina Harris is Associate Professor of Anthropology and a member of the Moving Matters research group at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her research focuses on aviation, infrastructure, crossborder mobility and the movement of commodities, particularly in the Himalayas. She is the author of Geographical Diversions: Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions (University of Georgia Press, 2013), and her articles have been published in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Antipode, Political Geography and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Her latest research project explores how aviation professionals around the globe are attempting to transform the future of flying in accordance with new climate legislations.