Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, all also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, and Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.