Liza Mattutat (Dr.) is a philosopher who specialises in feminist perspectives on law and social reproduction. She is a research associate and a member of the steering committee of the Centre for Critical Studies (CCS) at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she previously was part of the DFG Research Training Group »Cultures of Critique«. She also worked in the Junior Research Group »Beyond a Politics of Punishment« at Universität Kassel. Her postdoctoral research focuses on past utopias of care.

Melcher Ruhkopf (Dr.) is a cultural studies scholar with an interest in museum studies and theories of space and subjectivity and works a research associate in the Department of Art and Knowledge at Universität Kassel. He was a doctoral candidate at the DFG Research Training Group »Cultures of Critique« at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and had a scholarship from the Claussen-Simon Foundation.