Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton teaches politics at Babson College in Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Political Theory) from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and his research centers on transgressive violence, structural injustice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique,  Social Text, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Political Science Education, Arab Studies Quarterly, The Guardian, Politics/Letters, and WarScapes, among others. He is a co-translator of Lex Icon (Ugly Duckling Press, 2024) and is currently writing a book on the concept of atrocity in Western political thought. He is also co-editor at Sputnik & Fizzle, a small press that publishes annotated lectures by artists, activists, and scholars.

Kris lives in Cambridge, MA with his partner and daughter.