Professor Meyers was trained in anthropology and public health science at Johns Hopkins University and studied studio arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine and teaches courses in the medical school and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Meyers is the author of All That Was Not Her (Duke University Press, 2022), Chroniques de la maladie chronique (Presses Universitaires de France, 2017) and The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (University of Washington Press, 2013), and he is the co-author of Violence’s Fabled Experiment (with Richard Baxstrom, August Verlag, 2018), The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (with Stefanos Geroulanos, University of Chicago Press, 2018), Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (with Richard Baxstrom, Fordham University Press, 2016), and Experimente im individuum: Kurt Goldstein und die Frage des Organismus (with Stefanos Geroulanos, August Verlag, 2014). Alongside Nancy Rose Hunt and Achille Mbembe, he co-edits the Theory in Forms book series at Duke University Press.

T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology. He is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and his essays have appeared in magazines, journals, and catalogues worldwide. His published work centers broadly on the conjunction of art and politics, examining the ability of artistic practice to invent innovative and experimental strategies that challenge dominant social, political, and economic conventions.

Demos is the author of numerous books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013)—winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award—and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2013). Earlier books include The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), and Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (MIT Press/Afterall Books, 2010). Demos co-curated Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, at Nottingham Contemporary in January 2015, and organized Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting, at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid in 2014. He has served on the Art Journal editorial board (2004-08), and currently sits on the editorial board of Third Text, and on the advisory board of Grey Room. During 2018-20, with the Center for Creative Ecologies, Demos is working on Beyond the End of the World, a Mellon-funded research project, series of art exhibitions, and book project dedicated to the questions: What comes after the end of the world? And how can we cultivate futures of social justice within capitalist ruins?