Alecia Y. Jackson is Professor of Social Theory and Research at Appalachian State University, USA, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program. Her work seeks to animate philosophical frameworks in the production of the new, and her current projects are focused on the ontological turn, qualitative inquiry, and thought. Lisa A. Mazzei is Alumni Faculty Professor of Education at the University of Oregon, USA, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy. She is interested in philosophically informed inquiry that opens thought to the not yet.