Darryl Li is associate professor of anthropology and associate member of the law school at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, 2020) was an ethnographic study of "jihadist foreign fighters" thinking about questions of universalism and solidarity. He is currently writing a book theorizing captivity through the lens of Guantanamo and other sites of enforced holding under the U.S.-led War on Terrorism in an attempt to connect questions of abolition and anti-imperialism. As a member of the bar in New York and Illinois, Li has been involved in litigation against War on Terror practices and has volunteered as an intake attorney for abolitionist bail funds in the Chicagoland area. Outside of his formal academic work, he also writes about colonialism, racialization, and law in Palestine.