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Mel Rutherford
Professor and Department Chair, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
I am a Full Professor in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour and McMaster University's first Transgender department chair. In my professional life and my personal life I work towards Social Justice, and I take an evidence-based approach to issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. We share the goal of creating a workplace where each person can bring their whole selves to work, but what are the best practices for creating this safe workplace? As psychologists, and as scientists, we have some tools at our disposal to discern which approaches work, and which lead us astray.
The work in my lab is experimental psychology motivated by evolutionary theory. We work on the questions of Social Perception and Social Perceptual Development. We study the perception of social categories, using both face-perception paradigms and essentialist paradigms. We use these approaches to explore evidence-based approaches to equity, diversity and inclusion. We are exploring developing psychological machinery underlying prosocial and moral behavior, and exploring whether we can expand our definition of our ingroup to extend our moral concern to a bigger circle . We study animacy perception, as the first developmental step in social cognition. Using eye-tracking technology, we study the development of autistic characteristics and of the broader autism phenotype.
I have developed workshops and writings on the topics of Radically Inclusive Leadership, Formal Consensus Decision Making, and Queer Etiquette.
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Melanie Boehi
Chercheuse postdoctorale, Université de Lausanne, Section d'histoire, Université de Lausanne
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Melanie Brand
Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, Macquarie University
Melanie Brand is an historian, lecturer and researcher in the field of Intelligence Studies. Her research interests include intelligence analysis and warning, oversight and accountability, secrecy, and cultural perspectives on intelligence, espionage and spying. Her research has been published in Intelligence and National Security, Cold War History and the Conversation. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2023. She is a founding board member of the Women in Intelligence Network.
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Melanie Morgan
StreeetSnap Research Associate, Swansea University
I am currently working on the StreetSnap Project as Research Associate. This Project was funded by a SMART Partnership between Swansea University, Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council. I work in the Department of Criminology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Swansea University.
My qualifications are: BSc Social Science, MSc Social Science Research Methods, PhD Social Science - ‘Class, motherhood and mature studentship – (re-)constructing and (re)-negotiating subjectivity’.
In addition to hate crime/hate visuals my research interests also centre around subjectivity, class, gender and marginalised communities. I am particularly interested in psychosocial and participatory perspectives in research.
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Melanie Murcott
Associate Professor, Institute of Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town
Melanie Jean Murcott is an associate professor of law at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town. She holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town, and an LLM (Constitutional and Administrative Law) from the University of Pretoria (both with distinction). She obtained her LLD (Constitutional Law) from North-West University in 2020. Before joining academia in 2012, Melanie practised as an attorney, including at Hogan Lovells (South Africa) where she was a partner. From 2012 to 2023, Melanie taught and engaged in research at the University of Pretoria. She authored Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism (Brill, 2022), a significant monograph which develops a novel approach to the adjudication of disputes concerning environmental protection, given that we face a planetary crisis with myriad justice implications. Melanie believes, as Maya Angelou says: “no one of us can be free until everybody is free”. Importantly for Melanie, a flourishing environment creates the necessary conditions for freedom since humans and the environment are fundamentally connected.
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Melanie Sloan
Researcher, Public Health, University of Cambridge
Melanie has been a researcher at the Department of Public Health for 14 years, following an earlier career as an RAF officer. She is currently funded by LUPUS UK and The lupus trust on several research studies. Her PhD was entitled “The impact of patient-clinician interactions on patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases”. She is passionate about equality and consistency of care for all, and all research fully involving patients as equal collaborators. Her research has generated significant media interest, with one study reported on the front page of The Times, and has been described by patients as “life-changing” particularly in highlighting that they are not alone in experiencing these symptoms and medical experiences.
Melanie’s research interests are primarily in improving relationships between clinicians and patients, and designing and trialling interventions to improve the lives of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases. Melanie is currently principal investigator/co-PI on the following studies:
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Melanie Walker
Professor Melanie Walker is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Cape Town, where she completed her PhD after teaching at disadvantaged secondary schools for a number of years. She joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor of Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF reseascher.
Before joining the UFS, she was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham in the UK where she was Director of the PhD in Higher Education, Director of Postgraduate Students and a Director of Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She retains her link to Nottingham as an Honorary Professor. Professor Walker is also Vice President of the Human Development and Capability Association (2014-2017) and a fellow of ASSAF. She has delivered numerous international keynotes and seminars, written more than 140 book chapters and refereed journal articles, and authored or edited 13 books, including two highly regarded volumes on doctoral education. Her two most recent books focus on higher education and human development, as well as educating ‘public-good professionals.
Her extensive editorial experience has included editing roles on Teaching in Higher Education, Educational Action Research, and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. In addition, she currently holds editorial board memberships on the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Professional Development, and Power and Education, undertakes refereeing for a number of international journals and book publishers, and referees proposals for various research councils.
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Melanie Zacharias
Postdoctoral researcher in forest genetics, Université Laval
I studied forestry in Germany for my bachelor and master of science. In my PhD I specialized in forest genetics and investigated treeline populations in Alaska in regard of climate change adaptation. After my PhD I started my postdoctoral research position at the Université Laval, where I research on wood traceability, and future climate suitability of poplars and oaks.
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Melina Albanese
PhD Candidate (Epidemiology), University of Toronto
Melina is an Epidemiology PhD candidate and research assistant at the University of Toronto (since 2021). Prior to starting her PhD, Melina completed her B.Sc. in Biology (2018) and M.Sc. in Population and Public Health (2021) at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Melina has several years' research experience, having previously worked as a research assistant at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and the Human Early Learning Partnership at UBC, before starting her PhD and research assistant position at the University of Toronto. Through her academic training and several research assistantships, Melina has experience utilizing quantitative methods to analyze self-reported patient data, survey data, and population-level administrative datasets. Her research ability is demonstrated by several peer-reviewed publications.
Melina's current research is at the intersection of chronic disease epidemiology and maternal and child health. She is currently working on several projects examining the reproductive health of people with chronic health conditions. Her PhD dissertation utilizes Ontario health administrative data (which are generated at every healthcare encounter) to examine the patterns of comorbid (i.e., co-occurring) chronic conditions among people with migraine with a recognized pregnancy as well as the association between pre-pregnancy maternal migraine and adverse perinatal outcomes. Melina is passionate about helping achieve health equity for people living with chronic health conditions such as migraine.
In addition to being a student at the University of Toronto, Melina is also a trainee member of the Women's Health Research Cluster based at UBC and a trainee member of the 2-year interdisciplinary CIHR-funded Guiding interdisciplinary Research On Women's and girls' health and Wellbeing program (2022/23-2023/24 cohort).
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Melina Jobbins
Researcher, Evolutionary Biology, University of Zurich
I have a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, specialising on early vertebrates, particularly placoderms. I am now in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, doing some collaborations with Prof. Kirstin Brink's lab. I have research papers in both the vertebrate and invertebrate world. Other than research, I performed taphonomical decay experiments for my MSc, preparation work during my PhD, and have extensive experience in segmentation (Mimics) and fieldwork in remove areas.
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Melinda Jackson
Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. I am a registered Psychologist, specialising in the treatment of sleep disorders, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health. I completed my PhD in Neuropsychology and Sleep in 2009, after which I took up a postdoctoral position at the Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, USA from 2009-2011. My main research interest is in memory function and mood in obstructive sleep apnoea and other sleep disorders, and the role of treatment for sleep for improving mental health and cognitive outcomes.
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Melissa Franks
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
I joined the Family Studies faculty in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University in the fall of 2007. My program of research focuses on marital processes in the management of chronic illness. In this work, my colleagues and I investigate health lifestyles and marital interactions and their association with the physical health and psychological well-being of both marital partners. Our current work is funded by the National Institute on Aging.
I am a social psychologist, and I received my doctoral degree from Kent State University. My dissertation research ignited my continuing interest in marital processes in the context of illness. Together with my graduate mentor, Mary Ann Stephens, I investigated the social support that husbands provide to their wives who are caring for an aging parent. This work on family caregiving led me to pursue postdoctoral training in gerontology. I received an NIA postdoctoral fellowship through the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan. My postdoctoral training with Dr. A. Regula Herzog focused on productive aging and on self-making among older adults. Following my postdoctoral training, I joined the faculty at Wayne State University where I began my research on the management of chronic illness in married couples. I later returned to the University of Michigan to continue my research in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
At Purdue, I am a faculty associate in the Center on Aging and the Life Course. My families and health research is conducted through the Relationships and Healthcare Lab, in collaboration with Dr. Cleveland Shields. Several exciting projects are underway in this lab, and new projects are being developed by affiliated faculty and students. These projects will contribute new knowledge about the influence of marriage and family relationships on the health and well-being of individual members.
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Melissa Hamilton
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, University of Surrey
I carry out interdisciplinary research on issues related to domestic and sexual violence, trauma responses in victims of assault, risk assessment practices, policing, sentencing, and corrections.
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Melissa Iraheta
Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
Melissa is a multidisciplinary designer and educator working across various technologies and scales.
She works at the intersection of architecture and digital storytelling to investigate its shared experiential ground. She has produced, contributed and exhibited work at Ars Electronica Festival, Vivid Festival Sydney, The Grainger Museum and The David Roche Foundation.
Melissa has taught architecture design studios at RMIT and MSD, Melbourne University. She is currently a Research Assistant as part of the Advanced Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) hub and holds the position of Experimental Technology Coordinator at NExT LAB, Melbourne School of Design & Architecture, The University of Melbourne.
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School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University
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Melissa J. Ferguson
Melissa J. Ferguson (melissaferguson[at]cornell.edu) is an experimental social psychologist. She received her doctorate in social psychology from New York University in 2002 and then joined the psychology department at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the implicit and non-conscious cognitive processes that enable evaluation, goal-pursuit, self-control, and social behavior. Three recent topics of research in the lab are self-control (what predicts success?), first impressions (how do they form, change, and influence behavior?), and ideology (how do ideological symbols affect us?). Her research has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She is also currently a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.
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Melissa Kennedy
I am an archaeologist with over 15 years of field and research experience in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Australia. As part of my postgraduate studies at The University of Sydney, I analysed the Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, mid-to-late third millennium BC occupational sequence, which included comprehensive ceramic analysis and full stratigraphic phasing of the site. My post-doctoral work has focused upon the final publication of the later phases of occupation at Tell Um Hammad, Jordan, specifically the Early Bronze Age IV and Iron Age levels, as well as the publication of the third and early second millennia BC sequence at Tell Nebi Mend. I was a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia on the project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Project (AAKSA). I am now a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Prehistoric AlUla and Khaybar Excavation Project (PAKEP).
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Melissa Montanari
PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Melissa Montanari (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and which aims to bring food and literary studies into critical discourse.
In the Fall of 2021 Melissa taught a second year undergraduate course on Food in Media and Popular Culture. Inspired by students in her course she started a monthly newsletter called "foodstuff," which wades through the cultural, political, environmental and emotional entanglements that food elicits.
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Melissa J. Wilde
Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa J. Wilde is a sociologist of religion and inequality. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Sociology. She joined the department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, where she was undergraduate chair from 2013-2017. She has published award-winning articles in the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology. Her recent book, Birth Control Battles, demonstrates that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to eugenicist views of race, immigration and manifest destiny.
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Melissa K. Merry
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville
Melissa Merry received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, with specializations in American Politics and Public Policy. Before joining the faculty at University of Louisville, she spent one year as a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include environmental politics and policy, interest groups, and political communication. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Politics Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Online Information Review, Review of Policy Research, Policy & Internet, and Policy Studies Journal.
Melissa is the author of two books, one examining environmental groups’ communications in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, and the other examining the policy narratives of gun control and gun rights organizations. Her current research focuses on health care policy and involves analysis of public comments submitted between 2016 and 2018 in response to proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program.
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Melita Jazbec
Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Melita is a Research Principal at UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures and leader of the Resource Flows team. Her main work and research focus on circular economy in Energy, Water and Resources sectors.
Melita's research aims to identify the transition pathways to a circular economy, including development of policy, modelling resource streams and identifying options and practical solutions for businesses and governments.
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Mellissa Prunty
Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University London
Mellissa is the Divisional Lead for Occupational Therapy at Brunel University London. She is a children's Occupational Therapist by background. She qualified from the MSc (pre-reg) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. She previously completed a BSc (Hons) in Kinesiology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, while on athletic scholarship for women’s basketball. She completed her PhD on handwriting difficulties in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), which she undertook at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Prof. Anna Barnett, Dr. Mandy Plumb and Dr. Kate Wilmut. Mellissa has worked in a variety of children's' services and specialises in working with children with coordination difficulties. She founded the children's occupational therapy research clinic (Kidspace) at the university which investigates key skills and participation in childhood including handwriting, activities of daily living and cycling. The clinic currently offers placements to occupational therapy students at the university.
Membership and affiliation
Mellissa is a Professional Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She is Chair of the National Handwriting Association (NHA) . She has developed a West London Handwriting Interest Group, which brings together local parents, teachers and therapists to discuss issues concerning the teaching and learning of handwriting in children.
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Mélodie Anderson
Auxiliaire de recherche en agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables, Bishop's University
Je suis auxiliaire de recherche en Agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables (ASAD) à l'Université Bishop's, en territoire non cédé de la nation abénakise connu comme Sherbrooke, Québec.
Enrichie de mon expérience dans le milieu communautaire comme éducatrice, je m'intéresse présentement à la souveraineté alimentaire, et partculièrement aux modèles alternatifs et coopératifs de production et de mise en marché ainsi qu'à l'insécurité alimentaire. Dans le cadre de ma dernière année comme étudiante en ASAD et dans une perspective décoloniale, je réalise actuellement un projet de recherche sur la place des chercheur.euse.s en support à la souveraineté alimentaire autochtone en context canadien.
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Mélodie Beaujeu
Consultante et chercheuse, affiliée à l'Institut Convergences Migrations, Sciences Po
Actuellement consultante indépendante spécialisée sur les enjeux de migrations internationales, cofondatrice de l'association Désinfox-Migrations et membre de l’Institut Convergence Migrations, je travaille et mène des études et recherches depuis plus de dix ans sur les enjeux liés aux migrations internationales en lien avec diverses organisations (ONG, institutions publiques, organisations internationales, centres de recherche).
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Melodie McGeoch
Professor, La Trobe University
Melodie McGeoch is an ecologist that works on biodiversity change, combining theory and analytics to address central environmental challenges, including climate change impacts and biological invasions. She works across taxa and regions, including in the Antarctic, is active in the translation of science for biodiversity policy and holds multiple professional leadership positions in Australia and internationally.
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Meltem Weger
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Meltem Weger is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of A/Prof. Frederic Gachon at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland. Meltem is interested in the understanding of the role of the stress axis and the circadian clock for (patho-) physiology and metabolism.
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Melvyn Levitsky
Professor of International Policy and Practice, University of Michigan
Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, a retired Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Professor of International Policy and Practice at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is Senior Fellow of the School's International Policy Center and a member of the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC) and a Faculty Associate of the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2006, Ambassador Levitsky taught for eight years as Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Relations at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Maxwell School's Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. He has also taught as a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
In 2003 Ambassador Levitsky was elected by a vote of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to a seat on the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent body of experts headquartered in Vienna and responsible for monitoring and promoting standards of drug control established by international treaties. He served on the INCB until 2012.
During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Levitsky was Ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Executive Secretary of the State Department, Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights.
Ambassador Levitsky also served as Director of the State Department's Office of UN Political Affairs and as Officer-in-Charge of U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relations. Earlier in his career he was political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a Consul at U.S. Consulates in Belem, Brazil and Frankfurt, Germany.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa.
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Melvyn F Ternan
Senior lecturer in animation and digital media production, Sheffield Hallam University
My taught subjects include stop motion animation, animation project development and production and experimental stop motion. In 2013 my first book, Stop Motion Animation, was published by Barrons educational books and translated into six different languages for sale around the world. My research areas include production temporality, animation technique, idea genesis and animation method identification.
I previously worked as a studio animator and compositor for many years, co-founding two animation studios in Bristol before working as a freelance animator and project facilitator. During my time as a freelancer, I worked on over 150 projects covering animation, live action, online production and media distribution. I also work as a voice artist on short, award winning animations.
Since working at Sheffield Hallam University, I have realised a hidden passion for teaching animation, for helping others grow their understanding and development of this creative art form. I am honoured to have been one of the recipients of the Sheffield Hallam University Inspirational Teaching award in 2017 as well as being recipient of the college level award in 2012, 2018 and 2021.
Specialist areas of interest
Pre-Production for Animation
Stop Motion Animation
Visual Techniques within Animation
Post-Production for Animation and Animation Project Management
Melvyn also enjoys studying idea genesis, technique identification and enjoying the freedom of his motorbike.
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Mendita A. Ugembe
PhD in the Sustainable Energy Systems project in the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics, and Energy, Science Faculty, Universidade de Lisboa
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Meng (Matt) Wei
Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Meng (Matt) Wei is an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. His lab work on topics include geodesy, fault mechanics and natural hazards. Wei completed his Ph.D. in earth sciences at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
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Mensah Adinkrah
Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University
Mensah Adinkrah is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University. His current research interests focus on homicide, suicide, masculinities, death studies, and witchcraft. His newest book, Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana (August 2015), was published by Berghahn Books.
Professor Adinkrah holds academic degrees in sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a senior Fulbright research scholar to Ghana during 2003-2004.
Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Dr. Adinkrah speaks and reads Twi (Akan).
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Meredith J C Warren
Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
Meredith Warren is Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield, and is a member of SIIBS, the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. She directs the SIIBS research theme, Embodied Religion.
Warren completed her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at McGill University and from 2013–2015 held a postdoctoral position at the University of Ottawa funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et Culture. She has taught classes on women in early Judaism and Christianity, Koine Greek, ancient Mediterranean religions, and the early church. Meredith’s primary research interests lie in the cultural and theological interactions among the religions of ancient Mediterranean, especially early Judaism and Christianity. In particular, Meredith is interested in how shared cultural understandings of food and eating play a role in ancient narratives, including the Pseudepigrapha, Hellenistic romance novels, and the Gospels.
Meredith’s doctoral work, recently published as My Flesh is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51–58 (Fortress 2015), investigates how the Gospel of John makes use of Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman attitudes about sacrifice, divinity, and the consumption of human flesh in order to make claims about Jesus’ divinity.
Her current book project, titled Hierophagy: Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature, examines how characters in literature are transformed by eating otherworldly food. An article emerging from this research, “My Heart Poured Forth Understanding: 4 Ezra’s Fiery Cup as Hierophagic Consumption,” was recently published at the journal Studies in Religion.
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Meredith Ralston
Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
My research work has been mainly in the areas of women and politics, slut-shaming and sex work in Canada and the Philippines.
In my new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution published by McGill-Queen's University Press in June, I examine the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the traditional patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and anecdotes, I show how women will achieve sexual equality only when the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as “whores” are destigmatized. Illustrating how women’s sexuality is policed by both men and women, I argue that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, the book calls out Western society’s hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.
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Meredith Richards
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University
Meredith P. Richards is an associate professor of Education Policy at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on exploring the effects of educational policies on equity and stratification in schools and situating policies in their metropolitan and geographic contexts.
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