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Michael Platt
Professor of Marketing and Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Michael is known for asking some of the most challenging questions in 21st century neuroscience—and conceiving innovative ways to find the answers.
His principal questions focus on the biological mechanisms that underlie decision-making in social environments, the grasp of which has broad-scale implications for improving health and welfare in societies worldwide.
Michael's unquenchable quest for answers has led him outside the traditional boundaries of neuroscience: his broad expertise in psychology, economics, evolutionary biology, and ethology, in addition to his collaborations with colleagues in these fields, have enabled him to reach ever-deeper levels of understanding about the neural bases of cognitive behavior.
Michael's pioneering of the field goes beyond breaching its boundaries: he was among the small cadre of scientists who first rejected the long-held idea that decision-making is a reactive sensory-motor process. Instead, he adopted an economic-mathematical approach to studying its physiology, setting a precedent that has changed standard practice in the field. His particular quantitative approach has established a more realistic method of inquiry that yields improved analyses of data sets in brain research.
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Michael Posner
Co-director of the NYU Center for Business and Human Rights and the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU Stern, New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Michael H. Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance and a Professor of Business and Society at NYU's Stern School of Business, where he is working to launch the first-ever center on business and human rights at a business school. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Posner served from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the State Department. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization.
Posner is recognized as a leader and expert in advancing a rights-based approach to national security, challenging the practice of torture, combating discrimination, and refugee protection. He is a frequent public commentator on these issues, and has testified dozens of times before the U.S. Congress. As Assistant Secretary, Posner traveled extensively, representing the U.S. Government to foreign officials and representatives of civil society in countries of strategic importance to the United States, including China, Russia, Egypt, Burma, Bahrain, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, among many others.
Throughout his career, Posner has been a prominent voice in support of human rights protections in global business operations in the manufacturing supply chain, the extractives industry, and the information and communications technology sector. As a member of the White House Apparel Industry Partnership Task Force in the mid-'90s, he helped found the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization that brings together corporations, local leaders, universities, and NGOs to promote corporate accountability for working conditions in the apparel industry. He was a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at promoting free expression and privacy rights on the Internet, and has spoken widely on the issue of Internet freedom. Posner spearheaded the U.S. Government's efforts to enhance the effectiveness of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, which works to improve human rights around oil, gas, and mining operations.
Posner played a key role in proposing and campaigning for the first U.S. law providing for political asylum, which became part of the Refugee Act of 1980, as well as the Torture Victim Protection Act, which was adopted in 1992. In 1998, he led the Human Rights First delegation to the Rome conference at which the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was adopted.
Before joining Human Rights First, Posner was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago. He lectured at Yale Law School from 1981 to 1984, and again in 2009, when he taught with former Dean Harold Koh. He was a visiting lecturer at Columbia University Law School from 1984 to 2008. A member of the California Bar and the Illinois Bar, he received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) in 1975, and a B.A. with distinction and honors in History from the University of Michigan in 1972. Posner resides with his family in New York City.
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Michael Rafferty
Mike has undertaken research on work, labour markets, skills development, occupational health and safety, and financial aspects of working life, including mortgage stress, superannuation and retirement. He has also written on the shifting of life course risks from employers and the state to workers and households and the growing role of financial markets in managing those risks. Previously, he was MBA Program Coordinator at the University of Wollongong. Mike holds a PhD in economics and has taught at universities in Australia and Europe.
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Michael Rees
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Michael Rees is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Course Leader for the MA Sociology.
Michael studied for his undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of the West of England before pursuing a Masters degree in Methods of Social Research and a PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent. He has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent and the University of South Wales before becoming a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wolverhampton. He joined Nottingham Trent University in 2022 as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and course leader for the MA Sociology
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Michael Reid
Professor of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida
I am a professor and dean of the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida. I am also a fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS) and the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM). At present, I serve as consulting editor for Journal of Applied Physiology and sit on the editorial board of Antioxidants & Redox Signaling.
As an investigator, I have published over 120 scientific articles in the fields of biomechanics, motor control, muscle biology, and the mechanisms of fatigue. Our team is primarily recognized for my research on the redox mechanisms that limit performance in chronic disease and extreme environments. At present, we are part of a multisite research project to evaluate professional race car drivers during competition with the goal of improving performance and increasing driver safety. Relevant publications include: Reid MB and Lightfoot JT, Med Sci Sports Exercise 51: 2548-2562, 2019 and Reid, MB, Cells 11:899, 2022.
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Michael Richmond
Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Richmond teaches physics and astronomy courses at the Rochester Institute of Technology, runs the RIT Observatory, and studies variable celestial objects using optical telescopes. He often spends summers in Japan, working with the Tomo-e Gozen team at the University of Tokyo. Michael enjoys video games, programming, baseball, beer, and the novels of Hal Clement.
Education
Ph.D., Astronomy November 1992, University of California at Berkeley
Thesis: “The Supernova Rate in Starburst Galaxies”
Advisor: Alexei V. Filippenko
M.A., Astronomy May 1989, University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Astrophysics, Magna Cum Laude June 1986
Princeton University, Thesis: “An Application of Self-Consistent Field Theory to Close Binary Polytropes”
Advisor: Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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Michael Roberts
SEACAMS R&D Project Manager, Centre for Applied Marine Sciences, Bangor University
Born and raised on the Isle of Anglesey and after working as a general labourer in the civil engineering and building sector for fifteen years I graduated from Bangor University as a mature student in 2000 with a B.Sc. in Ocean Sciences. I completed my Ph.D. in 2006 and have been working in Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences (SOS) since 2004. I am currently R&D Project Manager at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences (CAMS) and have a background in palaeoenvironmental development (sea-level change) and marine geology. I currently specialise in seabed mapping and geoscience related research using multibeam sonar primarily associated with supporting the marine renewable energy sector in Wales.
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Michael Ross
Professor Emeritus of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Michael L. Ross is a graduate of Harvard University (PhD 1966). He has taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Vassar College and McMaster University, where he is now emeritus professor of English and Cultural Studies. His previous book publications include: Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice and Rome (Greenwood 1994), Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction (McGill-Queens UP 2006) and Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising (McGill-Queens UP 2015). His most recent book, Words in Collision: Multilingualism in English-Language Fiction, will be published by McGill-Queens University Press in April of 2023. He has also published numerous articles on writers such as Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Michael Rudloff
MD-Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University
Michael grew up in the historic city of Williamsburg, Virginia and first dabbled in research at James Madison University where he analyzed the structure and function of mutated proteins implicated in human disease. After earning a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Biochemistry from JMU, Michael moved to the busy D.C. suburbs where he dove into the world of cancer research and immunotherapy at the National Institutes of Health as a postbaccalaureate research fellow. Michael matriculated to the Medical Scientist Training Program at Vanderbilt and to the lab of Dr. Mary Philip. In the future, Michael hopes to work in clinic to treat patients with cancer and operate a research lab to learn more about how we can harness our immune system to treat disease.
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Michael Ryan
Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato
Michael's current research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic uncertainty.
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Michael S. Jaffee
Vice chair, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
Michael S. Jaffee, MD, is the Vice-Chair of Neurology at the University of Florida, where he joined the faculty in 2016. Prior to his current position, he was an associate professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, where he served as the inaugural clinical director of the Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute and director of the neurology sleep service. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1992 and completed a combined residency in neurology and psychiatry at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium in San Antonio in 1998. He later went on to complete a sleep medicine fellowship there in 2011.
Dr. Jaffee is board certified in neurology, psychiatry, sleep medicine and brain injury medicine. He has additional certifications in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, as well as neural repair and rehabilitation.
His 21-year Air Force career included wartime service as the chief of the medical staff for the largest U.S. military hospital in Iraq and service as the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General neurology consultant. He served as the U.S. Department of Defense liaison to two White House-appointed panels of the Defense Health Board, and as the national director of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, where he managed a network of 18 sites leading to the publication of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and paved the way for research in the deployed combat area. Dr. Jaffee helped develop seminal clinical practice guidelines and tools for the management of traumatic brain injury. He has represented the Department of Defense with congressional testimony. He has served as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Labor.
Dr. Jaffee retired from the Air Force in 2013 at the rank of colonel. Now at UF, he continues to serve as a national and federal subject matter expert and serves as chair of the Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program as part of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. He also is the senior neurologist serving on the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation national Brain Injury Medicine board examination committee.
Dr. Jaffee has dedicated a significant part of his career to developing innovative educational and research collaborations between the Department of Defense, federal agencies, academic institutions and other stakeholders, including the National Football League and the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Michael Sam
Associate Professor of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago
Dr Michael Sam is an Associate Professor and co-director of the NZ Centre for Sport Policy and Politics. His background is in recreation, having gained much of his teaching/research interests from working at both the municipal and provincial levels of government in Manitoba, Canada. Mike serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. He is also the President for the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), a charitable incorporated organisation comprising 300 members across 50 countries (https://www.issa1965.org).
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Michael Selgelid
Professor Michael Selgelid is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics therein, at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics and serves on the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières. Since 2014 he has served as an Advisor to the WHO Emergency Committee that led to Ebola being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. His main research focus is public health ethics—with emphasis on ethical issues associated with infectious disease. He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU Press. He is Co-Editor of Monash Bioethics Review and an Associate Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics. Michael earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University; and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.
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Michael Siebert
Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Mike Siebert is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and has recently published his book ‘Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to the Construction Industry’ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-michael-siebert-03a30116 ) where he suggests how a number of interventions could benefit the housing industry in particular in its transition to Net Zero. His research into the stark realities behind retrofitting our nation’s homes has led him to infrared fabric as the only viably scalable technical solution yet to be proposed.
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Michael Spoelma
PhD Student, UNSW Sydney
I am a PhD student and research officer at the University of New South Wales and the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, Australia. My research examines treatments for bipolar disorder, applied machine learning, and digital interventions for mental health disorders.
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Michael Starr
Associate Professor, Film & Screen Studies, University of Northampton
Michael Starr is associate professor in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Northampton. He principally writes and researches on science fiction cinema, television and literature, film philosophy, and cult media.
He is the author of Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered (McFarland, 2017), and co-editor of Re-entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Television Series (McFarland, 2021.)
He has also published extensively on also transmedia, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, time travel narratives, and various Whedonverses texts.
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Michael Traurig
PhD Researcher, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Michael is a quantitative ecologist that specialises in ecosystems and the benefits they contribute to people. His background is primarily in marine ecology but has also worked on alpine risk assessments and migratory bird conservation. Michael is currently completing a PhD linking ecosystem condition to human well-being.
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Michael Vandenbergh
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law Vanderbilt University Law School, Director, Climate Change Research Network Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program Michael Vandenbergh is a leading scholar in environmental and energy law whose research explores the relationship between formal legal regulation and informal social regulation of individual and corporate behavior. His work with Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network involves interdisciplinary teams that focus on the reduction of carbon emissions from the individual and household sector. His corporate work explores private environmental governance and the influence of social norms on firm behavior and the ways in which private contracting can enhance or undermine public governance. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Vandenbergh was a partner at a national law firm in Washington, D.C. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 1995. He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1987-88. In addition to directing Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network, Professor Vandenbergh serves as co-director of the law school’s Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. He was named a David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law in fall 2013. A recipient of the Hall-Hartman Teaching Award, he teaches courses in environmental law, energy, and property. Professor Vandenbergh has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and at Harvard Law School.
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Michael Wadsley
PhD student, Durham University
I am a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Durham University. My research investigates the reward-based mechanisms underlying the excessive and problematic use of social networking sites.
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Michael Waller
Senior Lecturer Biostatistics, The University of Queensland
Dr Michael Waller is a biostatistician. His current research focus is using linked data sources to assess dementia rates and risk factors. He has previous experience working on cancer screening, and military health studies.
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Michael Walls
Professor of Development Politics and Economy & DPU Director, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL
Michael is Professor of Development Politics and Economy and Director of UCL's Development Planning Unit (DPU). He has twelve years' experience in senior management in the private sector and lectures in 'market-led approaches to development' (a module titled 'Society and Market: Private Agency for Development') and was responsible for teaching development management at DPU ('Development in Practice').
He is actively involved in a number of groups, including the Anglo-Somali Society, Somaliland Focus (UK) and Kayd Somali Arts and Culture Ltd. He has worked in New Zealand and the UK and has also been involved in development work in Somalia/Puntland/Somaliland, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.
Research, consultancy and teaching interests lie in the related areas of development management and governance, including: state formation in developing countries; post-conflict reconstruction; state-led development and approaches to regulation of the market to promote equitable development; livelihoods in informal economies – especially African cities; frameworks for understanding and measuring development and wellbeing; and the ethical foundations for development intervention. Michael has established a particular focus on the Somali areas and Ethiopia within the Horn of Africa.
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Michael Weigold
Dr. Weigold’s research interests are consumer behavior, health campaigns and warning labels. He has conducted research in advertising and impression management, information seeking, and political communication.
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Michael White
Professor in History of Art, University of York
Michael White is a Professor in History of Art working chiefly on the interwar avant-gardes. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Theo van Doesburg and has a special interest in De Stijl and modernism in the Netherlands. He was consultant curator of the 2010 Tate Modern exhibition ‘Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World’, advised the Kunstmuseum Den Haag on the display of its permanent Mondrian and De Stijl collections, and was the external curator of the exhibition 'Mondrian and his Studios' at Tate Liverpool in 2014.
Michael is also the author of ‘Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War’ (Yale University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of ‘Virgin Microbe: Essays on Dada’ (Northwestern University Press, 2013). The dual interests he has in abstraction and Dada are informing his latest research projects.
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Michael Winding
Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute
I am a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. I generated and analysed the first synaptic wiring diagram, or connectome, of an entire insect brain. Using this brain map and linked experimental tools, my group aims to understand how brain-wide computations generate social behaviours and how these computations go awry after social isolation or in disease.
About me:
I am originally from northern Indiana in the US, where I received Bachelor’s Degrees in Biology and Studio Art at the University of Notre Dame. From there, I received a PhD in Cell Biology working with Vladimir Gelfand studying cytoskeleton rearrangement in neurons and oocytes at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. I worked as a postdoc studying how innate and learned valences are integrated in the Drosophila larva brain at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI in Ashburn, Virginia. Before my appointment at the Crick, I was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK, working with Marta Zlatic and Albert Cardona at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / Department of Zoology.
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Michael Wright
Chief Investigator - Looking Forward Aboriginal Mental Health Project, Curtin University
Dr Wright is a Yuat Nyoongar man from Western Australia. His mother’s and grandmother’s boodja (country) is just north of Perth in the Victoria Plains region. He has worked across the spectrum of health as a practitioner, policy officer and researcher, and has extensive experience in Aboriginal health and mental health. The Looking Forward Aboriginal Mental Health Project commenced in 2011 and is now an integral part of the Curtin School of Allied Health. The research has been impactful in driving change in culturally safe research practice within and across the School and University. Michael led the development of the Debakarn Koorliny Wangkiny Conditions for Engaging Framework, co-designed with Nyoongar Elders and service providers. The framework has been implemented in mental health and drug and alcohol services in the Perth area and offers a pathway for culturally-safe co-design practice with Aboriginal people.
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Michael Wysession
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Wysession, Ph.D., is Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. He is an expert on the Earth’s inner structure and has mapped various sections of the Earth and is most noted for his map of the Earth’s core-mantle boundary.
Professor Wysession's research in seismology has primarily involved the computer modeling and interpretation of seismic data for Earth structure, addressing questions of Earth composition and dynamics. Areas of focus have been core-mantle boundary region structure and dynamics, core structure, physical causes of mantle and crustal attenuation, causes of intraplate volcanism and seismicity, and the forensic identification of seismic sources such as nuclear tests and military operations. He is the first geologist to map the Earth’s core-mantle boundary, some 2,000 miles below our feet. His research has been supported by 22 NSF grants, as well as funding from the Packard, Kemper, Lilly, and Pew Foundations.
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Michael Zanardo
Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, Monash University
Michael Zanardo is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. Previously he was the inaugural Rothwell Resident in Architecture (2022-2023) in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. His PhD, 'Shaping Affordable Housing' investigated the history and architectural design of pre-World War II State workers' housing in Sydney. Michael is a practicing, registered architect and urban designer specialising in the design of housing, particularly public and affordable housing.
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Michael Allen Fox
Adjunct Professor of Humanities, University of New England
I taught philosophy from 1966-2005 at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, where I'm also a Professor Emeritus. My special interests are: 19th century European philosophy, existentialism, environmental philosophy, ethics and animals, philosophy of peace, and history of ideas. I've been an Adjunct Professor at the University of New England, Australia, since 2004. I've published 7 books and more then 70 articles on a variety of subjects. My latest book is Fate and Life: Who's Really in Charge? (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024).
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Michael B. Bishku
Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and African History, Augusta University
Michael B. Bishku is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern and African history at Augusta University in the state of Georgia in the United States. He is the former president of both the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and the Association of Global South Studies and was a Schusterman fellow in Israel studies at Brandeis University.
In the past, he has taught at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey, Washington & Lee University, the University of North Florida and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is currently an associate editor of the Oxford Bibliographies Online for Islamic Studies and specializes in the interregional relations of middle power countries and minorities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with particular interest in Israel and Turkey. He has published in such journals as Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Policy, the Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Mediterranean Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Sociology of Islam, Israel Studies, Israel Affairs, Studies in Zionism, Turkish Review, and the Maghreb Review among others.
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Michael C. Davis
Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University
Prof. Michael C. Davis is the Professor of Law and International Affairs at O. P. Jindal Global University, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and a Senior Research Scholar at both the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University and the US Asia Law Institute at NYU. He was the 2018-2019 Residential Fellow at the Wilson Center and the 2016-2017 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the US National Endowment for Democracy. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong for many years until late 2016.
He has held a number of distinguished visiting appointments, including J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (2005-6), the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University (2004-5) and the Frederick K. Cox Human Rights Professorship at Case Western Reserve University (2000), as well as the Schell Senior Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School (1994-5).
His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and politics. His books include Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Columbia University Press, author, 2020), International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (M. E. Sharp, editor, 2004), Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press, editor, 1995) Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (St. Martin’s Press, author,1990).
As a public intellectual he has contributed commentary to a variety of international media, including Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review and the South China Morning Post, as well as such broadcast media as CNN, the BBC, and NPR. Amnesty International and the Hong Kong FCC awarded him a 2014 Human Rights Press Award for a series of commentary published in the South China Morning. For highlights of his various interest and activities see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Davis
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Michael E. Fossum
Vice President, Texas A&M University
Michael E. Fossum '80 currently serves as a Vice President of Texas A&M University, the Chief Operating Officer of the Galveston Campus, and the Superintendent of the Texas A&M Maritime Academy. Fossum joined Texas A&M following his retirement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – Johnson Space Center in 2017.
Fossum is a veteran of three space flights with more than 194 days in space and more than 48 hours in seven spacewalks during his 19 years as an astronaut. During his last mission in 2011, Fossum served as the Commander of the International Space Station. He has logged over 2,000 hours in 35 different aircraft throughout the course of his career. Fossum earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force in 1980. He is also a graduate of the US Air Force Test Pilot School and has earned Master of Science degrees in Systems Engineering and Physical Science/Space Science.
Fossum was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in McAllen, Texas. He is married to his Aggie sweetheart, the former Melanie J. London '80. They have four children and seven grandchildren. He enjoys family and outdoor activities. Fossum has been a lifelong supporter and volunteer in the Scouting program.
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