Associate Professor, SUNY Old Westbury
Jacob Heller is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at SUNY Old Westbury. In 2008 he published The Vaccine Narrative with Vanderbilt University Press, where he looked at Rubella as one of four cases in American medical history. He is currently continuing his research on rumors and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS to include non-American populations, early findings of which were published in the Journal of American Public Health in January 2015.
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Professor of Arab studies, University of Oslo
I do research on language, ideology, culture and society in the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Geographically, my research focuses on Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Tunisia. My publications include books on the political role of journalism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, independent Arab comics, and the rhetoric of Islamist activists in the Middle East.
Currently, I serve as Head of Research at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo.
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PhD candidate, Oceanography, University of British Columbia
I am a marine scientist and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. My research investigates Chinook salmon energy density and their marine life history.
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Washington State University
Jacob S. Lewis (PhD, University of Maryland) is an assistant professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. His research centres on African politics and focuses on issues of corruption, conflict, and political psychology. He also studies issues of antisemitism in a comparative perspective, focusing on mechanisms of blame and the role of conspiracy theories and populism. His work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Political Geography, Social Movement Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics, Nations and Nationalism, and Political Studies Review. His work has been supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Anti-Defamation League, and more.
Professor Lewis currently oversees two large post-conflict peacebuilding projects in Zimbabwe and Ghana and maintains an active connection with the world of public policy and international development. One of his core goals is to help prepare undergraduate and graduate students for meaningful and fulfilling careers in applied politics and policy, and he integrates this into his teaching and broader pedagogy. Before beginning his life as an academic, he managed democratisation and post-conflict stabilisation programmes across Africa as well as in Afghanistan. He loves alpine skiing, coffee, and cats.
Research Interests
African politics, social movements, conflict processes, political psychology, social trust, antisemitism, conspiracy theories.
Recent publications
“Antisemitic Hate Crime Exposure and Foreign Policy Preferences.” (2023) Contemporary Jewry. With Ayal Feinberg.
“Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa.” (2023) Journal of Peace Research. With Brandon Ives
“What determines support for separatism? Evidence from Biafra, Nigeria.” (2022) Nations and Nationalism.
“Proximate exposure to conflict and the spatiotemporal correlates of social trust in Africa.” (2022) Political Psychology. With Sedef Topal.
“Repression and bystander mobilization in Africa” (2022) Social Movement Studies.
“Territorial origins of center-seeking and self-determination claims in Africa.” (2021) Political Geography, 94. With Mike Widmeier.
“Signals, strongholds, and support: political party protests in South Africa.” (2021) Politics, 41(2): 189-206.
“Corruption Perceptions and Contentious Politics in Africa: How Different Types of Corruption Have Shaped Africa’s Third Wave of Protest.” (2021) Political Studies Review, 19(2): 227-244. WINNER: Political Studies Review’s best article of 2021.
“From Rallies to Riots: Why Some Protests Become Violent.” (2020) Journal of Conflict Resolution, 64(5), 958–986. With Brandon Ives.
“The role of trust in mobilization and nonviolent discipline: evidence from civil resistance in Africa”. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. (2021) Available online: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/how-social-trust-shapes-civil-resistance-lessons-from-africa/
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PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide
My current ecological research focuses on the trade of plants facilitated by the internet. This trade can impact biosecurity by introducing invasive plants or plant pathogens. It can also impact threatened species through plant poaching networks.
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Research Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). In 2018 he was a visiting scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression Center. He has commented extensively on free speech and human rights in outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. Jacob has published in academic and peer-reviewed journals, including Human Rights Quarterly, Policy Review, and Amnesty International’s Strategic Studies. He is the producer and narrator of the podcast “Clear and Present” Danger: A History of Free Speech and the critically acclaimed book “Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media” published by Basic Books in 2022. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work on free speech and human rights.
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Professor of Geology, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jacob Napieralski is a Professor of Geology at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. He is currently the Director of the Master of Science in Environmental Science and Director of the Environmental Interpretive Center. His expertise focuses on understanding the impact of past and future environmental change on people.
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Associate Dean Indigenous College of Arts, Law, and Education; Senior Lecturer - Indigenous Fellow, Social Work, University of Tasmania
Jacob is a proud Worimi man trained as a mixed methods Sociologist and Social Work academic. As the Associate Dean Indigenous for the College of Arts, Law and Education (CALE), Jacob aims to empower Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff and students to contribute to a culture of Indigenous excellence. Jacob's primary research areas are Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous families growing strong. He is also a qualified Social Worker and Aboriginal Health Worker.
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Research Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
Jacob is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the ethics of caring and digital technologies in later life with the Institute for Design Informatics and the Advanced Care Research Centre. As a design researcher with a background in industrial and interaction design, Jacob is a cross-disciplinary researcher interested in collaborations that engage with socially complex contexts from ageing to health and safety. Drawing on participatory and speculative modes of design, he partners with local organisations and communities to deliver insights and impact.
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Associate Professor, College of Charleston
Historian of pandemics and public health. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Editor of The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease, particularly in 19th and early-20th century Britain and the former British colonies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at the college in 2011. He is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, published by the University of Rochester Press in the Studies In Medical History series.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University
I am a neuroscientist and academic at Bond University in Australia. I primarily research human motor control, namely how the brain and spinal cord control muscles.
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Research Assistant, Michigan State University
I am currently a master's student and research assistant in the Department of Community Sustainability. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the social, temporal, and spatial dimensions of renewable energy technology. My current research focuses on local community involvement and perceptions of solar energy projects and my master’s thesis work specifically is focused on elucidating urban resident preferences and perceptions of large-scale solar projects developed on urban brownfields and in urban contexts. Outside of work I enjoy napping with my cats, hiking with my partner, and complaining about suburban sprawl.
I have a BA in Political Science and BSc in Microbiology from Miami University. Before joining the CSUS Department in the fall of 2022 I was a sales representative at ThermoFisher Scientific.
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Assistant Professor of Management, Texas State University
Dr. Jacob A. Waddingham is an Assistant Professor of Management in the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. He earned a PhD in Management from Auburn University, an MBA from Iowa State University, and BS degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Texas at Tyler. His research explores how organizations and entrepreneurs manage stakeholder perceptions, and stakeholder attitudes and behaviors. Jacob’s research has been published in multiple outlets, including Journal of Management and Journal of International Business Studies.
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Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
I am a Lecturer in Religious Studies responsible for UT’s Biblical Hebrew program. I also teach the Hebrew Bible in English, Introduction to Judaism, and Survey of Early Rabbinic Literature. For the History Department I have taught Early Jewish History (Biblical through Early Medieval Period).
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Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
As a plant evolutionary biologist, I apply my research and education experience to understand how plant traits are constructed, how they function, and how they have evolved across geologic time. The techniques I use to ask and answer these fundamental questions integrate anatomy, physiology, and phylogenetics, using both large-scale analyses across thousands of species and small-scale analyses narrowing in on key organisms.
I am also a science communicator working closely with a fellow botanist to democratize the study of plant biology through the production of academically rigorous (yet accessible) videos free to the public on social media. Check us out @letsbotanize.
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Profesor Interino en el Área de Optometría (OD, MSc, PhD), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Profesor Interino e Investigador en el Área de Optometría. Impartiendo docencia en materias del Grado en Óptica y Optometría y Máster en Optometría de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Doctor en Medicina Molecular por la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela desde 2023, con más de 15 publicaciones en revistas científicas indexadas a JCR.
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
Dr Allen's research is about the development of antisocial behaviour and mental health problems from childhood to young adulthood. Her PhD in developmental psychology examined the risk posed by school bullying for physical aggression and violence in young adulthood, with a particular focus on the role of alcohol use in exacerbating this relationship.
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Jacqueline is currently a lecturer in Animal Science at Nottingham Trent University, with a passion for domestic species, notably dogs and horses. Her academic and research interests are broad ranging, from the molecular biology of parasitic nematodes to the genetic basis of cryptobiosis and jump kinematics in agility dogs. Jacqueline is very much an academic practitioner and recognises the value of science that has direct application and potential to improve animal health and welfare.
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Lecturer of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Jacqueline Dalziell is a Lecturer in the School of the History and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Sydney. Previously, she held postdoctoral positions at UNSW (Environmental Humanities) and Macquarie University (Philosophy) before joining the University of Sydney in 2023. Jacqueline’s scholarship merges contemporary critical theory (STS, feminist) with perspectives from classical social theory (philosophy, psychoanalysis). Her research has been published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies and the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.
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Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, Media and American Studies, University of East Anglia
As an undergraduate Dr Fear-Segal studied at the University of East Anglia and as a postgraduate at University College London and Harvard University.
She spent two separate years as a visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris teaching American Civilization, and also a brief stint as a script writer for the BBC World Service. She spent the academic year, 1999-2000, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania , on an academic teaching exchange with Professor Amy Farrell. The nineteenth and early twentieth century have been my main focus, but land disputes, education, missionary activity, and issues of identity interest me in all periods.
Her areas of expertise include American Indian/Native American affairs in the USA, with a specialism in modern events and 19th-century Indian boarding schools and education; American West; immigration and the process of Americanisation; race and racism in the USA; visual culture, in particular photography.
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PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
Jacqueline has recently completed her PhD exploring the response to child abuse and neglect in primary care settings. Currently Jacqueline is working with in the area of child sexual abuse on projects such as the Stop It Now! Australia Program Evaluation and the AVA Project, which aims to explore the experiences and services needs of survivors of harmful sexual behaviour.
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Associate Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia University
Jacqueline Klopp is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the University of Nairobi Institute for Development Studies, Previously, she taught the politics of development at the School of International and Public Affairs for many years. A political scientist by training, her work focuses on the political processes around land-use, transportation, violence, displacement and planning in African cities. Klopp is the author of articles for Africa Today, African Studies Review, African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Politics, Forced Migration Review, Urban Forum, World Policy Review among others.
Recently, she has been experimenting with creative urban mapping projects for both analysis and advocacy and is a founding member of the DigitalMatatus consortium which has produced the first open transit data and public transit map for Nairobi's quasi-formal "matatu" transit system. She helped start the blogs CairofromBelow and nairobiplanninginnovations.com to provide more grounded and open urban information to citizens. She is also a founder and Board member of the Internal Displacement Policy and Advocacy Center (IDPAC) based in Nakuru, Kenya. She is currently writing a book on the politics of planning in Nairobi.
Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.
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Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology
Jacqueline Meredith is a Lecturer at Swinburne Law School. She is also a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at Melbourne Law School.
Her teaching and research interests lie primarily in the fields of employment law, labour law, and tort law.
Jacqueline has published in top-ranked academic journals in the areas of labour law and medical law and ethics, and has co-authored a book on the intersection of law and technology.
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Professor in Visual Arts, La Trobe University
Jacqueline Millner is an art theorist specialising in contemporary art and its intersections with social, political and cultural change. Coming from an interdisciplinary background that includes law, political science and visual arts, Jacqueline draws on social history of art and feminist perspectives as well as on political theory and aesthetics to re-think the link between art and broader systems of power. Her interest is also in exploring how contemporary art and creative practices can model alternative values that are urgently needed to address the excesses of neoliberalism.
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Research Associate, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
I hold a Master of Science in International Health from Charite Universitaats Medizin in Berlin, University College London, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Currently, I am a graduate student finalizing a Master of Arts Program in Children, Youths, Family and Community Studies at the School of Child and Youth Care. I coordinate the field work on a project on behalf of my supervisor, a Professor at UVic, titled Centering Marginal Voices. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and it aims to build research and advocacy capacity of young mothers to claim their sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR).
I am a Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) professional with over 15 years of experience working with civil society in Uganda. I have proficiency in rights-based programming, grants management, capacity building, and research. I am a national master trainer and researcher on SRHR.
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Scientific Officer in Ornithology, Australian Museum, and ARC DECRA Fellow, Flinders University
I am an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at Flinders University and a Scientific Officer in Ornithology at the Australian Museum. My research interests include the systematics, morphology, and evolution of fossil and modern birds, especially Australian songbirds. I am interested in using a combination of fossils, morphology, and DNA to gain a better understanding of the evolutionary history of birds, both living and extinct.
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Co-Director of the ESRC Centre on Digital Futures at Work, University of Sussex
I am the Principal Investigator and Co-Director for the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (2020-2024), together with Professor Mark Stuart.
I joined the University of Sussex Business School in 2017 as Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management and I am the UK lead on the EU Horizon 2020 EUROSHIP project on social protection in Europe (2020-23).
Background
After completing my doctorate at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on an Anglo-French comparison of employment practices in the banking sector, I worked for ten years at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany. I have also held teaching and research posts at Sciences Politiques in Paris, and at London, Manchester and Brighton Universities in the UK. In 2000, I was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and appointed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2019.
The ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission, the European Science Foundation and Santander Bank have funded my research. This includes coordinating a EU FP7 funded large-scale research project STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (www.style-research.eu) (2014-17) and being the UK lead on the EU Horizon 2020 project NEGOTIATE on Overcoming early job-insecurity in Europe (www.negotiate-research.eu) (2015-18).
Currently, I am on the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Sozialreform (De Gruyter) University of Bremen, Germany. I have provided consultation services to HM Treasury, Full Employment Team and the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Unit; I am an Evaluation Rapporteur for the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme. Formerly, I have acted as an advisor to the ILO Work4Youth programme funded by The MasterCard Foundation; and twice as an evaluator for the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (€151 million investment).
My most recent research focuses on
the digital transformation of work
international comparisons in political economy
gender and ethnic labour market transitions across the life cycle for youth, parents and older workers.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6223-154X
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline_Oreilly
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Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
I am a Professor in the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, and Lead of the Intervention Network Action Team for the Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network (CanFASD). As a researcher and Psychologist my research focus includes identification and evaluation of interventions to support healthy outcomes for structurally marginalized populations.
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Research Associate, School of Nursing, Western University
Completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at University of Guelph. Currently Research Associate in the School of Nursing at Western University, with a focus on gender-based violence.
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Lecturer in Digital Animation, University of Bristol
Dr. Jacqueline Ristola is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Her research areas include animation/anime studies, media industry studies, and queer representation. Her work is published in Kinephanos, Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has chapter in edited collection on television series Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman.
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Karajarri Traditional Owner, Cultural Advisor, Karajarri Land Trust Association, Indigenous Knowledge
I am a Karajarri Traditional Owner, with years of experience looking after desert and sea country. I'm a Cultural Advisor, working alongside my elders.
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PhD Candidate (Ecology), University of Otago
I am particularly interested in the role of urban green spaces in fostering habitat for native species and cultivating a sense of place for urban residents. My research is centred around two main areas: developing general biodiversity assessment tools and investigating invertebrate colonisation and community composition within urban green installations.
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Professor & Director, Canadian Research Centre on Inclusive Education, Western University
Dr. Jacqueline Specht is a professor and the director of the Canadian Research Centre on Inclusive Education at the University of Western Ontario. The centre aims to empower educators with the knowledge they need to be effective with all students in the K-12 schooling system. Dr. Specht’s research expertise is located in the area inclusive education with a focus on educators, leaders, and parents and their roles in developing effective schools for all students. She has worked with schools nationally and internationally to support their transition to inclusive education. Her recent book “Inclusion of Learners with Exceptionalities in Canadian Schools” is a textbook that is used in initial teacher education programs across Canada.
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
Jacqueline Klopp is an Research Scholar and Director at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at teh Climate School at Columbia University, Previously, she taught the politics of development at the School of International and Public Affairs for many years. A political scientist by training, her work focuses on the political processes around land-use, transportation, violence, displacement and planning in African cities. Klopp is the author of articles for Africa Today, African Studies Review, African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Politics, Forced Migration Review, Urban Forum, World Policy Review among others.
Recently, she has been experimenting with creative urban mapping projects for both analysis and advocacy and is a founding member of the DigitalMatatus consortium which has produced the first open transit data and public transit map for Nairobi's quasi-formal "matatu" transit system. She helped start the blogs CairofromBelow and nairobiplanninginnovations.com to provide more grounded and open urban information to citizens. She is also a founder and Board member of the Internal Displacement Policy and Advocacy Center (IDPAC) based in Nakuru, Kenya. She is currently writing a book on the politics of planning in Nairobi.
Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.
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