Director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona
Dr. Graizbord is S. D. Curson Professor of Judaic Studies. A historian of early modern Jews, Dr. Graizbord's research focuses on the Western Sephardi Diaspora of the seventeenth century. In particular, Dr. Graizbord's writing approaches questions of religious, social, and political identity as these questions shaped the lives of so-called "New Christians" or "conversos" from the Iberian Peninsula who became Jews in exile. He has also written about Judeophobia and the culture of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions; marginality and dissidence in Jewish and Ibero-Catholic societies of the seventeenth century; ethnicity and religion among Sephardim from medieval times to the 1700s; and converso trading networks in the Atlantic. More recently he has published on Jewish ethnic identity and Zionism among American Jews. His forthcoming book, an anthology, is entitlted _Early Modern Jewish Civilization: Unity and DIversity in a Diasporic Society_ (Routledge).
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Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, Indiana University
I am interested in a wide range of South Asian religious traditions and concentrate on the medieval and modern movements of northern India. Much of my work has focused on the culture of Braj, an active Krishna pilgrimage site known for its lively temple festivals, performative traditions, and literary creations.
More recently I have shifted my research interests to include the ancient city of Banaras, a pilgrimage center and temple town located on the bank of the Ganges River. My approach combines both textual research and anthropological fieldwork. Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Rāgānugā Bhakti Sādhana (Oxford University Press, 1988) is an investigation of religious reality construction based on a close examination of a meditation technique devised by the theoreticians of Braj. I have published a book on the circular pilgrimage around Braj, entitled Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna (Oxford, 1994). This book contemplates the complexities of circular wanderings and different strategies for dealing with the tumultuous nature of desire as it takes the reader on a spatial and mythological journey.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
I am interested in understanding why individuals behave in the way they do and the ultimate fitness consequences and proximate mechanisms of those behaviours. I am keen on exploring the causes that generate individual variation in behavioural traits in the animal kingdom, regardless of the target species. Further, I also have a deep interest in exploring how individuals adapt to the fluctuating environmental conditions and the fitness consequences of the different life-history strategies present under those variable conditions.
After being a PhD student at the National Natural History Museum (MNCN) in Madrid studying kestrel colouration, I moved to Montpellier to continue my research on the evolutionary dynamics of coloration focusing on blue tits and on the Paridae family as a postdoctoral researcher. Currently, I am a PDRA at the Edward Grey Institute (University of Oxford), where I focus on analysing great tit phenological responses to climate change.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr Reynolds is a sociologist interested in waste, plastics and food, and in how these are shaped by care and processes of politicisation, particularly in relation to sustainability. His PhD thesis in Human Geography (Monash University, Melbourne) investigated the experiences, practices and perspectives of people who avoid using plastic materials in their households in Australia. His MA in Sociology (Otago University, Aotearoa/New Zealand) investigated expert perceptions of food insecurity in Aotearoa/New Zealand and examined food insecurity in this food-rich country in relation to neoliberalism. He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about contemporary food and waste issues.
His current research at ARI (National University of Singapore) investigates the household consumption and disposal of plastic materials, and the social, historical and digital practices that shape women’s household management of plastic waste in Asia and Australia.
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Professor of Sociology, Education and Demography, Penn State
Dr. David P. Baker is Professor Sociology, Education, and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University, and a Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education, The Brookings Institute, Washington DC. His research focuses on the impact of education on individuals and societies, economies, and science; international comparisons of school organization; academic outcomes, and educational policy. His most recent books are The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University Press, which won the American Education Research Association- Outstanding Book of the Year, 2015; Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations and Knowledge Production. Stanford University Press 2024 (w/ J. Powell).
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Arizona State University
David Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Arizona State University, and a long-time observer of Arizona politics, past and present. Among his several books on the subject is Arizona Politics and Government: The Quest for Autonomy, Democracy, and Development (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, second edition, 2024).
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Professor of Plant Eco-physiology, Western Sydney University
Professor David Ellsworth is Professor of Plant Eco-physiology at Western Sydney University. He was educated at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, and has held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of Michigan, and Western Sydney University. He leads a cutting-edge team of scientists who seek to understand how plants perform key biotic functions in relation to the environment they live in. He has made distinguished contributions in the areas of tree physiological ecology and effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on plant photosynthesis for over 20 years, and he is the scientific lead for the Eucalyptus free-air CO2 Enrichment experiment ('EucFACE'). Ellsworth has published extensively in the scientific literature about the effects of climate change and high CO2 on forest trees. He has interests in plant responses to climate change including how plants respond to urban stresses such as heat and drought. He has worked on tree photosynthesis for native and planted trees on five continents, though he prefers working on our native Australian flora. David ranks among the most highly-cited scientists in the world in the area of Ecology and the Environment.
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Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
David Samuel Johnson, Ph.D., is a marine ecologist who studies how global changes (sea-level rise, climate change, ocean warming, nutrient enrichment, climate migrants) affect coastal ecosystems. He is interested in how ecosystems will be altered as viewed through the lens of animal and plant responses to these global changes. For instance, how does the spread of climate migrants, species the expand or shift their distributions due to climate change, affect the ecosystems they move into? He uses field observations coupled with field and laboratory experiments to answer these questions. He is an expert in marine invertebrates, especially worms, crustaceans, and bivalves.
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Associate Professor of English, Trinity College
Dr. David Sterling Brown—a Shakespeare and critical race studies scholar—is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College (Connecticut). And he is the author of Shakespeare's White Others (Cambridge University press, 2023). Learn more at: www.DavidSterlingBrown.com
He was a 2022-2023 Sacred Heart University Shakespeare Scholar in Residence. His antiracist research, which centers on pedagogy and on how racial ideologies circulate in and beyond the early modern period, is published or forthcoming in numerous peer-reviewed and public venues such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Literature Compass, Radical Teacher, Shakespeare Studies, Hamlet: The State of Play, White People in Shakespeare, Public Books and Los Angeles Review of Books. His forthcoming book projects, both under contract with Cambridge University Press, examine how whiteness operates in Shakespearean drama. Through his Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship, Dr. Brown had a 2021-2022 residency with The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine; he is also the dramaturg for Keith Hamilton Cobb's Untitled Othello Project. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and an engaged academic citizen, Brown sits on the editorial boards of Shakespeare Bulletin and Shakespeare Survey; and he is an executive board member of the Race Before Race conference series and a member of the American Shakespeare Center Board of Trustees.
A passionate and innovative pedagogue, Dr. Brown pushes his students to pursue the ideas that intrigue them most. He trains students to close read texts and he encourages them to take intellectual risks. By discussing critical issues such as power, class, sexuality, gender and race in the classroom, he enables his students to identify ways in which the past intrudes into and informs the present. He first experimented with this pedagogical approach while serving as Trinity's 2013 Ann Plato Predoctroal Fellow in English. During the fellowship, he developed his signature course, "(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line," which combines the study of English Renaissance drama and African-American literature.
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Chair professor, strategic management and management of innovation, PSB Paris School of Business
As a researcher, I specialize in strategic management, with a special focus in the management of technology and of innovation. I have also a specific interest in the management of complex systems, and in innovative business models.
I have produced more than 25 papers in academic journals, and several books.
My current academic position is with Paris School of Business, where I co-head the newPIC chair with Valerie Merindol
After serving the innovation research community for several years as SIG chair in the European academy of Management (EURAM), I am now EURAM's Vice president in charge of the Dialogue with Practitioners.
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Professor, California State University, Sacramento
David Zeanah is Professor of Anthropology at Sacramento State, where he has taught since 1999. He is trained as a prehistoric archaeologist, with geographic expertise in the Great Basin region of the United States, but has broad interests in evolutionary theory, hunter-gatherer organization and subsistence, ethnoarchaeology, and the transition to agriculture. He has been a member of three international, collaborative research projects.
Martu Ecological Anthropology project- a long-term ethnographic and ecological collaboration with the Martu people of Western Australia on the social relationships, land use and resource values of a contemporary hunter-gatherer economy.
Barrow Island Archaeological Project- archaeological investigations of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) occupation and hunter-gatherer adaptations in Western Australia.
Grass Valley Paleoindian Archaeological Project survey and investigation of Late Pleistocene sites in Grass Valley Nevada,
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Professor, Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia
My research topics include discrete fracture network modelling, advanced numerical modelling of block cave mining, mechanical behaviour of hard rock pillars, slope stability analysis, and synthetic rock mass modelling applications. I am also researching Engineering Philosophy and Behavioural Rock Engineering, which studies cognitive biases’ role in rock engineering design, emphasizing the applications of machine learning to empirically derived concepts and inductive design.
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Post-Doc, Ghent University
Dawid Walentek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Institute of International and European Studies. His work focuses on conflict and cooperation in international relations, with a particular focus on economic sanctions. In his current project, Dawid studies the micro-dynamics of sanctions and investigates the relation between individual preferences and economic coercion. Dawid’s work appeared in journals such as West European Politics, International Interactions and Journal of European Public Policy.
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
I am a social anthropologist with ethnographic specialization in the Middle East. I have studied forced settlement of mobile herding societies - Bedouin - in Syria,Lebnaon and Jordan as well as Oman. And protracted forced migration among Palestinian youth in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan , West Bank and Gaza, as well as among Sahrawi refugee youth in Algeria and Afghan refugee youth in Iran.
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Part-time lecturer, author, creative facilitator and medical doctor, University of Cape Town
I trained as a medical doctor (M.B.ChB), and work as a locum in a GP practice. As an award-winning author and creative facilitator, am a practitioner in the field of medical humanities. I am a founder member of the Life Righting Collective, teaching creative writing to individuals and groups, including as a guest lecturer in the Commerce and Health Sciences faculties at the University of Cape Town.
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Senior Vice President of Enrollment Management, Drexel University
As the Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management at Drexel University, I lead the strategic planning and implementation of all aspects of student enrollment, from recruitment and admission to support retention and graduation. I have over 25 years of experience in the higher education industry and hold an Ed.D in Educational Leadership and Administration from Lindenwood University.
My core competencies include program evaluation, student access/enrollment, crisis management, and tuition revenue maximization. I have a proven track record of improving enrollment metrics and graduation rates, as well as restructuring financial aid and enhancing student life-cycle. I am an innovator with creativity, public policy, social justice, and data-driven focus, who is a skilled storyteller and an accomplished public speaker, coach, leader, and mentor. My mission is to create a diverse, inclusive, and accessible learning environment for all students and to foster their academic success and personal growth.
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Senior Lecturer of Exercise Physiology, University of Botswana
Dr Dawn Tladi, Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, department of Sport Science. PhD, Movement Science (Exercise Physiology) from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in exercise science. Research interest: the use of physical activity and exercise interventions as a modality for disease prevention and promotion of healthy living. She has done research in the area of epidemiology of lifestyle diseases and the effects of exercise particularly, the metabolic syndrome among Batswana adults. She is currently involved in physical activity research in various populations and for various purposes in communities. Has done research on the effects of long term HIV/AIDS treatment on cognition, nutrition and physical fitness among adolescents in Botswana. She is currently leading a survey on the physical activity, dietary intake and physical fitness of school going age children in Botswana. With the event of COVID - 19, which brought to a stop of all the physical data collection, she embarked on an online COVID - 19 survey determining the impact of the lockdowns on physical activity, wellness and mental health of Batswana adults. She has quite recently brought down the physical activity research to early childhood in collaboration with the Sunrise international study. She has expertise in the field of exercise testing in general, be it for general fitness, high sports performance or research purposes. She is also an advocate for provision of physical education to all school going age children. She is currently the Botswana report card leader for the Global Matrix 4.0.
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Associate Professor of Exercise Science, University of Tennessee
Dr. Dawn Coe's research focuses primarily on pediatric exercise physiology. Coe’s research agenda includes physical activity assessment in youth, physical activity levels and behaviors in outdoor settings, and the impact of physical activity and physical fitness on cognition and academic success in youth.
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Science Lead | Data Analyst, CSIRO
Dax is a data analyst and Science Lead in the Science Decision Support team at the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). He works to make it easier for people to use ALA data for robust and transparent science. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and social psychology from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the editor of ALA Labs: https://labs.ala.org.au/
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Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
Dayna Cunningham is the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. The only university-wide college of its kind, Tisch College studies and promotes the civic and political engagement of young people at Tufts University, in our communities, and in our democracy.
Dean Cunningham joined Tisch College in 2021 and has devoted her career to promoting civic participation, building community partnerships, and advocating for underrepresented communities.
Before leading Tisch College, Dean Cunningham was the founder of Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At CoLab, she built large-scale, multi-sector development collaborations that combined sustainability, wellness, and democratic control of economies in marginalized communities. Promoting inclusive economic development that is environmentally sustainable, socially just, and deeply democratic, CoLab applies expertise from disciplines and sectors including urban planning, civil rights advocacy, business, and community and labor organizing, among others.
A civic rights lawyer by training, Dean Cunningham spent several years with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, litigating cases in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other states in the South. She has also served as associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation and program director of the ELIAS Project at MIT, which was a collaboration of government, businesses, and NGOs to create initiatives that supported economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Dean Cunningham earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, a JD from New York University School of Law, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Adjunct professor, Department of Family Medicine & Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley is a Registered Clinical Psychologist in BC, AB, ON and NS. She worked for almost 15 years in multidisciplinary teams on medical, surgical and cancer care hospital units providing assessment, therapy and consultation for patients with chronic and life-threatening health conditions. She also conducts research as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, with a cross appointment in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Dalhousie University and an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Saint Mary’s University. She has an active research program on behavior change, obesity, chronic disease, professional resiliency and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Lee-Baggley has over 45 peer-reviewed publications and over 130 scholarly presentations. She is the director of Dr. Lee-Baggley and Associates, which provides evidence-based workplace wellness solutions.
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1851 Research Fellow, University of Bristol & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester, University of Manchester
Dr Dean Lomax is an internationally recognised, multi-award-winning palaeontologist, author and presenter. He travels across the world excavating and researching dinosaurs and other ancient animals, discovering and naming new species and regularly appears on TV as an expert and presenter, notably co-hosting the primetime TV series Dinosaur Britain. He is the author of multiple books and many academic papers, is a leading authority on ichthyosaurs, and won a gold medal for science communication at the Houses of Parliament. Dean earned his PhD at The University of Manchester where he is currently an Honorary Research Fellow and is also an 1851 Research Fellow at The University of Bristol. — In 2021, he led the excavation of the 'Rutland Sea Dragon', the most complete skeleton of a large prehistoric reptile ever found in the UK. Watch his TED talk about this sensational discovery.
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Senior Research Fellow, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Dr Dean Picone is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Dean holds a NHMRC Emerging Leader Level 1 Fellowship (2023-7) and previously held a National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2). Dean is also an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania, and Chair of the New Investigator Committee of the International Society of Hypertension. Dean's research visionis to improve cardiovascular health by improving awareness, detection and management of high blood pressure using innovative, accurate and consumer accepted measurement methods.
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Associate Professor of Ethics, Director of UNSW Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network (MERLIN), UNSW Sydney
I am a military ethicist with a philosophical background. I have been working in the field as a full-time academic for over 20 years.
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Indigenous Research Officer, The University of Queensland
Deanna Stuart-Butler is a descendant of the Arabana people of the ‘Pantu Parnda’ (Lake Eyre) Region of South Australia. She leads the Indigenous work of the NHMRC Stillbirth CRE and associated programs such as the Safer Baby Bundle, chairs the Stillbirth Indigenous Advisory Group and is a member of a number of other stillbirth committees to increase awareness and broaden knowledge of Aboriginal culture, priorities, and needs. She shares her knowledge on how to encourage Indigenous women to seek and participate in antenatal care, and how to incorporate Aboriginal culture into health service delivery, associated with connection to land, health and wellbeing, life and sorry business. She is leading and co-leading several research projects investigating voices of Indigenous families relating to stillbirth, stillbirth research priorities for Indigenous women and extensive adaptation of Stillbirth CRE masterclasses for Indigenous healthcare personnel. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Community and Families Research Alliance, a group instigated by SAHMRI Women and Kids to translate community priorities into research and to integrate research and policy. She was the first graduate of the South Australia Aboriginal Maternal Infant Care qualification in 2010, going on to become the manager of the Aboriginal Family Birthing Program at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide. She is particularly passionate about translating research into operational practices within mainstream maternity models to ensure better health and wellbeing for Indigenous babies, women, and their families.
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Associate Professor of Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology
I'm an Associate Professor in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.
I received my PhD from the University of Texas in 2010. My PhD advisor was John Kormendy. My postdoc mentors were Alberto Bolatto and Karl Glazebrook.
I have been a CARMA Research Fellow, Swinburne Director’s Research Fellow and an Australian Future Fellow. I also served as the Deputy Director for the Centre for Astrophysics at Swinburne.
I enjoy studying galaxies with extremely high star formation rates. I use these galaxies to test theories of star formation and study the conditions in galaxies that are very common in galaxies 10 billion years ago, when most stars in the Universe formed. I am the lead investigator for the DYNAMO and the DUVET observational programs.
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Senior Olkola woman and the CEO of the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Olkola Traditional Owner and proud Kurrumbilla woman, Debbie Symonds started her career as an Operations Manager with the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation in 2014 before stepping into the role of and nearly being several years later, is still currently the CEO.
Thinking ahead of time, Debbie has continued cultivating the Olkola into a successful multimillion-dollar corporation with various avenues including ranger programs, carbon abatement and tourism endeavours across Olkola traditional lands. Debbie continues to fight for the rights of the people across Cape York through her work with United Uprise and works to preserve the Olkola native lands.
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Professor of Public Health, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Debarati Guha-Sapir is Director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at the School of Public Health of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Previously trained in Calcutta University and Johns Hopkins University, she holds a doctorate in epidemiology. For over 20 years, she has been involved in field research and training in humanitarian aid issues.
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Professor of Marketing, XLRI Xavier School of Management
Debasis Pradhan is currently a Professor of Marketing at XLRI Jamshedpur, India, where he has been working since 2006. A former Associate Dean of Executive Education and Head of Department of Marketing at XLRI, Debasis' academic interests include influencer marketing, endorsement research, consumer wellbeing, impulse buying, anti-consumption/subversion, and sponsorship. His papers have been published in leading international outlets, such as Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Brand Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Journal of Marketing Communications, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, among others. He was recently a Co-Editor of a Special Issue of Journal of Consumer Affairs on “Pandemics and Well-being”. He has presented papers and chaired sessions in various international universities across USA, Europe and Asia. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Professor of Environmental Conservation, University of Greenwich
Debbie Bartlett is an established and professional Chartered Landscape Architect (Management Division), Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her current role is as Professor of Environmental Conservation at the University of Greenwich, and she has over 35 years’ experience combining local government, consultancy, teaching, and research. She is particularly interested in landscape scale management, including the social and economic factors affecting resilience to environmental/climate change.
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Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst
Debbie Felton has a B.A. in English & Latin from UCLA, and an M.A. in Greek and Ph.D. in Classics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at UMass since 1999. The interdisciplinary nature of her research interests has led to her focus on folklore in classical literature, especially anything about the supernatural and monstrous. She has been Editor of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural since 2015, and has served as Associate Review Editor for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts for many years.
Professor Felton is currently working on two edited volumes: The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, which includes forty chapters addressing various classical monsters, their interpretations, and their cultural afterlives, and A Cultural History of Monsters in Antiquity (Bloomsbury), a thematically organized volume with chapters covering monsters from the ancient world with regard to cosmologies, geographies, environments, behaviors, and identities.
Professor Felton enjoys bringing research on classical antiquity into the public sphere. Dozens of interviews about her work have appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts) in the U.S. and Europe, including Peopling the Past, Coast to Coast AM, The Monster Professor, Weird Tales, CBS Mornings, Classical Wisdom, New Books Network, and Ancient History Fangirl. Professor Felton has also presented webinars for ETC (Excellence through Classics) and a master class on ancient ghosts for SASA (Save Ancient Studies Alliance).
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Digital Health Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Debbie Passey is a Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne's Digital Health Validitron Simulation Lab, a collaborative research platform that supports the design, testing and evaluation of digital health solutions.
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Jon Pokorski and am serving as MRSEC Trainee Leadership Group Representative (IRG2). My current research focuses on fabricating biosynthetic materials by integrating genetically engineered cells into polymer composites.
Prior to joining the Pokorski lab, I received my Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. During my PhD research I developed biocompatible gelators from short self-assembling peptides for applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering. In my spare time I enjoys photography, traveling, writing and painting.
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