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Dusty Hoesly
Postdoctoral Researcher in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
My research focuses on American religions and secularism, specializing in how new religious movements, Asian American religions, and the religiously unaffiliated shape modern American culture. I employ humanistic and social scientific methods to investigate how religion is constructed through discourse, practices, and institutions. I have published work on the Universal Life Church and contemporary American weddings, organic foods in new religious movements, biodiversity and spiritual wellbeing, and religion in the American West.
Current projects include the Meaning of Religion Project, part of an intergenerational study of religion, spirituality, and values funded by the John Templeton Foundation; the Secular Communities Survey, the largest-ever study of organized nonbelievers in the U.S.; a co-edited volume (with Melissa Borja) on Asian American Religions, Religious Freedom, and the State; and a monograph on the Universal Life Church. I am also developing articles about the Orientalist origins of the brainwashing concept and its application against Asian American new religions, the Esalen Institute’s spiritualization of geopolitics, and the federal taxation of religious groups.
I have conducted podcast interviews and written articles for the Religious Studies Project, published book reviews and encyclopedia entries, and contributed articles for academic blogs. These can be found here.
I am co-chair of the AAR’s Sociology of Religion Unit and I serve on the steering committee of AAR’s Asian North American Religion, Culture, & Society Unit.
Previously, I was a visiting assistant teaching professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dwan Vilcins
Group leader, Environmental Epidemiology, Children’s Health Environment Program, The University of Queensland
Dwan is an environmental epidemiologist, with a particular interest in children's environmental health. Her current research explores the following:
- Environmentally persistent free radicals, air pollution, and children's lung outcomes
- Bushfire smoke exposure and health effects
- Green space, ambient temperature and air pollution and the association with child outcomes
- Exposure to phthalates and allergic disease
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Dyala Hamzah
Associate professor of history, Université de Montréal
My research interests concern the processes of reform and centralization in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire throughout the 19th century (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, North Africa), from a cultural and social perspective. The central role of the press and associations in the emergence of a public space during the Arab Renaissance and the issues of education and citizenship in the colonial and post-colonial periods are central to my research.
At the same time, my work bears on the symmetrical processes of professionalization and the popularization of Islamic expertise in the 20th century. More specifically, I am interested in the institutional and curricular development of mosque-universities such as al-Azhar, Zaytuna and Qarawiyyin, from the 18th century until their nationalization in the 1960s, and also in the legacies and uses of Islamic historiography, philosophy and law in the contemporary period, particularly in nationalism and Islamism.
My current research aims to contribute to the cultural history of Arab nationalism and to define its key institutions: volunteer associations and secret societies; scouting movements; school textbooks.
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Dyan Mazurana
Research Professor of Global Affairs, Tufts University
Dyan Mazurana, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, and Research Director at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. Her research focuses on the areas of women, children, and armed conflict, gendered dimensions of humanitarian response to conflict and crises, documenting serious crimes committed during conflict, and accountability, remedy, and reparation. She serves as an adviser to several governments, UN agencies, human rights NGOs, and child protection organizations regarding humanitarian assistance and improving efforts to assist youth and women affected by armed conflict. This work includes the protection of women and children during armed conflict, including those people associated with fighting forces, as well as remedy and reparation in the aftermath of violence.
Dyan has written and developed training materials regarding gender, human rights, armed conflict, and post-conflict periods for civilian, police, and military peacekeepers involved in UN and NATO operations. In conjunction with international human rights groups, she contributed to materials now widely used to assist in documenting serious violations and abuses against women and girls during conflict and post-conflict reconstruction periods. She has worked in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Nepal, and southern, west and east Africa.
She has published more than 100 scholarly and policy books, articles, and international reports and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Dyan has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in women’s studies from Clark University.
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Dylan Bird
PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
PhD candidate at University of Tasmania researching podcasting, journalism and democracy.
Broadcaster and podcast host/producer.
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Dylan Hicks
Lecturer Active Communities & Social Impact / PhD Sports Biomechanics, Flinders University
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Dylan Poulus
Senior Research Fellow at Movember & Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Dylan J. White
Philosophy PhD Student, University of Guelph
I am a philosophy PhD student studying cognitive science and the philosophy of technology, especially AI ethics, at the University of Guelph.
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