Zoe Long is a senior researcher and PhD student with the Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team at Simon Fraser University. She has 7 years of experience leading applied research in low-carbon transport solutions, resulting in over 10 peer-reviewed publications. Most recently she has received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recognizing her academic excellence, research potential, and leadership capability. Her research aims to understand how consumers use low-carbon transport technologies and how policy can ensure that these technologies are compatible with climate change goals – with the goal of producing evidence-based policy recommendations for decision makers.
My research focuses on issues around Chinese governance, state-society relations and political economy, particularly in thr policy fields of cultural heritage and demographic change.
My current research focuses on how and why African Elephants use seismic communication. My other ongoing research interests include the ecology and conservation of tropical forest habitat and its resident vertebrate fauna, particularly cheirogaleid lemurs in Madagascar. Additionally, I am interested in the use of bioacoustics for non-invasive biodiversity assessment at the ecosystem level and to disentangle the cryptic species complex.
Jeffrey Chen is a medical student at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine interested in pursuing a career in academic dermatology. Prior to medical school, Jeffrey worked as a technology consultant for several years and was a member of several information technology advisory councils. Jeffrey's research interests include skin cancer, skin equity, and AI in dermatology.
Sonal Choudhary, MD is a dermatology trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2015 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology.
In 26 years at the College of Charleston, Scott Peeples has taught a wide array of courses, with topics ranging from Gothicism to 19th-century American poetry to Bob Dylan. He has published extensively on Edgar Allan Poe and other 19th-century writers, most recently as author of The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City and as co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. His essays have appeared in a wide range of academic and popular publications, including J19, Southern Cultures, Arizona Quarterly, Salon, and The Millions. Dr. Peeples previously served as Chair of the English Department from 2012 to 2017. He is a past president of the Poe Studies Association and the Southeastern American Studies Association.
