Contributors

Azmat Abbas

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University I am a doctoral candidate at the Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo Joint-PhD in Religion and Culture.

Amy Friend

Associate professor, Visual Arts Department, Brock University

Associate professor, Visual Arts Department, Brock University I am an artist and educator with a primary focus on photography. My work centres on exploring the depths of this medium, aiming to challenge conventional expectations and perceptions while redefining how we engage with and interpret photography. I am an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University where I teach studio arts.

Adam Lowe

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Aston University

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Aston University I am a theoretical physicist, who obtained my PhD from Aston University in 2020. My main research focus is investigating quantum correlations from a game-theoretic perspective. My research can be applied to near-future quantum technologies, with particular relevance to quantum computing and networks.

Alexandre Bohas

Professeur d'Affaires internationales, ESSCA School of Management

Professeur d'Affaires internationales, ESSCA School of Management Diplômé de Sciences Po Bordeaux, Alexandre Bohas est docteur en économie politique internationale de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Il est également membre du centre d’études et de recherches transnationalistes, Chaos international, pour lequel il a écrit de nombreuses notes d’analyse publiées dans des ouvrages collectifs. Ses recherches portent sur les sphères de la culture et leurs enjeux de pouvoir. Il s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux firmes transnationales de l’entertainment, à la prépondérance américaine dans ce domaine et aux soft power des pays émergents. Par ailleurs, tirant profit d’une expérience professionnelle de dix ans dans une entreprise multinationale, il s’est spécialisé dans les domaines du management international sur les sujets ayant trait au leadership global et aux investissements directs à l’étranger. En 2008, il a coécrit avec Josepha Laroche un ouvrage intitulé Canal+ et les majors américaines. Une vision désenchantée du cinéma-monde. Deux ans plus tard, il a publié le livre Disney. Un capitalisme mondial du rêve, qui a fait l’objet, en 2016, d’une réédition augmentée et actualisée en anglais sous le titre The Political Economy of Disney. The Cultural Capitalism of Hollywood. Il est aussi l’auteur d’articles parus dans différentes revues académiques telles que Review of International Political Economy et Global Society.

Anne Murphy

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia Anne Murphy (Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, with interests in language and literary cultures, the history of the Punjabi language in South Asia and beyond, religious community formations in the early modern and modern periods, oral history, commemoration, historiography, and material culture studies. Current research concerns modern Punjabi cultural production in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs and in the Diaspora, and the early modern history of Punjabi's emergence as a literary language. She has published one monograph, edited or co-edited three volumes and three special journal issues, one book-length translation, and articles in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, History and Theory, Studies in Canadian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and other journals.

Anna Schwabe

Associate Lecture Professor of Modern Cannabis Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Associate Lecture Professor of Modern Cannabis Science, University of Colorado Boulder Anna Schwabe is a researcher and educator with expertise in Cannabis genetics and biology and has considerable experience in a variety of scientific fields. She holds a BS, an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Northern Colorado and was awarded both the Dean's Citation of Excellence and The Dean's Award for Outstanding Dissertation for her research evaluating genotypic and phenotypic variation in Cannabis. She is an established presenter, grant writer, and has published primary research spanning several disciplines, including genetics, conservation, and education. Her research has been featured in multiple media articles and she has been interviewed in several podcasts and webcasts. She serves as a consultant for the Agricultural Genomics Foundation, Advisory Board Member for Agricultural Genomics Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board member for Bace Health, an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, and an Associate Lecture Professor at the University of Colorado. Her previous professional and academic positions over the last two decades encompass both laboratory and business management, and she is skilled in advising and coordinating multiple concurrent projects. She is passionate about Cannabis science and facilitating consistency in the cannabis industry.