Contributors

Andrew van der Vlies

Professor, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide

Professor, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide

Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes

Academic in Financial Planning, CQUniversity Australia

Academic in Financial Planning, CQUniversity Australia My collection of seven qualifications were earned beginning in the late-1980s starting with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Business Economics and Economics majors), followed by a Bachelor of Commerce Honours (Economics and Finance majors) degree graduating from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. After emigrating to New Zealand in July 1994, I completed a Graduate Diploma in Management (Human Resources Management major) at the University of Canterbury and a few years later a Master of Commerce and Management (Financial Management) at Lincoln University. The Masters by research topic was “Working Capital Management: Theory and New Zealand Empirical evidence” and I graduated in 2002. Then in 2007 the McInnes clan of three primary school age children, my husband and me decided it was time to move to Brisbane, Australia. Needing another career change I completed the Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning) with Kaplan Professional, and the Advanced Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning) with AMP Horizon Academy and Pinnacle. By 2014 I saw an opportunity to contribute to the Australian Financial Advisory sector and started a PHD with research topic: “Legitimacy of the ‘Authorised Representative’ Licensing Model of Individual Financial Advisers: Theory and Australian Empirical Evidence”. I completed the PHD in 2018, and I am happy to report it has been helpful in furthering the professionalisation of financial advisers in Australia.

Ari Joskowicz

Associate Professor of History, Jewish Studies and European Studies, Vanderbilt University

Associate Professor of History, Jewish Studies and European Studies, Vanderbilt University Ari Joskowicz is a historian of modern Jewish and European history. He is especially interested in the interplay between Jewish history and transnational minority politics since the Enlightenment. His book The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France (Stanford University Press, 2014) explores how German and French Jews in the long nineteenth century defined their own modernity and national belonging by criticizing the anti-modern politics of the Catholic Church. The book was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award (2015). His articles emerging from his interest in questions of religious polemics and secularism include: “Liberal Judaism and Confessional Politics of Difference in the German Kulturkampf” in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook (2005), “Heinrich Heine’s Transparent Masks: Denominational Politics and the Poetics of Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Germany and France,” in the German Studies Review (2011), “The Priest, the Woman, and the Jewish Family: Gender and Conversion Fears in 1840s France,” in the Jewish Quarterly Review (2011), “Jewish Anticlericalism and the Making of Modern Jewish Politics in Late Enlightenment Prussia and France,” in Jewish Social Studies (2011), and “Selma the Jewish Seer: Female Prophecy and Bourgeois Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany” in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (2014). He is also the co-editor of Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). His new book, Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2023) traces the unlikely entanglement of the histories of Jews and Romanies throughout the twentieth century, focusing on Western and Central Europe as well as the United States and Israel. The aim of this project is twofold: First, he explores the encounters between Jews and Romanies in various camps and killing fields during the Holocaust. Second, he seeks to understand how survivors and historians have spoken about Romani and Jewish suffering during the Second World War in relational terms and to explore the paradoxes that arise when victims of related persecution tell stories next to, and after, each other. Several articles develop themes from this project: “Romani Refugees and the Postwar Order” (Journal of Contemporary History, 2016), “Separate Suffering, Shared Archives: Jewish and Romani Histories of Nazi Persecution” (History & Memory, 2016), and “The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship” (American Historical Review, 2020). His interest in the history of European minorities is also reflected in various other scholarly projects. He contributed to two EU studies on racism and antisemitism in contemporary Europe and translated G. C. Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” into German together with Stefan Nowotny (Vienna, 2007). His work has been supported, among others by the Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, the American Society of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. At Vanderbilt, Professor Joskowicz teaches courses in modern European and Jewish history, including “The Holocaust,” “The Idea of Europe,” “Religion and Politics in Modern Europe,” “Perspectives on Modern Jewish History,” and “Conspiracy Theories and Rumors.”

Aimee Bailey

Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University

Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University I am a discourse analyst interested in the relationship between language and identity, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality. My research looks at how gender and sexuality are constructed through digital and news media. It makes use of queer theory, feminist theory, corpus linguistics and (multimodal) critical discourse analysis. I am especially interested in the role of language in issues of inclusion and exclusion, and have examined this in contexts such as queer women's online spaces and the representation of trans athletes.

Alice Bloch

Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester

Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Alice's current research explores inter-generational memory practices among the descendants of Holocaust survivors who have replicated their ancestors Auschwitz concentration camp number on their own body. Alice is writing a book from this current research. Alice's research has focussed on forced migration and has been funded by the ESRC, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Work and Pensions and others. Alice's authored books include 'Living on the Margins: Undocumented migrants in a global city' (with Sonia McKay Policy Press, 2016) and 'Sans Papiers: The social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in the UK' (with Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter Pluto Press, 2014). Alice edited 'Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates', (with Giorgia Dona, Routledge, 2019). Alice is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Aleksi Ylönen

Professor, United States International University

Professor, United States International University Aleksi Ylönen is a researcher at the Center for International Studies, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, a professor at the United States International University-Africa, and an associate fellow at the HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is an expert in international politics and specializes in the greater Horn of Africa. Dr. Ylönen’s work has appeared in numerous scholarly publications and various outlets for the wider public.