Contributors

Andreana Prichard

Associate Professor of Honors and African History, University of Oklahoma

Associate Professor of Honors and African History, University of Oklahoma I am the Wick Cary Associate Professor of Honors and African History in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. My research focuses on the intersections of gender, politics, and religion in East Africa. I am currently working on a project about the history of evangelical development initiatives in Kenya.

Alexandra Digby

Adjunct Assistant professor of Economics, University of Rochester

Adjunct Assistant professor of Economics, University of Rochester I graduated with a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge. After that I worked for a short time at the Economist as an assistant editor during which time I published articles on financial and economic history. I am now employed as an adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and as Assistant Professor of Economics at Minerva University. My co-writers are employed by Minerva University.

Anna Sobek

Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Head of Department of Environmental Sciences, Stockholm University

Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Head of Department of Environmental Sciences, Stockholm University My research is about organic contaminants. I am interested in how contaminants distribute in the environment, with emphasis on the aquatic environment, and how processes in the environment affect where contaminants end up and what risk they pose to organisms and ecosystems. Much of my research therefore bridges between environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry, and sometimes even environmental law and social sciences. I am interested in the organic carbon cycle and how it contributes to determine environmental fate and risk of hydrophobic organic contaminants. A recent example of this is the work we did to study how the origin of organic matter in Baltic Sea sediment affects the sediment sorption capacity of PCBs and PAHs, and thereby also the release of these chemicals to the water column. In my research group we currently have several projects to study the effects of organic contaminant mixtures on various aquatic organisms by using passive dosing and the chemical activity concept. We have projects to study processes that affect the release of contaminants from sediment to water and how to use passive samplers for improved risk assessment of contaminated sediments. In a collaborative project with researchers on hadal systems, we study the occurrence of organic contaminants in hadal trenches (the deepest parts of the global ocean). Here we are particularly interested in how degradation of organic matter in the trench affects storage of contaminants in these extreme places. In our research we combine theory and methods from various disciplines. We work in the field, perform experiments in the lab, develop methods for chemical analysis and use literature surveys and apply models.

A. Joseph Dial

Disco Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University

Disco Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University I hold a PhD from North Carolina State University’s Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) program where my expertise is in materialist and digital media studies, digital humanities, and cultural studies of technology and race. These areas of expertise inform my research and teaching interests, which, broadly sketched, are Black studies, affective labor, popular culture, urban spaces and temporal flows, and the nexus between sports and science and technology. Currently, I am a DISCO (Design, Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, Optimism) Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow where I work at Purdue University’s Humanities and Technoscience (HAT) Lab. Situated at the intersection of the humanities and STEM, the Humanities and Technoscience (HAT) lab will build-out collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships with Purdue’s various departments and schools and experiment with new teaching modules, possible degree programs, and a new project-based course: DISCO STEM+Humanities Technoscience, offering a hands-on, technology-based student experience.

Alessia Tranchese

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics, University of Portsmouth

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics, University of Portsmouth I teach Communication and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth. I am interested in the representation of violence against women in both online and traditional media.

Aude Ripoche

Chercheure en agronomie du système de culture et modélisatrice, Cirad

Chercheure en agronomie du système de culture et modélisatrice, Cirad • Agronomie du système de culture, • Évaluation des performances agronomiques et environnementales des systèmes de culture • Interactions culture / adventices dans les systèmes de culture • Modélisation du système de culture • Évaluation de la nuisibilité des adventices