Contributors

Antti Mikkonen

Principal Health Risk Advisor – Chemicals, EPA Victoria, and PhD Candidate, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia

Principal Health Risk Advisor – Chemicals, EPA Victoria, and PhD Candidate, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia Please add a brief bio

Andrew Rettenmaier

Executive Associate Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University

Executive Associate Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University Andrew J. Rettenmaier, PhD is the executive associate director at the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on income and wealth inequality, labor economics, health care policy, and elderly entitlement programs. He co-authored The Economics of Medicare Reform, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare, AEI Press. He was an editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, University of Chicago Press. He has been co-principal investigator on several research grants and has published numerous public policy monographs and academic articles.

Alyssa J. Davis

PhD Student in Sociology, Vanderbilt University

PhD Student in Sociology, Vanderbilt University Alyssa Davis received her B.A. in Psychology from Clemson University in 2020, and her M.A. in Social Sciences from Clemson University in 2022. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, masculinity, sexual assault, and online social movements. Her master’s thesis focused on analyzing an online, predominately male, hate group and their constructions of masculinity and masculine power. Additional projects Alyssa has been on have analyzed Reddit comments in response to Drag Queen Story Hour, evaluated of the effectiveness of SAMFEs in sexual assault cause outcomes, and studied constructions of sexual consent online.

Aaron Camens

Lecturer in Palaeontology

Lecturer in Palaeontology

Ashley S. Deeks

Professor of Scholarly Research in Law, University of Virginia

Professor of Scholarly Research in Law, University of Virginia Ashley Deeks joined the Law School in 2012 as an associate professor of law after two years as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of international law, national security, intelligence and the laws of war. She has written articles on the use of force, executive power, secret treaties, the intersection of national security and international law, and the laws of armed conflict. She is a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law and the American Law Institute, and she serves as a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog. Deeks also recently served as White House associate counsel and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council while on leave from the Law School. She is a senior fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, and a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. Before joining Columbia in 2010, she served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she worked on issues related to the law of armed conflict, the use of force, conventional weapons, and the legal framework for the conflict with al-Qaida. She also provided advice on intelligence issues. In previous positions at the State Department, Deeks advised on international law enforcement, extradition and diplomatic property questions. In 2005, she served as the embassy legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, during Iraq’s constitutional negotiations. Deeks was a 2007-08 Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow and a visiting fellow in residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Deeks received her J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as comment editor on the Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Andrea Stanton

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & Faculty Affiliate, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & Faculty Affiliate, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver Middle East historian with a focus on broadcast media and national identity. Islamic studies professor with a focus on contemporary concerns including the use of emoticons on Salafi websites (and what they can tell us about Sunni authority), the hajj in the era of broadcast media, and the evolving use of anti-Islam rhetoric in the United States.