Lecturer in the History of Modern Africa, University of Bristol I am a social historian of modern Africa, with a particular focus on gender and women's history. My interests include African oral histories, histories of humanitarianism, welfarism and development, counter-insurgency warfare, colonial violence, and digital humanities. My current book project explores the relationship between colonial counter-insurgency tactics and international humanitarianism in the context of the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya, 1952-1960. It uses villagisation, a counter-insurgency measure enforced during the campaign to administer tighter control over the movement of civilians, as a site to interrogate the relationships between humanitarian organisations, the colonial administration and the displaced indigenous women and their children. The project analyses the supposedly reformative practices deployed by the British colonial government and external actors, like the British Red Cross Society, in response to women and girls suspected of supporting forest fighters. These practices publicly endorsed ideas of African women’s advancement and development. While the colonial government projected a reformative discourse for their approach to women and children, this research shows that this process was gendered and inherently violent in practice. Villagisation in this campaign operated as a tool to subdue a specific demographic of the Kenyan population suspected of fuelling anti-colonial action: women and girls.
First Nations Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research Beau Jayde Cubillo obtained a PhD, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, 2023, Bachelor of Nutrition (First Class Honours), Monash University 2018 and a Bachelor of Human Nutrition, Flinders University 2016. He is a (Larrakia and Wadjigan) First Nations Senior Research Fellow within the Wellbeing & Preventable Chronic Diseases (WPCD) Division at Menzies. Cubillo has expertise and experience in research related to Indigenous nutrition, health, and wellbeing in addition to qualitative and Indigenous Research Methodologies. His research is primarily focused within the Northern Territory and has emphasised community engagement, reciprocity and translation to community programs and policy. His research has focused on conceptualising how nutrition, health and wellbeing in connected to Indigenous food systems from Indigenous perspectives. He also leads programs of research on the Indigenous commercial determinants of health.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University Franks’s research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental and animal protection, specializing in animal behavior, aquatic animal welfare, quantitative methods, and human-animal relationships. The core questions driving her work are: (i) How are animals affected by the Anthropocene? and (ii) How can the study of animal behavior and our understanding of animals provide valuable responses to the demands of the Anthropocene? In addition to publishing scholarly articles, commentaries, and book chapters on these topics, she had co-edited a special issue in Animal Behavior and Welfare for the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Prior to joining NYU, Franks was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she was awarded the Killam Research Prize. She is an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Professor of English, UMass Lowell Dr. Bridget M. Marshall is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on Gothic novels, New England witchcraft trials, American literature, and disability in literature. She is the author of Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature (2021, University of Wales Press) and The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 – 1860 (2011, Ashgate).
Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. My research focuses on American political parties and election campaigns. I am the author of National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics: The Democratic and Republican National Committees, 1912-2016 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and the co-author of Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). My articles have been published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Perspectives on Politics, Studies in American Political Development, and Political Behavior. I teach courses on American Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, The US Congress, and American Political Institutions.
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Healthy and Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia As an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Dr Bok undertakes research in the interests of using futures research in creative and generative ways to achieve transformational impact in the contexts of complex problem situations.
