Postdoctoral research scholar at the Center for Work and Democracy, Arizona State University Benjamin Case is a political sociologist specializing in social movements, democracy, and political violence. He is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University's Center for Work and Democracy and he has more than two decades experience in political, labor, and community organizing.
Masters of Public Health student, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Dr. Ben Thomson (MD MSc MPH(c) FRCPC) is a nephrology and internal medicine physician practicing in the Toronto area. He commonly travels outside Canada to do humanitarian work, including to Gaza and Uganda. He runs a charity to enhance medical education in low and middle income countries, and is completing MPH at Johns Hopkins school of public health, specializing in Humanitarian Health
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Monash University Beatrice Trefalt is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at Monash University. She is a historian who works on post-war Japanese history, specialising in wartime experiences and their legacies. Her doctoral thesis examined the return to Japan of so-called stragglers (soldiers who did not know the war was over) until 1975. She has also written on war crimes trials, and on the search for human remains. Her latest publication is Trefalt, B. (2024). The 1955 Japanese mission to New Guinea: War remains and the politics of commemoration in the wake of the Asia-Pacific War. Human Remains and Violence : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 9(2), 60–75. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.9.2.4n
Researcher in Climate Change Engagement, Cardiff University I am a researcher focusing on public engagement with climate change and society-wide transformations to address it. Working in both academic and non-academic roles, some of the research areas I have covered in relation to climate change include older people, young people and climate justice, cultural events and live music, travel, and the higher education sector.
Honorary Research Fellow in History, University of Glasgow As a historian, I’m curious about where we came from, how we got here and what made us the way we are. My main area of interest is integration of immigrants and their descendants into western European societies during the modern era. At present, I research attitudes to immigrants in Great Britain between 1921 and 2021 and the language used to put these feelings into words. In this study I apply a linguistic historical approach to throw new light on past events and developments. I’m also interested in the subject of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust and a member of the forum Jews Saving Jews at the Faculty of Jewish Studies of Bar-Ilan University. My latest book is on individuals and small groups in Jewish resistance in the Netherlands. My work on these subjects has been acknowledged through an appointment as Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Humanities of the University of Glasgow.
