Ben A. Minteer is professor of environmental ethics and conservation and the Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. He writes about wilderness, conservation, zoos, and the history of American environmental thought. Minteer is author, editor, or co-editor of a dozen books, including The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation (Columbia University Press), The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation (University of Chicago Press), After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans (University of Chicago Press), and The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America (MIT Press). His new book (co-authored with Mark Klett and Steve Pyne) is Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea (Yale University Press).
Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney Benjamin's teaching and research draws connections between rhetorical theory, Australian literary studies, theatre history and Indigenous studies. Benjamin's expertise teaching first-year writing and senior-level rhetorical theory units is built upon research into Aboriginal writing, early Australian theatre, hip-hop, and political oratory.
Professor of Psychology, Health and Medical University I’m a cognitive and behavioral scientist with a background in psychology. My research investigates the computational and behavioral principles that support human learning, search, and decision making. I am particularly interested in how humans actively search for information or rewards, how they make causal inferences based on limited and noisy data, and the cognitive foundations of judgment and decision making. I like computational models of cognition, which I develop and test by running behavioral studies that span across a wide range of age groups. My work also provides several connections to applied research, for instance regarding the use of behavioral insights in policy making and how people understand and evaluate medical risks. I’m a professor of cognitive and experimental psychology (Allgemeine Psychologie) at the Health and Medical University in Potsdam. In addition, I’m affiliated with the Max Planck Research Group iSearch at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences (CEREB) at the University of Erfurt.
Associate Professor, Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Dr. Baljit Nagra is a tenured Associate Professor in the Criminology Department at the University of Ottawa. She has previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Ottawa and at York University after receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. Her research aims to understand how racial discourses are rearticulated in the ‘War on Terror’. Her intellectual interest is in learning how racial boundaries are transformed through a language of gender, religion and security, creating ‘legitimate/desirable’ and ‘illegitimate/undesirable’ members of westerns nations, and reproducing past racialized nation state projects. Both her research and teaching are geared towards racial justice. Her research has been published in highly ranked refereed journals such as the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, British Journal of Criminology, Canadian Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is also the author of a book titled Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post 9/11 that was published by the University of Toronto Press. Her main areas of interest are in Race Relations, National Security and Surveillance, and Qualitative Research.
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University Brandy Thomas Wells is Assistant Professor of history at Oklahoma State University. She specializes in modern United States History, African American and African American women's history, transnationalism, and gender, religion, and empire. She is writing her first book, which examines how activists in the National Council of Negro Women and the National Association of Colored Women envisaged and pursued civil and human rights in the 20th century. She has published in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empire, and edited collections like Ideology in U.S Foreign Relations.
Associate Professor in the School of Management, University of Bradford Dr. Banita Lal is an Associate Professor in Responsible Management, Director of the Masters in Management Portfolio and Programme Leader for the MSc Management programme. She gained her PhD from the Department of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, UK before moving on to work at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Bedfordshire. At the latter, Banita was Course Coordinator for the BSc (Hons) Business Studies and six pathway programmes and had overall responsibility for over five hundred students in the UK and Vietnam. She has been instrumental in new course development with a strong emphasis on employability and a practice-based approach to teaching and learning. Banita's research interests are in the area of adoption and diffusion of technology and include: social media technology, ICT for Development and ICT-enabled flexible working arrangements. She has published in conferences and journals in the field of Information Systems which include: Information Systems Frontiers, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology and People, the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) and the Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Banita currently serves as a programme committee member for IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) 8.6 Group - an international group concerned with the diffusion, adoption and implementation of information (and communication) technologies.
