Professor of History, The Ohio State University Christopher McKnight Nichols is Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at The Ohio State University. Author or editor of six books including most recently Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories (Columbia UP, 2022) and Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Oxford UP, 2021), Nichols is most well known for his book Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (Harvard UP, 2011, 2015). Nichols specializes in the history of the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world, particularly in the areas of isolationism, internationalism, and globalization, as well as the role of ideas and ideologies in U.S. foreign relations. He is also an expert on modern U.S. intellectual, political, and cultural history, from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1880-1920) through the present. Areas of Expertise Intellectual history of the U.S.'s role in and with the world Isolationism, internationalism, globalization U.S. and the World, nineteenth century to the present Intersection of U.S. domestic and foreign policy Grand Strategy, Ideology, Anti-imperialism Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic U.S. political history, party politics, elections Modern U.S. history, modern international history
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Procedure, University of the Western Cape I am Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice and Procedure at the Faculty of Law at University of the Western Cape. My responsibilities range from teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate level, supervision of students' research, research on key issues pertaining to the criminal justice system, access to socio-economic rights in South Africa and the impact it has on crime and criminal justice, to commentary on policy and analysis of court cases from a constitutional and specifically a socio-economic perspective. My research expertise and interests are in human rights, rule of law, corruption, socio-economic rights, poverty alleviation and social inclusion. I am also a member of the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law editorial team. https://epubs.ac.za/index.php/jacl/index/
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Liverpool I'm now a Postdoc at the University of Liverpool on Muon g-2 and MUonE. The MUonE experiment aims at a completely independent and very precise measurement of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic moment.
Reader in Psychopharmacology, Liverpool John Moores University Dr Cathy Montgomery is a Reader in Psychopharmacology and Head of the Institute for Health Research at Liverpool John Moores University. Dr Montgomery’s PhD research investigated the effects of the recreational drugs ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine on working memory and the fractionated model of executive functioning. Since this time, her research has developed to investigate the effects of drugs on various aspects of cognitive function and their neurophysiological, neuroendocrine and neuroelectric effects. From 2006-2019, Cathy was Honorary Secretary of the Psychobiology Section of the British Psychological Society and currently leads the Marginalised Groups sub-theme of the NIHR funded Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast.
Researcher, Institute of Development Studies Celeste is a Research Officer at the International Centre for Tax and Development, primarily working in the Tax Administrations and Compliance and DIGITAX programmes. She is researching several projects regarding tax administration, from technology adoption to data management and revenue collection strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has experience with quantitative and qualitative data analysis and fieldwork experience in Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. Before joining the ICTD, Celeste worked as Trainee at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa in New York. Celeste holds an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex and is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Sussex.
Director of Public Scholarship, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis PhD in English and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis. Specializes in contemporary literature, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and air travel. Author of nine books, including most recently "Adventure: An Argument for Limits" (Bloomsbury, 2023). Directing the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Founding series co-editor of Object Lessons.
