Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg Dr Cristiano d’Orsi is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg. Cristiano is an Italian citizen and a South African permanent resident. He was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria in South Africa. He holds a PhD in International Relations (International Law) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His research interests include the legal protection of asylum-seekers, refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in Africa, African human rights law, and, more broadly, the development of international law in Africa. Cristiano currently lectures in these areas and he regularly delivers presentations at international conferences. Cristiano is the author of about 30 articles and chapters in books (in English and French), and of a monograph: “Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Protection in sub-Saharan Africa: the Peregrination of a Persecuted Human Being in Search of a Safe Haven” (London/New York: Routledge, 2015).
Executive Director, Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights, University of Nebraska Omaha I am an Associate Professor of Religious Studies.
Professor of Law, Indiana University Christiana Ochoa’s research seeks to understand how economic activity impacts human and ecological well-being. Her theoretical and empirical research relies on international and comparative law, particularly in the fields of Business & Human Rights, Law & Development, International Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment. She brings her field work—as well as her practice experience at the global law firm Clifford Chance and with a number of human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organizations in Latin America—to her research questions and classroom teaching. She teaches Contracts as well as International Law, International Business Transactions, Human Rights, and Law & Development. Her scholarship in these areas has been published and is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, Duke Journal of International & Comparative Law, and Human Rights Quarterly, among others. Her work has also been published internationally, including in Germany, Colombia, and Korea. Her first documentary film, Otra Cosa No Hay (There is Nothing Else), was completed in 2014, received film festival acclaim, and has been viewed by audiences around the world. Professor Ochoa has been recognized for her research, teaching, and service, and has held numerous administrative positions at the Law School, campus and university level. In 2018, she was named an Indiana University Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor. Individually, and as part of research teams, she has won competitive funding from numerous sources, including from the Mellon Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education. In 2015, she was a co-PI for a prestigious Sawyer Seminar on Documentary Media and Historical Transformations. Within the Law School, she has served as Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, and as Latin America Program Director for the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. She has held campus-wide leadership positions, including as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and as a founding Associate Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice. At the university level, she is the founding Academic Director of the IU Mexico Gateway, IU’s only office in Latin America. She has also served on various committees for AALS and ASIL.
Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University Dr. Carolyn Greene is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Athabasca University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Criminal Justice and Public Policy) from the University of Guelph, a Master of Arts degree (Criminology) from the University of Toronto and completed her Ph.D. (Criminology) at the University of Toronto. Currently, her research is focussed on three SSHRC-funded studies examining immigrant perceptions of police in Canada; experiences of invasive policing practices in Toronto; and community perceptions of and experiences with safe consumption services in Edmonton, Calgary., and Lethbridge. Her research interests are broadly focused within policing, youth justice operations/policy, reintegration, and perceptions of and experiences with criminal justice institutions, including those who work within them. Dr. Greene's research has been published in national and international journals, including Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Drug Policy, the British Journal of Criminology, Feminist Criminology, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Pathology, University of California, San Diego Chengsheng Wu, graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a Ph.D. degree in 2017. He has joined David Cheresh’s lab as a post-doctoral fellow since 2018. He is currently working on how pancreatic cancer cells adapt to cellular stress.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, Penn State Catherine Tylan works primarily in physiology and ecology, answering questions regarding the effects of stress, invasive species, and temperature on the physiology, metabolism, and immune function of wild animals. Recent work has also included assessing interactions between wildlife, their environment, and ectoparasite infestations.
