Contributors

Chiara Lanfranchi

Researcher · CCDP - Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Researcher · CCDP - Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Christopher Ferguson

Associate Professor of History, Auburn University

Associate Professor of History, Auburn University Christopher Ferguson is a historian of Modern Britain, with special interests in the period c. 1780-c. 1870, urban history, autobiography and other ego documents, and material culture. He joined the Auburn University faculty in 2008, after completing his PhD in British and cultural history at Indiana University, where he also received an interdisciplinary minor in Victorian studies. At Auburn, Ferguson teaches survey courses in modern British, European, and world history, as well as topics and graduate courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and European history, and the histories of gender and material culture. Ferguson’s first book, An Artisan Intellectual, examines the life and ideas of the English tailor and writer James Carter (1792-1853), one of the countless and largely anonymous individuals whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain’s long march to modernity. Born in Colchester, Carter began working as a tailor at age thirteen, and later migrated to London. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations in every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background, supplementing his income by writing, publishing books, articles, and poetry on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization. The history of Carter’s life and writings, therefore, offers a particularly rich entry point for understanding the larger history of how ordinary Britons were swept up in - but also swam against - the waves of revolutionary change transforming their society during the first half of the nineteenth century. Ferguson’s current research project, Making Sense of the City, analyzes British responses to rapid urbanization during the first half of the “long” nineteenth century, arguing that for ordinary Britons the transition to a society of city-dwellers represented a transformation as revolutionary as the economic and political changes occurring during the same years.

Cara Elizabeth Furman

Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Hunter College

Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Hunter College Cara E. Furman, PhD, is an associate professor of early childhood education at Hunter College as of Spring 2024. She is author of Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction (2024), co-author of Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice: Cultivating Practical Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools, co-editor of Teachers and Philosophy: Essays from the Contact Zone (2025). She is the host of the podcast Teaching from an Ethical Center: An Inquiry Among Friends and Co-Host of Thinking in the Midst. She is passionate about ethical teacher development as it intersects with inquiry, asset based inclusive teaching, and progressive literacy practices.

Claire Ricard

Research Fellow at CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

Research Fellow at CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

Chris Gaviglio

Lecturer Strength and Conditioning, University of Southern Queensland

Lecturer Strength and Conditioning, University of Southern Queensland Dr. Chris Gaviglio is a lecturer in strength and conditioning at the University of Southern Queensland. His teaching and research focus on applied sports science, with particular interests in blood flow restriction training, passive heat maintenance, warm-up and competition strategies, and power and strength development. Chris has spent over 25 years as a strength and conditioning coach working in elite sport. His career includes roles with professional teams such as Bath Rugby (UK), the Queensland Maroons Rugby League team, Brisbane Broncos, Wallabies Rugby Union, and the Gold Coast SUNS AFL team. In addition to these roles, Chris has worked with a wide range of other sports and athletes, including Olympians such as Cedric Dubler (Decathlon) and Jacqui Naracott (Skeleton), the latter earning Australia’s first Winter Olympic sliding medal with a silver at the 2022 Beijing Games. Chris holds Australian Strength and Conditioning Association (ASCA) accreditation and is also a qualified athletics coach, blending his practical experience with his academic expertise to drive innovation in sports performance.

Caitlin Milera

Research Assistant Professor of Aerospace, University of North Dakota

Research Assistant Professor of Aerospace, University of North Dakota Dr. Caitlin Milera is the Director of the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC) and North Dakota NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). Dr. Milera is also a Research Assistant Professor in the John D. Odegard College of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Milera’s educational background includes a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning with an emphasis in Higher Education, an M.S. in Space Studies, and a B.S. in Astrophysics. Her research interests include diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, engagement of underserved and underrepresented communities in STEM fields, and LGBTQIA initiatives in higher education.