PhD Student in International Relations, The University of Melbourne I am a PhD Student at the University of Melbourne. I am interested in the international political economy of trade in the energy sector. Before coming to Melbourne, I did my master's thesis on free trade agreements and the export performance of Indonesia and its 50 trade partners. In 2021, I was awarded an International Research Grant on capital control, free trade agreements, and countries' welfare from the Korea Development Institute.
Senior Research Scientist, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Dr Clare Holleley is a Research Scientist at the Australian National Wildlife Collection, within National Research Collections Australia CSIRO. Her research is on sex chromosome genomics and molecular ecology. She has published 21 refereed scientific papers, including a first author cover article in the journal Nature. She received the 2014 ACT Young Tall Poppy Award for research excellence, public engagement and scientific leadership in Australia.
Lecturer, Zicklin College of Business; Advisor, Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, Baruch College, CUNY I have both an academic and a professional background in business. I have a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado, an MBA from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My work experience includes roles in engineering, finance, management, and as an entrepreneur. Among other things, I was a Managing Director for a number of years for Citigroup and my last non-academic role was as the COO of an algorithmic trading business. In academia I've served as the Interim Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at Fordham University and as the Director of Undergraduate Education in the business school at Rensselaer Polytechnic. Writing is something that I enjoy very much and am working on expanding my audience outside of academia, which is why I am interested in Conversation. Thank you!
PhD Candidate, Communication Studies, Concordia University Chrys Vilvang is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is interested in the impact of digital technologies on consciousness and is currently exploring archives, algorithms, artificial intelligence, photography, and memory through research-creation. Vilvang examines the production of meaning through images and how these processes are being transformed by tools that intervene, remediate, and alter our relationship with our photographic past. Chrys has a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University (2011), an MA in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2015), and an MA in Media Production from Toronto Metropolitan University (2017). He has worked as a research assistant with the Montreal Signs Project and the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought.
Professor of Literature, University of Pretoria I am Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. I am the author of World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa (2014) and co-editor with Rebecca Fasselt of The Short story in South Africa: Contemporary Trends and Perspectives (2022). I have published widely in the fields of African print cultures, book history and South African intellectual history.
Clinical Psychologist and PhD candidate, Swinburne University of Technology Claire Finkelstein is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and Board Approved Supervisor with a particular interest in working with individuals and families across the lifespan who grapple with eating disorders and body image concerns. She engages from a trauma-informed, systemic and emotion-focused framework and is committed to honouring diversity of body shape and size, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity and spirituality. Claire is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University and her research focuses on the emerging area of psychedelic medicine and body image distress. She is currently the trial coordinator and lead therapist on a clinical trial exploring psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a potential treatment for body image disturbance.
