Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Purdue University Cheryl Cooky is a professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. Her interdisciplinary research examines the intersections of gendered dynamics, cultural representations, and sports contexts. She is the co-author of "Serving Equality: Feminism, Media and Women’s Sports (2022, Peter Lang Publishers) and "No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (2018, Rutgers University Press). Her research is published in a diverse array of journals including Communication & Sport, Gender & Society, Journal of Sex Research, Sex Roles, Sociology of Sport Journal, among others. She is the Editor of Sociology of Sport Journal and the past-President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). Committed to making research accessible to general audiences and to translating academic knowledge to advocate for gender equality, Dr. Cooky has been quoted in over 100 national and international news media outlets and has appeared as a guest on over 30 podcasts and national TV/ radio programs, including NPR, PBS Newshour, and Edge of Sports. Her op-ed articles are published in NBC Think epsnW, Huff Post, Indianapolis Star, among others. Cooky served as a consultant for Humankind Research, a UK-based research consulting firm which informed the development of Nike’s 2019 “Dream Crazier” campaign. She also served as a consultant for Leo Burnett, a top U.S.-based advertising firm which informed the development of Buick’s #SeeHerGreatness campaign. This campaign advocates for equality in women’s sports and media coverage.
Associate Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo Conrad Kickert studies the evolving relationship between urban form, urban life and the urban economy. He has a background in urbanism and architecture from the TU Delft (Netherlands) and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Michigan. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer for various design offices, property developers and non-profit organizations in The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Dr. Kickert has authored award-winning articles and books on the interrelation between cities, their evolution, and their economy, including articles for the Journal of Urban Studies and the London School of Economics, an Oxford University bibliography, the recent monograph "Dream City - Creation, Destruction and Reinvention in downtown Detroit" with MIT Press and upcoming books on urban retail and street-level architecture. Among others, his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, UBER, the Haile/US Bank Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
Instructional Associate Professor, Sport Management, University of Florida Cyntrice Thomas is a lecturer in the Department of Sport Management. Prior to coming to UF, she was a professor of Sport Business at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL. She is a graduate of Florida State University and she holds a Juris Doctor from Tulane University as well. She is a licensed attorney in the District of Columbia and state of Virginia. After practicing law for a few years she pursued her PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include: • Legal aspects of sports • The application of antitrust law in sports • Collective bargaining and labor issues in sports • Social issues in sports
Content Manager, AustLit, The University of Queensland Dr Catriona Mills holds degrees from Macquarie University and The University of Queensland. She has published on adaptations of penny-weekly serials to the English suburban stage, authorship attribution in Australian nineteenth-century periodicals, Australian steampunk, and Doctor Who. She has worked for AustLit, for which she is currently the Content Manager, since 2010.
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University Dr. Liu's research has been focusing on capturing, modeling and monitoring the software behavior at run-time using hardware-level information. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. - 2008 University of California - Irvine Electrical Engineering M.S. - 2002 University of California - Riverside Electrical Engineering B.E. - 2000 University of Science and Technology of China Research Interests: Processor architecture: multi/many-core multi-threading architecture Embedded Systems Power/Energy-aware computing Interaction between operating system and micro-architecture Hardware acceleration techniques and reconfigurable computing
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University Charlie received his bachelor's degree in political science from Brown University in 2011, and his PhD in 2019. He specializes in American politics, and more specifically in Congress, elections, and political representation. His first book, "Home Field Advantage: Roots, Reelection, and Representation in the Modern Congress" is now available at University of Michigan Press. Here is also the author of the Substack "You Are Here", which investigates the intersection of place and location with politics, poetry, and culture.
