Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Delaware Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over sixty academic articles and book chapters on the content, psychology, and effects of political information, satire, and misinformation [Go to CV]. Her book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laugher in the U.S. examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press, 2020: here). Her current book project, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation with JHU Press is available for preorder and will be published in fall 2023. Dr. Young's 2020 TED Talk explaining how our psychology shapes our politics, and how media exploit these relationships, has been viewed over 1.9 Million times. She publishes extensively in the popular press with essays and Op-eds in outlets including Vox.com, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC News, NPR, and various national and international podcasts. As of 2020, her research has been cited in over 70 popular press articles, news stories, and interviews at such outlets as The Washington Post, USA Today, Politico, Christian Science Monitor, Variety, the New York Times, the Atlantic, PBS, Slate, and Vox. Her popular University of Delaware course "Propaganda and Persuasion" was released by The Great Courses in 2023. In recognition of her public facing work, in 2021, Dr. Young became the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Robert M. Entman Award in Democracy and Political Communication from the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University. Young is a Research Fellow with the University of Delaware's Center for Political Communication and was awarded the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014. She holds affiliations with the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center and the University of Arizona's National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD), where she co-edited of "A Crisis of Civility: Political Discourse and its Discontents" (Routledge, 2018).
Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania Western University With his trademark high energy, vast academic knowledge and inquiry-based pedagogy, Dr. David Hurd has gained a reputation as one of the region’s most engaging professors. A two-time recipient of the Educator of the Year Award at PennWest Edinboro, Dr. Hurd is consistently nominated for a multitude of awards and was awarded the Emmons Award through the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. This is a highly prestigious award recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievement in the teaching of college-level introductory astronomy for non-science majors. Hurd also delivered the keynote address to the first and only national conference of planetarians in St. Louis in 2017. In addition to his invaluable contributions in the classroom, Dr. Hurd manages the PennWest Edinboro Planetarium and provides the local community with interactive and engaging live and online planetarium programs. Every year, thousands of K-12 and general public participants visit the planetarium for educational programming. The planetarium has received national recognition for Dr. Hurd’s inclusion of all learners in STEM objectives. Considered a pioneer in the field, he has dedicated the last 20 years to producing and implementing tactile astronomy materials for the blind and has facilitated workshops on teaching astronomy to the visually impaired.
Professor of Political Cinemas, University of Glasgow David is Professor of Political Cinemas in the University of Glasgow's School of Culture and Creative Arts. His publications include The war that won’t die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema (2012), Tracking Loach: Politics ǀ Practices ǀ Production (2022) and many essays on film, film culture and radical cultural activity. He has long been interested in the relationship between art and history. He is the Series Editor of the Edinburgh University Press Political Cinemas Series, sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Class and Culture, Media Practice and Education and New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and is a member of the Radical Film Network international steering committee. David is currently making films with Núria Araüna Baró under the banner ‘Ragged Cinema’, writing songs for and performing with The Tenementals, and is researcher-in-residence at The Revelator Wall of Death. In recent years, David has been exploring what he has termed 'scholastical consciousness', that is, an awareness of the form of academic outputs. This work, which has consisted of a wide variety of artistic outputs, including film, performance, song, music video and creative writing, seeks to disturb the binary between academic and artistic research, and to explore how non-normative forms of knowledge production might enrich the academy.
Associate Professor, Political Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland Professor Panagos is a specialist in the study of contemporary political philosophy and Aboriginal rights, with research contributions combining both normative and empirical concerns. He has published work on aboriginality, Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal voting behaviour and resource governance. He is currently working on a monograph on settler states, Aboriginal peoples and the problem of political obligation. he is also engaged in a number of collaborative research projects focused on, first, First Nations and the governance of mineral resources in Canada, and, second, the participation of Aboriginal peoples in elections in Canada and the United States.
Lecturer in Sociology, Trinity College Douglas' research focuses on student access and success in higher education, specifically at community colleges. His published work discusses alternatives to college remedial placement, the role of mathematics in post-secondary education, and college and career pathways in STEM. He is also interested in the non-degree routes to workforce development. Douglas has worked on research and evaluation for the US Department of Education, US Department of Labor, and National Science Foundation. He has also partnered with the non-profit advocacy group Complete College America.
Contract Faculty, Communication & Media Studies, York University, Canada Derek Hrynyshyn teaches in the Deparment of Politics and the Department of Communication Studies at York University. He is author of Limits of the Digital Revolution (Praeger 2017).
