Contributors

Danielle McLean

Freelance Reporter and Editor, The Conversation

Freelance Reporter and Editor, The Conversation Danielle McLean is an award-winning freelance reporter and editor. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post's The Lily, CNN, and Higher Ed Dive.

Daniel Tichenor

Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon Daniel Tichenor is a Philip H. Knight Chair, a professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. His research focuses on immigration and refugee policy, social movements, the American presidency, Congress, political parties, and youth politics. He has published seven books and more than 80 journal articles and book chapters. His books include Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control (Princeton University Press), Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics (University of Chicago Press), with Sidney Milkis, and Democracy’s Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency (Oxford University Press), with Alison Gash. His forthcoming book is Unsettled: Governing Immigration in a Polarized Nation (Princeton University Press). His research awards include the American Political Science Association’s Gladys Kammerer Award, Jack Walker Prize, Mary Parker Follette Award, Polity Prize, and Charles Redd Award. He has been a fellow at Princeton’s School of Policy and International Affairs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Abba Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and a research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He was named to the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015. He is the recipient of the A.J. Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the 2020 Williams Fellowship for “exceptional and innovative teaching.” He has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration reform and history, and provided commentary and essays for National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Utne Reader, and The Nation.

Diego Leiva

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith University

Dimitris Stamatellos

Associate Professor in Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire

Associate Professor in Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire "Theoretical Star formation & Exoplanets" group. His work is mainly theoretical and computational, focusing on the study of the earliest stages of star and planet formation. He teaches a variety of courses (Astrobiology, Stellar Structure & Evolution, Fluid Dynamics) for the Physics, Astrophysics and Mathematics degrees. Dr Stamatellos' group performs hydrodynamic simulations of star and planet formation using supercomputing facilities locally at UCLan and nationally. He has published more than 60 refereed publications (19 first author) that have attracted more than ~ 4000 citations. He is well known for his research on disc fragmentation and on brown dwarf formation. He has strong experience in analysing and visualising large amounts of computational data, programming within an astronomical context, developing of computational models, and using high-performance computing. He is particularly interested in computational methods and their applications in astrophysics. He has developed an efficient method to capture the thermal and radiative effects in hydrodynamic simulations, that has been used by other groups around the world (e.g. Edinburgh, St Andrews, Beijing, Sheffield, London, Cologne, Munich). Dr Stamatellos has a strong record of student supervision (undergraduate and postgraduate students) and significant teaching experience. He has also established collaborations with East and Southeast Asian countries (China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam). He has been awarded two Royal Society International Exchanges Awards (for Japan and S. Korea).

Daniel Drage

Lecturer in Environmental Health, University of Birmingham

Lecturer in Environmental Health, University of Birmingham Daniel finished his BSc in Environmental Science in 2009 at the University of Birmingham where he focused his final year on in-stream ecology and environmental chemistry. He remained at Birmingham to study for his PhD, which was awarded in 2013. He investigated the presence of brominated flame retardants and by-product emissions in the steel industry and their fate in the environment – which resulted in several publications in high impact scientific journal Upon receiving his PhD he accepted a job as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Here he worked on several projects including the modelling of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and emerging contaminants in wastewater and landfills. Since returning to the University of Birmingham, Daniel has worked on a range of projects funded by the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland – including WAFER, SAFER and FUEL which have investigated brominated flame retardants (BFRs), organophosphorus flame retardants and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in the waste industry, as well as ELEVATE which investigated human exposure to BFRs and PFAS in indoor environments. Daniel is currently the Programme Lead for MSc Environmental Health and MSc Public and Environmental Health Sciences, both accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH). He is involved in teaching on these programmes as well as the MSc Health, Safety and Environment Management; and BSc Environmental Science. Daniel is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (MCIEH), holds a postgraduate certificate in higher education (PGCHE) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

David Mitterauer

PhD Candidate, English, and Research Assistant, Western University

PhD Candidate, English, and Research Assistant, Western University I am a PhD Candidate in English who specializes in early American literature and early Black writing. My interests revolve around eighteenth-century transatlantic literary discourses, particularly the many ways how romance as a genre or literary mode crisscrosses the Atlantic. My dissertation is on interiority in slave narratives and early Black fiction. That is, I am interested in the inner life which Black writers reveal in their testimonies of enslavement, particularly how we can glimpse specific joys and pleasures (and which they choose to keep private) that sustain them in their struggles for freedom. In my work as a graduate student, I have gained substantial experience in archival work on Black history in southern Ontario.