Contributors

Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh

Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Daniel Heller

Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Monash University

Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Monash University Dr. Daniel Heller is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical, Philosophical and International Studies (Monash University). He has written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and teaches undergraduate units on the topic.

Dana El Kurd

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond Dana El Kurd holds a Ph.D. in government with concentrations in comparative politics and international relations, and has focused her work on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relations in these countries, and the impact of international intervention. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as PS Political Science & Politics, Journal of Global Security Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, Siyasat Arabiya (an Arabic peer-reviewed journal), Contemporary Arab Affairs, Parameters, and more. Her book titled Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine was published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. Theoretically, Dana is interested in the conflicts between states and their societies and the contentious politics they produce. She examines how authoritarian regimes try to implement policies and how external intervention may affect their success. Her research lies at the intersection of comparative and IR research, particularly with regards to international influence on regime development. Substantively, Dana is interested in international involvement and authoritarianism within the Arab world. Her multi-method research focuses on how authoritarian regimes in the Arab world have maintained durability, as well as the societal impact of this authoritarianism on political engagement. Topics of interest: the effect of international involvement on domestic politics, state-society relations, repression, political mobilization, strategies of authoritarianism, US foreign policy in the Middle East, Palestinian politics

David L Rudolph

Professor of Hydrogeology, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

Professor of Hydrogeology, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo I teach and conduct research in the field of regional hydrogeology with an emphasis on large scale groundwater supply systems for human and industrial use.

Daniel Lidar

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California Daniel Lidar holds the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics & Astronomy at USC, where he has been since July 2005. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley from 1997 to 2000. In 2000 he joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry with cross appointments in Physics and Mathematics, and was promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor in 2004. His research focuses on the control of quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on quantum information processing and computation. Lidar is the founding and current Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and the co-Director of the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Top Twenty Researchers under Age 40 (2002), Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (2003), Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (2009), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), and California Institute of Technology Moore Distinguished Scholar in Physics (2017). He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, 2007), the American Association of Advancement of Sciences (AAAS, 2012), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, 2014). He served a term as the Chair of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information. Lidar is the author or co-author of more than 250 technical research articles and holds six patents.

David Giles

Senior lecturer in Anthropology, Deakin University

Senior lecturer in Anthropology, Deakin University