Director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona Dr. Graizbord is S. D. Curson Professor of Judaic Studies. A historian of early modern Jews, Dr. Graizbord's research focuses on the Western Sephardi Diaspora of the seventeenth century. In particular, Dr. Graizbord's writing approaches questions of religious, social, and political identity as these questions shaped the lives of so-called "New Christians" or "conversos" from the Iberian Peninsula who became Jews in exile. He has also written about Judeophobia and the culture of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions; marginality and dissidence in Jewish and Ibero-Catholic societies of the seventeenth century; ethnicity and religion among Sephardim from medieval times to the 1700s; and converso trading networks in the Atlantic. More recently he has published on Jewish ethnic identity and Zionism among American Jews. His forthcoming book, an anthology, is entitlted _Early Modern Jewish Civilization: Unity and DIversity in a Diasporic Society_ (Routledge).
Senior Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison Derek is a Senior Staff Attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining the Initiative, Derek was a partner at the law firm of McTigue Colombo & Clinger in Columbus, Ohio, where his practice focused on federal, state, and local election laws, campaign finance, statewide and local ballot initiatives and referenda, voting rights, ballot access, and government transparency. Derek received his bachelor's degree in Middle East studies and political science and his law degree from the Ohio State University. While in law school, he was an intern with the ACLU Voting Rights Project and the Campaign Legal Center. Before practicing law, Derek worked in the communications department of the Ohio Secretary of State's office and also worked for several federal, state, and local political campaigns in Ohio.
Professor of Philosophy, Dominican University Drew M. Dalton is a Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Leuven (BE) through a partnership with both the Husserl Archives and the Center for Social and Political Philosophy. His research and teaching interests are primarily in Phenomenology, German Idealism, Speculative Materialism, and Psychoanalysis especially as they address questions of lasting social, political, and ethical concern. His first book, "Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire," (Duquesne University Press, 2009) integrated these interests through an extended exploration of the roots and implications of Emmanuel Levinas' concept of desire, especially as it relates to the emergence of ethical concern and informs our understanding of the origins of social conflict. His last book, "The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute," (Bloomsbury, 2018), extended this research by examining the concept of the absolute in ethical decision making and exploring its role in the problem of evil. In addition to these longer works, Dalton has published a number of shorter works in various philosophical and interdisciplinary journals including: Philosophy Today, Angelaki, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Phenomenological Inquiry, Idealistic Studies, Studia Phaenomenologica, Open Philosophy, and others. In addition to his academic interests, Dalton is also an amateur jazz guitarist and an avid middle to long distance runner. He also harbors an abiding love for modern architecture, street art, vintage stereo equipment, oatmeal cookies, and the Marx Brothers.
Lecturer in Intelligence, Security and Policing, School of Criminology, University of Hull I teach Intelligence, Policing, and Security in the Department of Criminology at Hull. I have a PhD in Intelligence Studies from the University of Leicester. I am the author of the book “India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block” published by Routledge, which is the first academic work on India’s foreign intelligence culture. Most of my research work is on strategic intelligence for foreign policymaking, military planning, and conflict management. I also wrote the state intelligence training manual of Karnataka state police and conducted training courses in counterterrorism and counter-radicalisation.
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Auckland Dulani has industrial experience in trading and building trading models at Hedge Funds in the U.K. and conducts consulting activities on Bank Risk Management, Data Governance and FinTech. Her research areas include banking, social media, machine learning, technology in education, blockchains and cryptocurrencies. She is particularly interested in applying artificial intelligence-based technologies to solve socio-economic problems in finance, education, health, and the environment.
