Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Exeter Ellen Wiles's new novel, The Unexpected, will be published by HarperCollins on 21 November 2024. She is the author of three previous books: The Invisible Crowd (HarperCollins, 2017); Live Literature: the experience and cultural value of literary performance events from salons to festivals (Palgrave, 2021); and Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition (Columbia University Press, 2015). She also writes literary reviews, articles, and short fiction. As a sound artist, Ellen is regularly commissioned to make immersive literary audio work exploring nature and landscape, working with organisations such as The National Trust. Ellen works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, where she is also currently an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste. She has previously worked as a barrister and as a musician. She has a PhD in literary anthropology, Masters degrees in Human Rights Law and in Creative Writing, and an undergraduate degree in Music from Oxford where she was awarded the top First. She lives in Devon with her family.
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History, University of Sheffield I joined the University of Sheffield in September 2014. I hold an MSc in European Politics and Governance and a PhD in International History, both from LSE. I have held a A.G. Leventis Fellowship at SEESOX, St Anthony's College, Oxford (2014-15), a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence (2013-14) and a Pinto Postdoctoral fellowship at LSE IDEAS (2011-12). Before moving to Sheffield, I was a Lecturer of European Studies and History at Yale University and in 2019-2021, I was a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Tampere, Finland. My first book Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979: The Second Enlargement reveals the rationale behind Europe's decision to accept Greece in its circle and details the dynamics of the accession negotiations in the evolving environment of detente and the rise of the Left in Southern Europe. I am an expert in the history of European integration, Cold War, political and social history of Modern Greece, and Southern Europe. My second project focused on peace movements and the role of activism in nuclear policy. I was Principal Investigator of the two-year project (2016-2018), 'Protest as democratic practice: peace movements in southern Europe, 1975-1990' (Max Batley Fellowship Awards scheme) with Prof Ziemann and Prof Grasso (Politics). Dr Giulia Quaggio was the Postdoctoral fellow of the project. I published different pieces in International History Review, Journal of Contemporary History and Cold War History. Along with Luc-Andre Brunet we are running an AHRC networking grant (2022-2024) on ‘Global Histories of anti-nuclear activism in the Cold War’. We have published a special issue on Anti-nuclear activism in South Africa, and an edited volume Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of anti-nuclear activis (Berghahn, 2025), accompanied by a Open Learn MOOC on the same topic. My latest research looks at the role of tourism as an alternative way of telling Greece’s post-war social, economic and cultural history, and I am cooperating with visual arts and heritage experts, as well as graphic designers and architects to build a Digital Exhibition on ‘Imagining Greece’.
Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University Dr. Albarrán teaches courses in modern Latin American history, specializing in themes of comparative histories of childhood (Latin American, world, and Cold War), revolutions, popular culture, and capitalism. She was awarded the Conference of Latin American Historians Teaching Award in 2024, and the Miami University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Educator Award in 2020. As a scholar, Dr. Albarrán is a cultural historian of twentieth-century Mexico and the history of childhood. She is the author of Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas (Brill 2024), and Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism (Univerisity of Nebraska Press 2015). She is co-editor and contributor to the volume Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2012). She has examined the methodological challenges faced by childhood scholars through a critical analysis of her own childhood diary in a chapter contribution to the volume Children as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Approaches to Research in a Global Context (Palgrave MacMillan 2021). Her research on the intersections of national and transitional youth identities through the Mexican Boy Scouts appears in the volume Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave MacMillan 2015). Her work on the rhetorical construction of the proletarian child in Mexico as a national ideal was published as a chapter in the collection Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power (University of Arizona Press 2015). Albarrán is a founding member of the Latin American childhood scholars' network Red de Historiadores de las Infancias de América Latina (REHIAL). Her long-term collaborations with scholars of childhood are reflected in her contributions to the collection Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, and Agents: Approaches to Research in a Global Contex (Palgrave MacMillan 2021: the edited volume Infâncias y juventudes no século XX: histórias latino-americanas (Editora Todapalavra, 2018); and the multivalent project Re-Connect/Re-Collect (University of Tampere, Finland, ongoing.)
Gynecologist & Associate Professor, University of Calgary I am a practicing Urogynecologist and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. My clinical practice focuses on surgical gynecology and the treatment of pelvic floor conditions (pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, voiding difficulties). I have an active research portfolio related to female reproductive health, which utilizes multiple methodologies such as primary data collection in clinical research, population and cohort based epidemiologic methods, as well as qualitative studies.
Associate Professor, University of Pretoria Eugene Lee Davids is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on adolescent and emerging adult health.
