Contributors

Elizabeth Dennett

Associate Professor in Surgery, University of Otago

Associate Professor in Surgery, University of Otago In addition to my clinical practice, I am involved in research into disparities in cancer outcomes, patient experiences of their cancer journey and identification of novel biomarkers to improve treatment and prognostication for colorectal cancer.

Emily Ireland

Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool

Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool Emily is a lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. Emily’s research interests are in eighteenth and nineteenth-century legal history, particularly socio-legal and feminist histories of the criminal law, equity, and family law. She is interested in how subordinated peoples have negotiated the law over time. Emily is the author of a growing number of publications on eighteenth and nineteenth-century women and the law. As part of her work on the Australian Research Council funded ‘A New History of the Law in Post-Revolutionary England’ project (a collaboration between the Universities of Adelaide and Liverpool), she is currently drafting chapters on gender and the law and legal personhood for the Oxford History of the Laws: Volume IX. As part of her commitment to expanding the reach and inclusivity of legal history, Emily is co-director of Selden's Sister, a network for women in legal history, and the Northern Legal History Group, a research initiative based in the North West of England.

Emma Palmer-Cooper

Lecturer in Psychology, Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, University of Southampton

Lecturer in Psychology, Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, University of Southampton Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper is a Lecturer in Psychology within the Centre for Innovation in Mental Health. My research primarily focuses on self-awareness in relation to mental health and related thought processes, psychological wellbeing, and creativity. I have a focus on developing digital interventions (eHealth) for mental health support, and understanding user attitudes towards AI. I am also interested in Public Engagement, involving patients and the public in the design and communication of psychological and healthcare research.

Edlin Veras

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black studies, Swarthmore College

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black studies, Swarthmore College My name is Dr. Edlin Veras. I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black studies at Swarthmore College where I conduct research on and teach about anti-Blackness, and migration in the US and Caribbean. I earned my PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of South Florida in 2021. My work has been supported by the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program. I have been actively engaged in research on Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic since 2017. I have been published in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and am currently finishing my book manuscript on Haitian Migrant Laborers in Dominican Republic’s northern coast.

Erin Cooper-Douglas

Deputy Politics + Society Editor

Deputy Politics + Society Editor Erin joined The Conversation after working across radio, television and online media at ABC News for more than six years. In her time with the national broadcaster, she won Best New Journalist at the Tasmanian Media Awards for her multiplatform work, including video-journalism. She did everything from presenting live radio to sub-editing digital stories. Her work has also been published by Reuters, The New York Times and The Mercury. Erin's based in Hobart, Tasmania.

Edward Sugden

Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London

Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London He researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature in its most capacious designations. His first book Emergent Worlds was published by New York University Press in 2018. He edited an essay collection entitled Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, which appeared on Edinburgh University Press in 2022. He is currently writing a biography of Moby-Dick.