Postdoctoral fellow at Queen's University's Centre for International Policy and Defence (CIDP), Queen's University, Ontario Dr. Emilie El Khoury is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for International Policy and Defence (CIDP) at Queen's University. Her primary area of expertise is anthropology, with a specific focus on terrorism and the Middle East. Her research encompasses a wide array of domains, including warfare, religion, politics, and their implications for topics such as terrorism, security, gender dynamics, and the processes leading to radicalization and violence. Her research undertaken within the CIDP concentrates on the comprehensive examination of the impact of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, their tactics, and their consequences on local populations, with a particular emphasis on women, in the context of NATO operations. Dr. El Khoury also holds the position of Senior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies (CIFRS).
Research Officer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Dr Elodie O'Connor has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing), Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, and PhD in Psychology. Elodie works as a Research Officer in the Centre for Community Child Health at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her research aims to reduce inequities in chilren's health, development and wellbeing.
Senior lecturer in Law, Brunel University London Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London, researching on human rights law, digital regulation and the impact of AI and emerging technologies on human rights. Author of Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Professor of Geography and Global Health, Macalester College Eric D. Carter is the Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he has taught since 2012. He received a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley (1994), and a Master's (1999) and PhD (2005) in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before joining the Macalester faculty, Carter taught at Millersville University (Pennsylvania) and Grinnell College (Iowa). He was also a visiting faculty member at the National University of Tucumán (Argentina) in 2015. Carter’s interdisciplinary research lies at the nexus between medical geography, political ecology, and the history of public health, with a regional focus on Latin America. Main areas of research interest include the political ecology of infectious and vector-borne diseases; environmental and social history of disease control; social medicine and public health in Latin America; and the biopolitics of public health interventions. His first book, Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina (2012), received the Elinor Melville Prize for best book in Latin American Environmental History from the Conference on Latin American History. His second book, In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine (2023) is the result of seven years of research, mainly in Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica, supported by fellowships from the US Fulbright Scholar Program and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Doctorante en histoire de l'architecture contemporaine, Centre Chastel, Sorbonne Université Élodie Bitsindou poursuit actuellement ses recherches en histoire de l’architecture contemporaine sous la direction de Jean-Baptiste Minnaert au sein du centre André Chastel, un laboratoire affilié à Sorbonne Université, au CNRS et au ministère de la Culture. Sa thèse en cours se concentre sur la création de "nouveaux-villages" pavillonnaires en France des années soixante à quatre-vingt. Elle y explore les dynamiques de l'habitat individuel en France à travers sa thèse intitulée "Logés à l’américaine : Émergence, évolution et perception de la maison individuelle en France. Histoire croisée autour de la firme Levitt And Sons (1962-1981)". Cette recherche offre un regard original sur l'évolution de la construction, de l'aménagement du territoire et des modes d'habiter à l'échelle nationale, européenne et mondiale. Précédemment, ses travaux de master portaient sur les réalisations de Ricardo Bofill dans les villes nouvelles franciliennes, marquant ainsi le début de ses études sur l’architecture et l’urbanisme du XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière portée à leur dimension utopique.
Associate Professor in AI and Society, Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethcis in AI, University of Oxford Ekaterina’s research interests lie at the intersection of digital sociology and family sociology. She leads the ESRC-funded DomesticAI project that scopes new technologies’ potential to free up time now locked into unpaid domestic labour and measures how willing people are to introduce these technologies into their private lives. First research findings offering predictions about the transformative potential of domestic automation have been published in PLOS ONE as The future(s) of unpaid work: How susceptible do experts from different backgrounds think the domestic sphere is to automation and Technological Forecasting and Social Change as The future of unpaid work: Estimating the effects of automation on time spent on housework and care work in Japan and the UK. Hertog’s earlier study of never-married single mothers in Japan that provides an in-depth analysis of Japanese women’s decision-making on childbearing issues and the related value systems was published as a book by Stanford University Press titled Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan. Her other research includes analyses of gender differences in time use in East Asia and an investigation of digital dating records from one of Japan’s largest matchmakers to scrutinise partner search processes, identifying the social factors that drive individual success and failure on the Japanese marriage market. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Marriage and Family, Demographic Research, and PLOS ONE.
