Contributors

Frank E. Vandervort

Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Frank E. Vandervort is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Félicien Faury

Postdoctorant, CESDIP, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay

Postdoctorant, CESDIP, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay Félicien Faury est politiste et sociologue, docteur en science politique et postdoctorant au Cesdip (Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales). Ses travaux portent sur l'extrême droite française, les partis politiques, le vote, les processus de politisation. Il a récemment publié : - Des électeurs ordinaires. Enquête sur la normalisation de l'extrême droite, Seuil, 2024 - (avec Elisa Bellè), "Going Local, Going Mainstream? Ethnographic Study of Two French Cities Governed by the Rassemblement National", Government and Opposition, 2024:1-16. - « Race et extrême droite. Réflexions sur les conditions raciales d’une recherche sur le Rassemblement national », Marronnages, vol. 2, n°1, 2023, p. 37-52 - (en codirection avec Safia Dahani, Estelle Delaine, Guillaume Letourneur) Sociologie politique du Rassemblement national. Enquêtes de terrain, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2023. - “Everyday gendered Islamophobia: exploring ordinary attitudes toward Muslim women in Southern France”, Gender, Place & Culture, 2023 - « Extrême droite partisane et rôles municipaux. Le travail de représentation d’élus municipaux du Front National », Pôle Sud, 2021/1 (54), p. 139-153 - (avec Guillaume Letourneur) « Un culte du chef ? Culture militaire et verticalité organisationnelle au Front national », Revue française de science politique, 2020/3 (70), p. 399-420

Freddie Daley

Research Associate, Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex

Research Associate, Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex Freddie Daley is a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy University of Sussex and research and communications lead on the SUS-POL project. He is co-author of the book Changing Our Ways: Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis and articles in the journals Earth Systems Governance, Global Sustainability and Energy Research and Social Science.

Fritz Holznagel

Quizmaster, The Conversation

Quizmaster, The Conversation Fritz Holznagel is a professional writer and fun fact fanatic. He is the 1995 winner of the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, co-founder of the biographical database Who2, and winner of an Emmy Award for scripting the CBS animated special "A Claymation Easter Celebration." He is also the author of books including "The Ultimate Droodles Compendium" and "Secrets of the Buzzer." He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and several backyard bunnies.

Frédéric Schmidt

Professeur, géologie des surfaces planétaires, Université Paris-Saclay

Professeur, géologie des surfaces planétaires, Université Paris-Saclay Frédéric Schmidt est enseignant-chercheur, spécialiste des surfaces planétaires. Il étudie les échanges de molécules volatiles entre surface et atmosphère sur Mars et les glaces dans le Système Solaire.

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco

Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Dr Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO (Ph.D. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 2011) is, currently, an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Department of Applied Linguistics (LNG), Suzhou, China, where he teaches Historical Linguistics (LNG307), Language Documentation (LNG210), and History of English (LNG105). Before joining XJTLU, he was a Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at the Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Programme (LMS), School of Humanities (SoH), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CoHASS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he was teaching Historical Linguistics, Etymology, Language and Oral Tradition, Historical Semantics, and History of Cryptography. At NTU, he was also the Latin Language Lead Coordinator at the Centre for Modern Languages (CML). He got his Master of Arts in Classical Philology and Historical Linguistics (with a Dissertation on the History of the Latin Language) and his PhD in Historical Linguistics, Greek and Latin Philology and Literature, and Comparative Literature (with a Dissertation on the Historical Development of the Late Latin Language and Poetry) at the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), working with Prof. Claudio M. Moreschini and Prof. Maria G. Arcamone. His Research expertise and interests are mainly focused on Historical Linguistics, on the etymological reconstruction of Indo-European (prehistoric) place names (Historical Toponomastics), on the study of Aegean Civilizations and Scripts, on the documentation of languages from South-East Asia belonging, in particular, to the Papuan and Austronesian families, and on the History of Cryptology and Crypto-linguistics. His academic background includes also Comparative Literature, Classical Philology, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Geography, and Paleoanthropology. He has mainly studied, in these fields, Contemporary Western Poetry and the parodic Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, oral (Homeric) Literature in Ancient Greece, the History of Greek and Roman Medicine and Medical Literature, the relations between landscape and the naming process of place names, and the prehistory of languages in Europe and Asia. An Etymologist and Historian of Languages, he has developed Research work in Historical Linguistics and Mycenaeology at the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) and he has taught, as a Contract Professor, Comparative Literature and History of Greek and Roman Medical Literature at the International University of Pollenzo - UNISG (Pollenzo, Italy). He has published around 80 Research works (papers, books, conference talks, book reviews, and chapters in academic books) and he is the first Author of the academic handbook Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics (2023), published by the Cambridge University Press. In the field of Indo-European Linguistics, he has developed the so-called New Convergence Theory (NCT) on Indo-European origins, working, among others, with Dr Guido Borghi (University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy) and Prof. Martin Bernal. He is the recipient of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), School of Humanities (SoH), Lecturers Excellence (LEX) Award 2018 (Best Lecturer). Francesco is an Academic Mentor and Reviewer at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), where he is also a Member of the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP). Academic Profile: https://scholar.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/persons/FrancescoPerono