Contributors

Freeden Blume Oeur

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University I study masculine power, neoliberalism, feminist theory, and Black politics. My forthcoming book, Black Boys Apart, uses the case study of single-sex public schools to show how neoliberal ideologies and respectability politics are transforming Black manhood.

Fiona Leverick

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow Fiona Leverick is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Glasgow. She was a member of the team that undertook the Scottish Jury Research, a major study of mock jury decision making funded by the Scottish Government which has informed the debate over the abolition of the not proven verdict. Fiona Leverick has authored three books on criminal law: the fourth edition of Gerald Gordon’s The Criminal Law of Scotland (with James Chalmers, SULI/W. Green, 2023); Killing in Self-Defence (Oxford University Press, 2006); and Criminal Defences and Pleas in Bar of Trial (with James Chalmers, SULI/W. Green, 2006). She has published over 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and has provided policy advice on the prosecution of sexual offences in the UK and elsewhere.

Felicity Castagna

Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University

Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University Felicity Castagna has published four novels for adults and young adults including her most recent book, Girls In Boys’ Cars which received The Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for YA and is now being adapted for stage and screen. Her previous novel, No More Boats was a finalist in the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Awards and is published internationally by Europa. Her young adult novel The Incredible Here and received The Prime Minister’s Award for Young Adult Literature as well as the IBBY Award and was a finalist in several other awards including the CBCA Book of the Year Award. She has worked with artists in many different fields to produce work for The Sydney Opera House, The Sydney Festival, The National Theatre of Parramatta, The Four Winds Festival and many other places as well as with The Finishing School Collective. Her creative non-fiction and critical responses to literature, art and home are published both here and internationally on platforms such as The Sydney Review of Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Griffith Review and ABC radio and television. Castagna is a highly experienced teacher, speaker, writing mentor and teacher educator who has facilitated workshops everywhere from schools to community arts centres to correctional centres and has helped to establish, promote and run many writing and storytelling programs. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University.

Floyd W. Shockley

Entomologist and Collections Manager, Smithsonian Institution

Entomologist and Collections Manager, Smithsonian Institution I oversee all aspects of collection management, logistics, purchasing and property management for the Department of Entomology, providing oversight of the National Insect Collection (100,000+ type specimens, 35 million+ specimens) and interacting with staff from the three agencies and 4 units that comprise the Combined Entomology Department (SI, USDA-SEL, USDA-APHIS, and DoD-WRBU). My research interests focus on the taxonomy and systematics of fungus feeding beetles. I reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of Endomychidae using cladistics, likelihood and Bayesian techniques incorporating both morphological and molecular evidence, and use the resulting evolutionary hypotheses to explore patterns of change in physical, behavioral, and ecological characteristics.

Fabio Silva

Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Modelling, Bournemouth University

Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Modelling, Bournemouth University I am Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Modelling at Bournemouth University and co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology. My research interest is how societies perceive and conceive their world(s) and used that to time and adjust social, productive and magico-religious behaviours, especially in prehistory. My research interests steered me along two distinct yet complementary strands: archaeological modelling and skyscape archaeology. The first strand involves the modelling and analysis of cultural- and environmental-dependent dispersal dynamics, especially across large spatial and temporal scales. Large-scale dispersals have been a staple of archaeological research from its inception (e.g. spread of early hominids out of Africa, spread of domesticated crops and animals). I am especially interested in exploring them through the recovery of their dynamics (modes and routes of dispersal) via statistical analysis of chronometric, material and palaeoenvironmental data. This requires lateral thinking with innovative computational approaches that, nevertheless, are acutely aware of the nature, uncertainties and other limitations of the available data. The second strand focuses on more regional scales and explores the skyscape archaeology of late prehistoric monuments. Structures such as Stonehenge in Wiltshire and Newgrange in Ireland are famous for having had celestial alignments encoded into their architecture. There is much speculation surrounding their intent, purpose and meaning, with interpretations often blurring the lines between scholarship and fantasy. On this front, I am not so interested in identifying and collecting celestial alignments but in understanding how they can help us peek into the ontologies of past societies, i.e. into how they conceived the world and their place in it. This takes careful, robust and reflexive approaches to the archaeological record – both qualitative and quantitative – which I am keen to not only explore but also develop.

Fern R. Hauck

Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia

Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Fern R. Hauck, MD, MS is currently the Spencer P. Bass, MD, Twenty-First Century Professor of Family Medicine and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is also the director of the International Family Medicine Clinic at UVA. Dr. Hauck's primary research focuses on sudden unexpected infant death, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). She has studied risk factors for SIDS and other unexpected infant deaths, especially focusing on African-American and other minority communities. She has also studied bedsharing practices cross culturally and preventive strategies, such as pacifier use. An important theme of Dr. Hauck's research is eliminating disparities in health services and outcomes. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on SIDS and is an advisor to several other organizations and federal agencies that focus on infant health and safety. Her other professional passion is global health and caring for refugees. She started the International Family Medicine Clinic in 2002, which serves the refugee population of Charlottesville.