Contributors

Guusje Haver

PhD Candidate, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

PhD Candidate, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet Guusje Haver is a medical doctor and PhD candidate at Karolinska institutet, working on a large randomized controlled trial using psilocybin in depression.

Gracsious Maviza

Gender and Migration Scientist; Regional Lead for Southern Africa in the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Team, CGIAR System Organization

Gender and Migration Scientist; Regional Lead for Southern Africa in the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Team, CGIAR System Organization I am a gender and migration climate security scientist and the regional lead for southern Africa within the CGIAR Focus Climate Security team at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. I am also a research associate with the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. I am a qualitative researcher with expertise in gender, migration and livelihoods. At the Alliance, I coordinate and conduct research on gender, inequality, migration, climate, conflict, and peacebuilding for climate security within the CGIAR Focus Climate Security team. I ensure the integration of gender into the climate security team’s work to ensure it is gender sensitive and, at best, transformative. I am currently working on the ‘Building Systematic Resilience against climate variability and extremes (ClimBer)’ and the ‘Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM)’ initiatives to ensure the climate security work within the initiatives is aware of and addresses sociocultural norms and values that perpetuate vulnerability. The aim is to promote social equity and ensure positive benefits for all people across various food, land, and water systems. I lead the development of the migration strategy and the rollout of the FCM initiative in southern Africa and provide thematic support in other regions. The migration research seeks to understand mobility and forced climate migration, its drivers and impacts at the destination, unveiling the climate conflict-migration nexus. I hold a BSc Honours degree in sociology from the University of Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe), a Master of Arts in development studies from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Hague, The Netherlands) and a PhD in development studies from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). Before joining the Alliance, I was a research fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (IDS-NUST) in Zimbabwe. I researched several socio-economic issues, including migration, gender and inclusion, livelihoods, and local development strategies, on which I have several publications. I also co-founded the Southern Women Academics Forum (SWAN), a network inspired by my experiences and struggles as an early career woman, which seeks to make academia a viable career choice for women through various initiatives.

Gordon Lister

Visiting Professor, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland

Visiting Professor, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Structural Geology, Geophysics, Seismotectonics, Tectonics, Economic Geology

Giang Nguyen-Dien

Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture Studies, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture Studies, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Giang Nguyen-Dien's book project examines explores the afterlives of the Vietnam War through emotional textures of refugee experiences. Situated in a larger scholarship of the haunting of U.S. militarism in Asia-Pacific and the affective afterlives of the Cold War politics, this project emphasizes how the history of empire-building, nation-building, and war-making is also a history of affective cultivation. Through refugee feelings, this work seeks to imagine a new politics of affective decolonization that rests on shared compassions for the ghosts of those who died unjust deaths across multiple geographies of violence.

Gabriel Paxton

PhD Candidate, Boston University

PhD Candidate, Boston University Gabriel Paxton is a PhD candidate in the Religion in Philosophy, Politics, and Society area of specialization at Boston University. He graduated from Winthrop University with a B.A. in Political Science and earned his M.A. with distinction from Central European University in Nationalism Studies. His research interests include religious nationalism, populism, and the study of global progressive and left-wing political movements. Currently, his research looks at the history of left-liberal Christian politics in Canada and the United States during the early 20th century. Aside from his studies, Gabriel has also worked on numerous political campaigns in both the United States and Canada. He has also taught courses in American government and history at Winthrop University. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing, hiking, and traveling.

Graeme Mack

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond Graeme Mack is a historian, writer, and teacher based in Virginia. Currently, Dr. Mack serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on Early America, Antebellum and Civil War America, and the American Presidency, and continues work on his book, Seaborne Sovereignties, which examines American merchants and U.S. officials' efforts to expand American commercial and political influence over strategically important spaces in the Pacific, and considers the ways in which international and multiracial labor forces that manned their vessels both disrupted and reinforced these state-business ambitions. In addition to his Ph.D., Dr. Mack also holds a B.A. in History from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in History from McGill University. His writing has also been featured in the Washington Post’s “Made By History” series, the Journal of San Diego History, and H-Net. Dr. Mack’s work has been supported by fellowships and grants issued by Jefferson Library (Monticello), the Huntington Library, the Virginia Academic Library Consortium, the Harvard Business School, the Tinker Foundation, the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians.