Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University Heidi Hausse is a historian of early modern Europe (c.1500-1700), with a particular interest in the intersections of culture, medicine, and technology. Her research interests include early modern surgery, prosthetics, and disability history. Her book, The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany, examines surgical treatises and artifacts of prostheses to uncover a transformation in the ways in which surgeons and artisans cut apart the human body through amputation and worked to artificially put it back together with mechanical limbs. Hausse received her PhD in history from Princeton University in 2016, and was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University from 2016-2018. She was also the 2016-2017 Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library. In 2018, Hausse joined the faculty at Auburn University. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and the Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung Foundation.
Associate Professor, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University and a co-lead of a research cluster. Harjit is an expert in management research and has conducted large-scale research projects in several areas, including sports and how sports fans behave and associate their behaviour with their team. Since becoming an academic, Harjit has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers. In developing his work, Harjit has collaborated with colleagues from across the globe.
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Tennessee Dr. Hoorsana Damavandi is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Marketing from Ivey Business School, Western University, specializing in quantitative marketing strategy. Hoorsana is primarily interested in phenomenon-driven research that is inspired by and speaks to the problems and opportunities that interest business managers. Broadly, her work centers around understanding how firms deal with adversity in their upstream and downstream relationships. She works on the substantive areas related to product quality failures and price increases, and uses econometrics, spatial and network analysis, machine learning, and experiments in her research.
Associate Professor in Marine Geology, The University of Queensland I am a marine geologist and oceanographer who studies the marine environment to understand past and present links between the ocean and climate, focussing on the carbon cycle.
Associate Professor, University of Denver As a political ecologist, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong’s research focuses on questions at the intersection of the human dimensions of global environmental change and sustainable agriculture and food systems. Much of his work is underpinned by participatory and long-term ethnographic research, with extensive field experiences in Ghana, Malawi, and Morocco. His current research focuses on climate change maladaptation and the politics of forest-based natural climate solutions. Prior work from 2012 to 2022 has focused on developing a political ecology understanding of food insecurity, undernutrition, diversified agroecological farming systems, and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. This long-term research has been done in close partnership with farmers to maximize the utility of results for social and political change. At the heart of his research is also a commitment to centering the voices of Indigenous people not only as sources of empirical knowledge, but also as producers of social science theory. He has done this using participatory GIS, bird’s-eye photovoice, social network diagramming, drone-based participatory mapping, environmental theatre, and social X-ray mapping.
Professor Emeritus, College of Business Administration, Ajou University Koo is an financial economist as well as a mathematician. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. He has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, US and at POSTECH and Ajou University in Korea. He has been studying portfolio choice models and their implications for asset pricing. He also a practical experience, having founded and managed FISTGlobal, Inc. The company was a leader in risk-management software and consulting company in Korea and has been succeeded by Metanet Fintech, Juro Instruments, and Tria. Koo is currently working on methodological development that help to automatize personal asset management.
