Lecturer, Elizade University Helen Ufuoma Ugah holds a PhD in English language from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. She specialises in Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, as well as New Media Discourse, Political Discourse and Women’s Gender and Sexuality. As a self-motivated academic who is committed to female rights and empowerment, she strives to advocate for women through rigorous scholarship. Her research interest cuts across the intersections of gender and society as evident in diverse phenomena and different contexts of human communication. She is presently working on Nigerian women’s personal abortion narratives, and Nigerian women’s sexual agency and pleasure. She is a recipient of the Lagos Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper (2019). She teaches English language at Elizade University, Nigeria and is presently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Cluster Centre, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos.
Associate Disability Program, Grattan Institute Hannah Orban is an Associate in Grattan’s Disability Program. Hannah advocates for the equality of people with disability through evidence-based public policy that is led by the disability community. She brings her experience as a sibling to people with disabilities to her work, as well as her professional experience in the government and non-profit sectors. In Washington D.C., Hannah worked alongside leaders in disability policy in the U.S. as the Eileen Sweeney Graduate Intern in Disability Policy with the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Century Foundation’s Disability Economic Justice Team. Previously, Hannah worked as a research assistant in economics at the University of Michigan, and in public and disability policy in the NSW Department of Education. Hannah has a Master of Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the University of Michigan, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Philosophy from the University of Sydney.
Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, and Professor of Earth Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware Holly Michael is the Unidel Fraser Russell Chair in the Environment and Professor in the Departments of Earth Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. She is also Director of the Delaware Environmental Institute. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an Associate Editor of Water Resources Research and served as the Geological Society of America James B. Thompson, Jr. International Distinguished Lecturer. Her research interests include saltwater intrusion, water resource management, contaminant hydrology, coastal hydrogeology, groundwater-surface water interactions, and geostatistics. Some of her current projects include investigating the coastal critical zone, measuring groundwater flow into estuaries, modeling groundwater salinization due to climate change, evaluating sustainability of arsenic-safe groundwater in Bangladesh, and application of experimental economics to groundwater resources.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University Hyeran Jo is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University in U.S.A. She studies international institutions, international law, and civil conflicts. Her book, Compliant Rebels: Rebel Groups and International Law in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), won the Chadwick Alger Prize in 2016, the best book in the field of international organization, awarded by the International Studies Association. Her work can also be found in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, and Law and Contemporary Problems. Her research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Buffett Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
Senior Lecturer, Global Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow I am a global historian of economic and social history. I study the global dynamics of health and social welfare, cross-cultural translations of knowledge and professional categories, historical discrimination in health professions, and epidemics. My past, current and future research focuses on Africa in its Islamic, European, and global contexts between 1800 and the present, with a particular focus on Algeria. I hold PhD and MA degrees in History/History of Science from Princeton University (2014 and 2010), a diploma in Arabic language and culture from the American University in Cairo (2008), an AM degree in Regional Studies-Middle East from Harvard University (2005), and a BA Honours in Modern History from the University of Oxford (2002). I have been fortunate to live and study in Algeria, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Morocco, the UK, and the United States. I've worked at Harvard as an administrator, Oxford as a fixed-term lecturer, and at Glasgow in History and now in Economic and Social History. At Glasgow, I teach courses on innovation and the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East and North Africa. I enjoy collaborating with students and colleagues in Glasgow's Archives & Special Collections to run "global history hackathons". I am currently writing a book about hygienic surveillance in colonized Algeria. The book is based on study of handwritten and typed documents in Arabic and French used by Algerian medical auxiliaries. These sources reveal how racialized religious categories and managerial processes shaped the delivery of public health in Algeria. My other full-time jobs are being a Type 1 diabetic and a parent.
Specialist Scientist, Council for Geoscience Hayley Cawthra is a South African marine geologist who is employed as a specialist scientist at the Council for Geoscience, where she coordinates the offshore mapping programme, and a research associate in the Nelson Mandela University African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience. Her research interests include Pleistocene sea level, hydroacoustic mapping of continental shelves, reconstructing now-submerged and extinct landscapes, and human use of ancient coasts.
