Professor of Folklore, Cape Breton University Ian Brodie is folklorist, and author of "A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-up Comedy." He researches the intersection of folk culture and mass media, ranging from local radio song contests to the supernatural in children’s television. Ian currently serves as the President-Elect of both the Folklore Studies Association of Canada and the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University My students and I are working on water quality and public health issues. We study the fate of pathogens in the built environment and in natural systems. Since 2017, our research focuses on environmental surveillance approaches for prediction of outbreaks.
Associate Professor in Business Analytics, University of Bradford Dr. Irfan Mehmood serves as an Associate Professor in Business Analytics at the University of Bradford. His research interests span across vision AI, business data analytics, machine learning, and responsible AI. In addition to contributing to prominent peer-reviewed journals like the International Journal of Information Management and Future Generation Computer Systems, Dr. Mehmood actively engages in scholarly endeavours.
Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Melbourne My research interests combine the worlds of behavioural ecology and macroevolution. I am passionate about understanding the evolution of animal behaviours and the adaptations that animals have to their habitat. Why have these strategies evolved? How do they affect the evolutionary destiny of the species? For most of my research I combine work in the field, laboratory or museum with broad-scale comparative analyses. This integrative approach allows us to understand in depth the evolutionary drivers of the diversity of forms and colours we see in nature.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College Isaac Kamola is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. His research examines the political economy of higher education, critical globalization studies, and African anticolonial theory. He is author of Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, 2021) and Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019). His scholarly work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Millennium, Journal of Academic Freedom, African Identities, Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Third World Quarterly, Alternatives, Cultural Politics, Polygraph, and Transitions as well as numerous edited volumes. Isaac is the creator of Faculty First Responders, a program that monitors right-wing attacks on academics and provides resources to help faculty members and administrators respond to manufactured outrage. And he currently serves as the director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University Ian Sue Wing is Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. He conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economic adjustment to policy and natural environmental shocks. His current research focuses on characterizing the broader economic consequences of climate change impacts in a variety of areas (energy systems, agriculture and forestry, and human health), assessing the implications for society's capacity to mitigate future emissions of greenhouse gases, and simulating the regional economic impacts of natural disasters. Much of this work involves articulating the structural linkages between CGE models and econometric models of climate impacts, or bottom-up science- or engineering-based process simulations of energy systems, agro-ecosystems, and natural hazards. He has been supported by grants from the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation. He has been a member of advisory and review panels for the DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Research Council and NSF, and served as a contributing author to the IPCC AR5 and the Third National Climate Assessment.
