Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, Media and American Studies, University of East Anglia As an undergraduate Dr Fear-Segal studied at the University of East Anglia and as a postgraduate at University College London and Harvard University. She spent two separate years as a visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris teaching American Civilization, and also a brief stint as a script writer for the BBC World Service. She spent the academic year, 1999-2000, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania , on an academic teaching exchange with Professor Amy Farrell. The nineteenth and early twentieth century have been my main focus, but land disputes, education, missionary activity, and issues of identity interest me in all periods. Her areas of expertise include American Indian/Native American affairs in the USA, with a specialism in modern events and 19th-century Indian boarding schools and education; American West; immigration and the process of Americanisation; race and racism in the USA; visual culture, in particular photography.
Senior Research Officer in Health Data Science, Swansea University I am a Senior Research Officer in Swansea Trials Unit and have over 20 years’ experience in project, trial and data management across a range of subjects including emergency care, access to healthcare, dementia and skin. I have always been interested in prevention of ill health and access to healthcare. I obtained my PhD from Swansea University in 2014, exploring issues of demand for, and outcomes of, telephone-based health care by those living in areas of deprivation. Recently I have combined my research interests with my personal interest in skin health and I am now the Chief Investigator of the Sunproofed study, a 2-year scoping study of sun safety policies in primary schools in Wales. I am an active volunteer with Skin Care Cymru, a charity giving a voice to those with skin conditions in Wales and I am a Trustee PC Project Europe, another skin charity close to my heart.
Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities, University of Southampton I am a historian of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England at the University of Southampton. I am teaching and research gender, sexuality and crime between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. I studied at the University of Essex under the supervision of Professor Anthony Fletcher and my research was on the construction of narratives of sexual violence in England from the 17th to early 19th centuries. It used both legal records and petitions for charity to examine how stories of rape were shaped and were changing over time. I also held Lecturing posts at the University of Essex and the University of Warwick before moving to Southampton. My interest in stories of sexual violence has developed into broader research on uncovering histories of groups that are largely absent from the historical record: including, gay and lesbian history, the history of childhood and gypsies/travellers.
Senior researcher, Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences I am a researcher and teacher based in Prague. My research group explores how climate, tectonics and life transform Earth's surface through time. Following research positions at universities in Wollongong, Glasgow, Stockholm, Potsdam and Aarhus, I joined the Institute of Geophysics in 2019 where I lead the Surface Processes and Palaeoclimate group. I am also visiting senior fellow at the University of Wollongong (2023- ), visiting professor at the Chengdu University of Technology (2019- ) and associate editor with the Geological Society of America Bulletin (2018- ). I have co-authored >75 peer-reviewed scientific papers cited in total >4000 times. All my publications can be accessed freely at https://johnjansen1.blogspot.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Mary Washington, where I teach courses related to American government, political behavior, public policy, and research methodology. I am a co-author of Citizens of the World: Political Engagement and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe (Oxford University Press, 2022), and author of Feeling their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Broadly, my research asks how American voters evaluate politicians and hold them accountable in an environment increasingly characterized by high levels of polarization and strong partisan identities.
Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon Julie M. Weise is an historian of Mexico-U.S. migration and global migration. Her award-winning book, Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015), was the first to recount the century-long history of Mexican migration to the U.S. South, a region usually assumed to be only black and white. Thanks to the NEH OpenBook program, the entire book is now free forever at your favorite E-book site. Her current project, "Guest Worker: Lives across Borders in an Age of Prosperity" (under contract with UNC Press), explores the intertwined social and policy histories of temporary worker programs in the Americas, Europe, and southern Africa from the 1920s through the 1970s. Weise is also an active public historian and pedagogue. She co-founded the Nuestro South youth social media project (nuestrosouth.org), the Teach in Spanglish bilingual curriculum (teachinspanglish.org), and the University of Oregon DREAMer Ally Training. She has published articles about immigration in outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and as been interviewed by NPR and Univision.com among others. Prior to joining academia, from 2001-2 Weise worked in the administration of Mexico’s President Vicente Fox as a speechwriter and researcher for the cabinet-level Office of the President for Mexicans Living Abroad. She has also worked as a translator, paralegal, project manager, and policy researcher at immigration-related agencies in New Haven and Los Angeles.
