Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology Dr Jamilla Rosdahl is a Senior Lecturer and researcher specialising in gender, coercive and social control, surveillance and violence as well as critical criminology, the body, nineteenth- and twentieth- century continental philosophy and social and political thought. Dr Rosdahl currently teaches sociology, social work, social psychology, environmental and postcolonial sociology, classic and late-modern social theory with a focus on feminist, post-colonial, post-structuralist and Foucauldian thought. She has taught at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Karlstads University (KaU), and worked for the Queensland Research Centre for Domestic and Family Violence at Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia. In 2018 Dr Rosdahl worked for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service within the areas of male sexual crimes, sexual abuse and violence.
Lecturer in Ecology, Trinity College Dublin Jessica Knapp is an ecologist interested in how our landscapes can best support biodiversity and ecosystem functions, particularly pollinators and pollination services. Knapp completed her DPhil with Juliet Osborne at the University of Exeter before moving to Lund University, Sweden, where she worked as a Researcher. Now, at Trinity College in Dublin, Knapp works as an assistant professor in Ecology. Impact-driven, Knapp enjoys transdisciplinary research, where her projects combine ecological and social sciences to understand the drivers and mitigators of biodiversity decline.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School I am an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. My current research focuses on some of the most important policy areas that concern local governments, such as housing, transportation, policing, and economic development. My research also examines how citizens hold elected officials accountable, how representation translates the public's interests into policy via elections, and how people’s policy opinions are formed and swayed. I also teach in Harvard's MPP program on politics and ethics, and lead elective courses on urban politics and policy. These classes include an experiential field lab that partners student teams with cities and towns to work on applied urban policy problems. You can view my full CV here. My work has received the Clarence Stone Emerging Scholar Award and the Norton Long Young Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have also received funding for this research from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and the Boston Area Research Initiative. Prior to joining Harvard, I was an assistant professor at Boston University, and before that a postdoctoral researcher at the Boston Area Research Initiative. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my B.A. in Government and Psychology from the College of William & Mary.
Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell Jane Sancinito is assistant professor of ancient history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her current research focuses on merchants and craftsmen in the Roman Empire, ancient stereotypes, and the study of money in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.
Associate Professor in Psychology, The University of Queensland James N. Kirby, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, Clinical Psychologist, and the Co-Director of the Compassionate Mind Research Group at the University of Queensland. He has broad research interests in compassion, but specifically examines factors that facilitate and inhibit compassionate responding. He also examines the clinical effectiveness of compassion focused interventions, specifically in how they help with self-criticism and shame that underpin many depression and anxiety disorders. James also holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University and is an Honorary Member of the Compassionate Mind Foundation UK. In 2022 he authored Choose Compassion, and in 2020 he co-edited Making an Impact on Mental Health. He serves as an Associate Editor for two international journals Mindfulness and Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice.
Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University João Marinotti is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, a Fellow at Indiana University's Center for Intellectual Property Research. His prior affiliations include the Center for Quantum Networks and the Harvard Law School Project on the Foundations of Private Law.
