Contributors

Jasmine McGowan

Lecturer, Monash University

Lecturer, Monash University

Jane Kuehne

Associate Professor of Music Education, Auburn University

Associate Professor of Music Education, Auburn University Dr. Kuehne's research interests include music reading/sight-singing in the choral classroom, access to string music education in the U.S. (with colleague Guy Harrison), effects deficit language in on pre-service music educators' views of families and students, effects of multi-subject area collaboration on pre-service teachers' views on collaboration and co-teaching, race conversations in our classrooms, and effective use of technology in music instruction/education. She teaches courses in a variety of areas including music teaching methods, urban and rural education, music psychology, music technology, and other areas.

Joshua Newell

Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Joshua Newell is a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to urban sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. Newell’s current research can be divided into two primary areas of interest. The first, Urban Infrastructure and Form, focuses on structural features of the urban form (e.g. built environment, transport, energy, and water infrastructure). The second research area, Urban Consumption and Commodities, focuses on the interrelationships between the consumption of consumer products, our responsibilities as global 'green' urban citizens, and the role of governance mechanisms and frameworks (including local institutions) in regulating product consumption. His research approach is often multi-scalar and integrative and, in addition to theory and method found in geography and urban planning, he draws upon principles and tools of industrial ecology, and spatial analysis. He teaches Sustainability and Society, a large undergraduate course, and Urban Sustainability, which is designed for MS and PhD students. He also leads a year-long interdisciplinary PhD student workshop that grapples with theories and concepts of urbanism, sustainability, and resilience.

Jason Hawes

Ph.D. Candidate in Resource Policy and Behavior, University of Michigan

Ph.D. Candidate in Resource Policy and Behavior, University of Michigan Jason “Jake” Hawes is a PhD candidate in the School for Environment and Sustainability. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Jake received a BS in Environmental and Ecological Engineering and an MS in Natural Resources Social Science, both from Purdue University. His previous work centered on coupled natural-human systems of water and water governance, including disaster recovery, adaptation to water scarcity, and community-scale WASH development. At SEAS, Jake is a member of the Urban Sustainability Research Group with Dr. Joshua Newell, studying adaptation in food-energy-water systems. Specifically, his dissertation couples geography-grounded lenses like political-industrial ecology with tools from engineering and spatial sciences to study the role of urban agriculture in future cities.

Joseph Schmidt

Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, University of Saskatchewan

Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, University of Saskatchewan Dr. Schmidt’s research is focussed on understanding how strategy, human resource management, and leadership interact to influence employee behaviours and firm performance. He also studies the precursors of group effectiveness and the multilevel influences of group processes on individual and team outcomes. He has published research in a number of practitioner publications and scholarly journals including Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Business and Psychology. Prior to joining the Edwards School of Business in 2011, Dr. Schmidt worked in the Vancouver office for the global consulting firm Hay Group, specializing in talent management, performance management, and compensation. He worked in Human Resources for an engineering consulting firm in Calgary before pursuing graduate studies. He also completed a variety of consulting projects for clients in both the public and private sectors as a graduate student.

Jo Coghlan

Associate Professor Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England

Associate Professor Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England Jo’s research uses a sociological and political lens to examine a range of popular culture forms and contexts. An interdisciplinary researcher, Jo has conducted research on a range of popular and material culture areas including gendered political fashion, death studies with a focus on death fashion, critical film and television studies with a focus on class and violence, romance studies which examine issues of representation and historical accuracy, a study of the global history of swim suits (with Dr Lisa J. Hackett), James Bond studies with a focus on material culture, framing of royalty in popular culture with a focus on gender, fashion and celebrity and representations of animals in popular culture in a post-humanist context. Jo is currently writing the history of pigs in popular culture, and along with Lisa Hackett and Huw Nolan is writing a book on the royals in popular culture (Routledge 2024). Jo is a co-founder of UNE’s Popular Culture Research Network (PopCRN), Australia’s leading popular culture research network and is an Editorial Board Member of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (Intellect).