Professor of History, University of Adelaide I have a BA (Hons I, University Medal) with majors in English and History, PhD in History and a Dip Ed from University of Sydney. My thesis was on American History but I work more in Australian History now including Museology and History Pedagogy. I was a Harkness Fellow to University of Pennsylvania and, most recently, a Redmond Barry Fellow to State Library of Victoria. I was until recently Head of the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. My research fields cover post war Australian history especially 1950s-60s, museology, automotive history, memorial culture and history pedagogy.
Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University Jumana Bayeh is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. Her research sits at the intersection of postcolonial studies and Middle East studies, especially the Arab Middle East and its diaspora. Her main research interests include Arab diaspora literature and culture, the history of colonialism in the Middle East, and the politics and culture in the Levant. She is the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (2015), is co-editor of Writing the Global Riot (2023) and has written many articles on the Arab world and the cultural history of its diaspora.
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology James Stroud is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes responsible for driving patterns of biodiversity across space and time. To do that, his lab studies the evolutionary ecology of lizards: a fascinating and hyper-diverse group of organisms. The lab's approach is highly multidisciplinary, integrating ecology, evolution, behavior, physiology, biomechanics, and natural history.
Associate Professor, Purdue University Jennifer Hoewe is an associate professor within the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She studies media psychology and political communication. Specifically, her research program focuses on how political issues and groups of people are depicted in media content and how those depictions influence media consumers, particularly in terms of their cognitive processing, their attitudes, and their own identity. Dr. Hoewe has published more than 45 scholarly publications and has won several research and teaching awards. She is the former head of the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.
