Faculty Member (Theology Department), Part-Time, Boston College My research interests lie at the intersection of early Christianity, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and posthumanism(s). I recently completed a PhD at Harvard (Study of Religion) and currently teach at Boston College. My dissertation, entitled "Power in the Name: Towards a Theological Posthumanism," examines onomastic invocations to access otherworldly power in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Tibetan sources. I previously earned an AB in Religious Studies (University of Chicago), an MA in Clinical Psychology (Wheaton College, IL), an MDiv (Harvard Divinity School), and an MA in Study of Religion (Harvard University). Outside of academia, I serve as an Episcopal priest at a parish near Boston.
Douglas and Brenda Horne Professor of Business, University of Tennessee Jonathan Hasford is the Douglas and Brenda Horne Professor of Business in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. Jonathan holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Kentucky, and M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Louisville. Jonathan’s research is primarily focused on how emotions influence consumer decision making. Specifically, Jonathan has studied how emotions transfer between unrelated persuasion messages and how training emotional intelligence can lead to healthier eating. Jonathan’s research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. Jonathan has previously taught at the University of Nevada, Florida International University, and the University of Central Florida. Jonathan has taught at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level in a variety of courses including Principles of Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communications, Data Analysis, and Advertising and Persuasion. Jonathan has also served as a special topics lecturer for the Professional Selling Program at the University of Central Florida, providing a specialized emotional intelligence training program to sales students. Jonathan also contributes to the field of Marketing by serving on the editorial review board at the Journal of Retailing and Journal of Business Research. Jonathan has also served as an ad-hoc reviewer for several marketing and psychology journals.
Associate Professor, Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University Dr Hurley is an Associate Professor with the Sustainability and Urban Planning program at RMIT University and member of the Centre for Urban Research. His research focuses on urban planning and urban sustainability issues. Recent research topics include planning systems performance, urban greening, urban sustainability performance assessment, and research-practice exchange. He is deputy lead of the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes hub funded by the the National Environmental Science Program (www.nespurban.edu.au).
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University Dr. James Cotton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University and the Co-Director of the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies (MIES). He obtained his PhD in Mechanical engineering from McMaster University in 2000. From 2000-2007 he worked at Dana Corporation, Thermal Products, Ontario. During his tenure in the automotive industry his focus was on automotive power plant and fuel cell thermal management and emission system modeling, design and control. He was the supervisor of the Heat Transfer Research team providing research and development leadership by determining vision, strategy and goals for automotive energy systems and heat transfer related activities for the Division. Upon joining McMaster he has focused his research leadership towards thermal management, system modeling, energy harvesting in the emerging fields of thermal energy recovery, storage and electrohydrodynamics. His research focuses on developing, modeling and experimentally validating energy systems and technologies to advance safe and efficient thermal management solutions, integrated community energy systems, energy harvesting technologies and automotive thermal management technologies. Dr. Cotton’s research and industry experience involves nearly all aspects of the energy network, ranging from improving hybrid and electric vehicle performance, integrated community energy systems and waste heat recovery from commercial and industrial processes. Over the past six years Dr. Cotton has liaised with a wide variety of communities and industrial partners to establish community energy plans, to identify problems facing industry, develop technology road maps to address these challenges and lead comprehensive research programs to provide sustainable energy and transportation solutions. This research includes a $2M cooperative project led by Dr Cotton that unites 20 Industry Partners who are working together to design, optimize and commercialize the Integrated Community Energy and Harvesting System (ICE-Harvest), a distributed energy resource management system. The research with these partners led Cotton to design and develop the $5.5M Research Facility for Integrated Building Energy Harvesting Systems (ReFIBES) and the formation of a 22 partner Energy Research Cooperative, with the aim of meeting their communities’ GHG reduction goals. The facility includes integrating bidirectional and unidirectional charging stations and a bidirectional vehicle, synergistically working with the distributed energy resources to provide resilient carbon-free heating, while being demand responsive to the electrical grid. Dr Cotton has authored/co-authored over 110 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, has 4 granted patents and one pending. During the past six years he has trained over 75 graduate students and researchers. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Principal of a consulting company ThERM Solutions and founder and CEO of HARvEST Systems Inc., a spin-off company that commercialized novel energy harvesting systems for restaurants.
Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee I am a Lecturer in Religious Studies responsible for UT’s Biblical Hebrew program. I also teach the Hebrew Bible in English, Introduction to Judaism, and Survey of Early Rabbinic Literature. For the History Department I have taught Early Jewish History (Biblical through Early Medieval Period).
Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology, The University of Queensland A/Prof Jennifer Koplin is Group Leader of Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology at the University of Queensland Child Health Research Centre. She leads the Evidence and Translation Hub of the National Allergy Centre of Excellence (www.nace.org.au) and the Food Allergy Prevention stream of the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Food Allergy (CFAR; www.foodallergyresearch.org.au). A/Prof Koplin has over 15 years of research experience in epidemiology and allergy, and has developed an internationally recognised program of research in the epidemiology of childhood food allergy. Her research has explored the prevalence, natural history, causes and consequences of childhood allergic disease. She has led a series of large population-based allergy cohort studies, is a co-investigator on several food allergy prevention and treatment trials and collaborates on research exploring immunological mechanisms underlying childhood food allergy and improving food allergy diagnosis. A/Prof Koplin has been awarded 6 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grants, 2 consecutive NHMRC fellowships and a Centre of Research Excellence as a chief investigator. She has authored more than 150 peer reviewed journal articles with >4,500 citations and is on the editorial board of the international Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Her recent research focused on using population-based studies to inform the design and implementation of prevention interventions and determine their effectiveness in reducing allergy prevalence at the population level. She also has a strong research interest in the role of infant feeding in allergy prevention and contributed to the development of new Australian and international guidelines on infant feeding for preventing food allergy. In 2018, she received a National Health and Medical Research Council project grant to conduct the first study internationally to measure the impact of these guidelines on infant feeding practices and the population prevalence of peanut allergy.
