Contributors

Jeff Swigert

Assistant Professor of Economics, Southern Utah University

Assistant Professor of Economics, Southern Utah University Jeff Swigert is a Ph.D. economist currently on leave from Southern Utah University. His research interests focus on policy topics at the intersection of education and health economics.

Jan Ruzicka

Lecturer in Security Studies, Aberystwyth University

Lecturer in Security Studies, Aberystwyth University Jan was appointed as Lecturer in Security Studies in August 2011. Since October 2013 he serves as Director of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies. Previously, he worked in the Department as a research assistant on the project 'The Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds'. From 2006 to 2009 he was Marie Curie doctoral fellow in the Department, where he defended his thesis in 2010. The thesis combined a theoretical critique of securitization theory with historical case studies of the French and Russian revolutions. Prior to coming to Aberystwyth, he served as the chief aide to a ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Security of the Senate of the Czech Republic from 2004 to 2006. A graduate of Charles University in Prague, he received his MA degrees in politics at Brandeis University (Fulbright Scholarship) and in international relations at Central European University (Soros Foundation Scholarship). Jan's research interests can broadly be divided into three main areas: security studies; international relations theory; and area studies with emphasis on Central Europe. In security studies his research focuses on theories of security, the relationship between politics and security, nuclear weapons and emerging security threats. Jan's work in international relations theory concentrates on the problem of theorizing trust at the international level. He has developed the concept of trusting relationship and currently works on anchoring the concept in a more general theory of international politics. Finally, he has had a long-standing research interest in area studies. This research has led to several articles on regional politics of Central Europe.

Jamal El Baz

Associate professor and Fulbright Fellow, College of Charleston

Associate professor and Fulbright Fellow, College of Charleston

Jon Winder

Researcher in History, University of Leeds

Researcher in History, University of Leeds I am a researcher working in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. Part historian, part geographer and part heritage practitioner, my research interests span children's play spaces, public parks and the urban environment more generally. I am an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Geographical Society.

Jamie Ferrill

Lecturer in Financial Crime Studies, Charles Sturt University

Lecturer in Financial Crime Studies, Charles Sturt University Jamie is a lecturer in Financial Crime Studies at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security. Jamie has been a university lecturer since 2013, teaching across criminology, business, and policing in Canada, the UK, and Australia. She has nearly a decade of law enforcement experience, having worked for the Canadian Federal Government prior to commencing an academic career. As an organizational behaviour researcher, Jamie focuses on the role of human actors in organizational processes, as well as in transnational cooperation and collaboration. Jamie has a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and Policing from Loughborough University in the UK. Jamie also holds a Master of Homeland Security Leadership degree from the University of Connecticut in the United States, and a Bachelor of Criminal Justice degree from Mount Royal University in Canada.

Jarred H Martin

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Pretoria

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Pretoria Dr Jarred H Martin, PhD, is an early-career researcher and senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, manages the postgraduate degree programme in Clinical Psychology, and supervises postgraduate student research in critical studies of gender/s and sex/uality/ies. His research concentrates on critical studies of bodies, gender/s, and sex/uality/ies, with a specific interest in sex-positive and critically-inflected studies of erotic subjectivity and practice in communities of kink. In addition to this, he sits on the Executive Committee for the Sexuality and Gender Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa.