Senior lecturer in African Studies, Yale University Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. A two-time winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction award and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, Steinberg was professor of African Studies at Oxford University and currently teaches at Yale and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg.
Professor in Psychology, University of East Anglia John P. Spencer is a Professor of Psychology at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. Prior to arriving in the UK, he was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa and served as the founding Director of the Delta Center (Development and Learning from Theory to Application). He received a Sc.B. with Honors from Brown University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Indiana University in 1998. Prof. Spencer is the recipient of the Irving J. Saltzman and the J.R. Kantor Graduate Awards from Indiana University, the 2003 Early Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development, and the 2006 Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award from the American Psychological Foundation. His research examines the development of visuo-spatial cognition, word learning, working memory, attention, and executive function with an emphasis on dynamical systems accounts of cognition and action. He has had continuous funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the US National Science Foundation since 2001 and has been a fellow of the American Psychological Association since 2007. He is currently leading an initiative on infant brain health in India funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the UEA Longitudinal Brain Study funded by the US National Institutes of Health. For more information, see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-144X.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham Young University I am a historian of African American history and study the relationship of race, masculinity, and religion in twentieth-century Black freedom movements in the United States and throughout the world. My research examines Black religious opposition to integration through the lens of the Nation of Islam’s history from the Great Depression to the 1980s. Derived from extensive research in archives, oral histories, and media sources, I provide fresh insight into the many approaches to achieving Black freedom in the United States and the world. I graduated from Brigham Young University (2012) with a BA in America Studies, an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia (2014), and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Utah (2022). I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute.
Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University Jing Zhou is Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Business of Rice University. She has been elected to Fellow of Academy of Management, Fellow of American Psychological Association, Fellow of Association for Psychological Sciences, Fellow of Society for I-O Psychology. Her research interests are leading innovation; contextual and personal factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation; creativity receiving; consequences of creativity; cross-cultural differences in antecedents and consequences of creativity; and creativity in entrepreneurship. Using the interactional perspective as an overarching lens, her research uses motivational, affective, and cognitive theories for an understanding of individual and team creativity in organizations. Her systematic program of research has addressed central questions such as how organizational and contextual factors (e.g., leadership, supervisory behaviors, coworker behaviors, feedback, and human resource management practices) interact with personal factors (e.g., personality, values, goal orientation) to enhance or restrict individual and team creativity. Her work has received over 33,000 citations.
Research Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management; Schaeffer Center Fellow, University of Southern California Jakub Hlávka, PhD, is a fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center. He is also a research assistant professor in the Health Policy and Management Department of the Price School of Public Policy at USC. His NIH-funded research focuses on the modeling of dementia treatments and associated economic challenges, with a specific focus on Alzheimer’s disease and emerging disease-modifying therapies. His modeling of COVID-19 pandemic interventions has been supported by the CDC and DHS, and his broader research interests include innovative payment models for pharmaceuticals, health system reform and the study of inequality, with current funding from the Greenwall and PhRMA foundations. Dr. Hlávka teaches in master’s programs at the USC Price School of Public Policy and the Keck School of Medicine. Outside of USC, Prof. Hlávka is a research consultant for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Committee on Improving Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research) and a member of the International Pharmacoeconomics Collaboration on Alzheimer’s Disease (IPECAD). He has additional professional experience from Genentech where he worked on R&D portfolio planning and as a consultant to the Tufts Medical Center's Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health. In volunteer capacity, he works closely with a hospital and schools serving vulnerable populations in the Dandora area of Nairobi, Kenya. Aside from health policy and economics, he has co-authored studies in national security, aerospace and emerging technologies and has served in research and consulting roles at the Fraunhofer Society (Germany), RAND Europe in Cambridge (England), and at the Office of the Government and Ministry of Finance in Prague (Czech Republic). Dr. Hlávka holds a PhD and MPhil from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a master’s degree from Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Economics in Prague.
Postdoctoral associate, University of Florida I earned my BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sheffield (UK) with a year abroad at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA). I was then lucky enough to complete an internship at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science in Australia, working with the team leading the Marine Cloud Brightening initiative to mitigate coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. In 2017 I joined the University of Florida's Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, where I completed my PhD focusing on investigating the fibropapillomatosis (FP) panzootic in sea turtles, with a particular emphasis on the application of environmental (e)-DNA. After graduating in 2022 I went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, and then returned to the Whitney Laboratory to continue my postdoctoral work in eDNA and sea turtle conservation.
