Mankin is a climate scientist. His research on climate variability and change is motivated by the risks global warming poses to ecosystems and people. Using both observations and process-based models, his efforts focus on constraining three of the major sources of uncertainty in climate changes, past, present, and future: the chaos innate to the climate system, the complexity of how people and ecosystems induce and respond to climate stress, and how model choices influence model answers. In his previous career, Dr. Mankin worked overseas as an intelligence officer.
Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration, UMass Boston Joseph N. Cooper is the Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Black Life, and an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Recreation Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his master's degree in Sport Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and doctorate in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Management and Policy from the University of Georgia. His research agenda focuses on the intersection between sport, education, race, and culture with an emphasis on sport involvement as a catalyst for holistic development. He has presented research at international, national, and regional conferences and published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, solo authored books, edited books, and op-ed contributions. As a result of his research, he earned the following recognitions: 2009 John E. Billing Outstanding Graduate Research Merit Award at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award from the University of Connecticut (UConn) Neag School of Education, 2018 Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) Early Career Researcher Award, and 2020 Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) Outstanding Book Award Finalist. He has also been cited in various media outlets include the New York Times, Boston Globe, ESPN, Le Monde, ABC News, Yahoo, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and USA Today. He is the author of From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development Through Sport and (Mis)Education (2019) (Peter Lang) and A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism Through Sport (2021) (Peter Lang). He has a forthcoming edited book titled, Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations (2022) (Texas A&M University Sport Management Press).
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University Jenae Harris is a criminologist and educator. She is currently a lecturer in Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University and a doctoral student at the University of North Georgia. Her areas of interest include the criminal law and the intersection of crime and hip hop, entertainment, and popular culture.
Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature and the director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston. His latest book, Marooned, reinterprets the Jamestown colony, shifting much of the credit for American democracy away from Plymouth Plantation and onto the rag-tag castaway employees of the Virginia Company. In 2013, he published, America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Towards Civil War, which details the evolving ideology of slavery in America. His first book was a study of the Irish novelist James Joyce, censorship, obscenity, and the Cold War (Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon). He also edits the popular series, The Seagull Books of Poems, Stories, Plays, and Essays for the publisher W. W. Norton. Right now he’s at work on a book about free speech, fascism, and the invention of liberal democracy.
Associate Professor, MacEwan University Dr. Junaid B. Jahangir is an Associate Professor of Economics at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. He is interested in economic pluralism and renewed perspectives to teaching economics. He has also published in Islamic Studies and has developed new courses including Economics of Religion and Humanistic Economics.
Research Fellow, Griffith University I'm a research fellow at Griffith University, as part of the Blurred Minds AOD prevention program. My current focusses are the Vaping epidemic, and behaviour change through Virtual Reality, Gamification and Social Marketing best practices.
