Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning, Sheffield Hallam University Joel is a researcher, teacher and passionate advocate of Media, Art and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, and has a leadership role of Associate Dean in the College of Business, Technology and Engineering. His teaching is the subject of Public Relations to Journalism, Media and Marketing students. His research interests include sequential art and visual culture, popular culture and public relations/marketing strategy and campaigns.
Assistant Professor of Northwest Coast Arts, University of Alaska Southeast Judith’s Dax̱ootsú Ramos is Tlingit from Yakutat, Alaska. She worked for Yakutat Tlingit Tribe as an anthropologist. She is a co-curator for the Northwest Coast Hall renovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Her publications include: Ramos, J. (2020). Tlingit Hunting along the Edge: Ice Floe Harbor Seal Hunting in Yakutat Bay, Alaska., A. Crowell (ED.), Arctic crashes: People and animals in the changing north. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press; “This is Kuxaankutaan’s (Dr. Frederica de Laguna’s) Song” with Elaine Abraham: and “Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Tlingit People Concerning the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Dry Bay Area” with Rachel Mason. Daughter of Elaine Abraham and George Ramos, mother of Kai Abraham Monture and Maka Jinatlaa Monture.
PhD Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh Jamie Weir is an evolutionary and behavioural ecologist interested in the origins of biological diversity and its consequences in changing environments. His research focuses particularly on adaptive colouration and phenology in the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). In his most recent teaching post at the University of Edinburgh, Jamie provided statistical support to fourth year undergraduate students designing, conducting, and completing their honours research projects. Jamie completed his PhD at Edinburgh's Institute for Ecology and Evolution, supervised by Ally Phillimore. He used large-scale experimental approaches to examine the consequences of phenological asynchrony in woodland caterpillar species. Prior to this work, he employed a combination of field experiments and phylogenetic comparative analyses to investigate the selective pressures exerted on insect colouration by bird predators. Jamie is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a Member of the Royal Entomological Society.
Professor, College of Business Administration, Ajou University My research area is computational macroeconomic theory, agent-based mathematical modelling of system dynamics, and empirical macro-financial links. Particularly in household finance, I am interested in intergenerational links and strategic delinquent behaviors of a household. I have also coauthored some papers on strategic resource allocation across generations in pre-modern societies. My agent-based models aim to analyze systemic risks and optimal portfolio decisions in a financial market and have been published in applied mathematics journals.
Senior Lecturer of Finance, Auburn University Finance professor/lecturer for almost 3 decades at Auburn University, University of Iowa, University of Notre Dame, and Southern Methodist University (SMU). Also, a partner at Palos Harbor Fund LP, a precious metals hedge fund out of the United States, Canada, Switzerland. Received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Texas, Arlington; MBA from Loyola University, Chicago; and BBA in Finance from the University of Iowa. Prior to academia was a financial analyst in Chicago and Seattle.
Professor of English, Arizona State University After 24 years as a high school teacher, James Blasingame joined Arizona State University in 2000. He has served as ALAN President, ALAN Executive Director, co-editor of The ALAN Review, and editor of the “Books for Adolescents” pages of the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. He has authored or coauthored seven books, 100 interviews, and 300 book reviews. For 24 years, he drove a school bus in Iowa, and for one week, he drove a dog sled in Alaska with Gary Paulsen. In 2023 he was awarded the rank of President’s Professor at ASU. He is married to ballroom dance instructor, and former Miss Nevada, Lori Isom Blasingame.
