Contributors

Kristian Svennevig

Senior Researcher, Department of Mapping and Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Senior Researcher, Department of Mapping and Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Kimberly DaCosta

Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University Kim DaCosta is a sociologist interested in racial inequality and, in particular, the contemporary production of racial boundaries. Her book, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007), explores the cultural and social underpinnings of the movement to create multiracial collective identity in the United States. She is currently writing on how interracial extended kin relationships speak to questions of interracial empathy, care and politics. She teaches courses on race in different societies, social mobility, consumerism, and the commercialization of intimate life. DaCosta served as Associate Dean of Students at NYU's Gallatin School for seven years and has been actively involved in NYU's Prison Education Program since its inception in 2013. She is an Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an associate faculty member in the NYU Department of Sociology.

Katrina Ward

Chief Operations Manager Walgett & Brewarrina Aboriginal Medical Service PhD Candidate, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle

Chief Operations Manager Walgett & Brewarrina Aboriginal Medical Service PhD Candidate, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle Katrina is a descendant of the Ngiyampaa people whose country is associated with the arid plains and rocky hill country of Central West NSW. I has lived and worked in the health sector the majority of my lifetime in the North Western region of NSW and is passionate in promoting and improving the wellbeing of all individuals through applying culturally safe practice. I'm currently enrolled as PhD Candidate pursuing my passion to improve health outcomes for First Nations young people.

Katarzyna Kosmala

Chair in Culture Media and Visual Arts, University of the West of Scotland

Chair in Culture Media and Visual Arts, University of the West of Scotland A curator, and art writer. Chair in Culture, Media and Visual Arts at the University of the West of Scotland. Previously, a visiting research fellow at GEXcel, Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University & Örebro University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Areas of research: gender and the politics of representation, heritage and identity, and discourses of creativity and community in the context of a globalizing network society, as well as art production and enterprise. Founder and Co-leader for Curating Europes’ Futures -discursive series on contemporary curatorial and artistic practices that have evolved within the shifting and uneven economic and socio-political relations across an expanding European Project whilst raising questions over different kinds of constructed identities. Between 2012-2022, chaired the Interdisciplinary Research Network Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe. Resulted research led to several research projects concerned with culture, heritage and regeneration of waterfront spaces associated with maritime production and histories, looking at the role of arts and the effectiveness of community-led initiatives in planning as well as participatory practice in heritage protection. Born in Poland, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Konden Smith Hansen

Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Arizona

Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Arizona Konden Smith Hansen (Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Arizona State University) is Lecturer of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona, specializing in American Religious History, with a particular expertise in Mormon Studies. He is the author of the award winning Frontier Religion: Mormons in America, 1857-1907 (University of Utah Press, 2019) and co-editor of the award winning The Reed Smoot Hearings: The Investigation of a Mormon Senator and the Making of an American Religion (Utah State University Press, 2021). He currently teaches courses on American religious history, film and religion, Mormonism, world religions, and religious violence.

Katarina Fritzon

Associate Professor of Psychology, Bond University

Associate Professor of Psychology, Bond University I have a Masters in Investigative Psychology and my PhD thesis was on the psychology of fire-setting. I am a registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia, and have practice endorsements in Clinical and Forensic Psychology.