Contributors

Lesley Pruitt

Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne

Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Research Affiliate of the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne.

Lana Vanderlee

Canada Research Chair in Healthy Food Policy, Assistant Professor in Nutrition, Université Laval

Canada Research Chair in Healthy Food Policy, Assistant Professor in Nutrition, Université Laval Dr. Lana Vanderlee is a Canada Research Chair in Healthy Food Policy. With a PhD in Public Health, Dr. Vanderlee conducts research examining the impacts of food policies on population health. She conducts national and international research to better understand what governments can do to support healthy eating. Her research program also focuses on the commercial determinants of health, to examine how the food industry and the current food system might influence dietary patterns. Dr. Vanderlee has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in leading nutrition journals, and her research is funded by the major national funding agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada and others.

Lindsay DiCuirci

Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lindsay DiCuirci is an associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in Language, Literacy, and Culture at UMBC, specializing in early American literature and the history of the book. Her book, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) examines the politics of collecting, preserving, and reprinting colonial books and manuscripts in the nineteenth-century U.S. Colonial Revivals is the recipient of the Bibliographical Society of America’s St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, the Library Company of Philadelphia’s First Book Award, and the Early American Literature Book Prize. Other work has recently appeared in Reception, Early American Literature, and the edited collection, Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2020). Her current research centers on Spiritualist print culture and social reform in the U.S. between 1840-1870. Dr. DiCuirci teaches courses in early American literature and print culture, African American literature, women’s literary history, and critical theory. Her collaborative scholarship on working with students in archives can be found in Archive Journal and the forthcoming collection Students in the Archives (U of Illinois Press, 2025). In Fall 2022, with the help of a Hrabowski Innovation fund grant, Dr. DiCuirci’s seminar students produced a collaborative digital project with UMBC Special Collections entitled Digital Cruikshank: Etching & Sketching in Nineteenth-Century England. She is the current director of the English Honors program at UMBC and the former director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities’ Humanities Teaching Labs initiative. Dr. DiCuirci is also an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent research libraries.

Louis Fletcher

Research Fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Research Fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick I'm a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, and a member of the UK Energy Research Centre, working on the politics of the transition to net zero.

Lucinda Grummitt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney Lucy’s research focuses on the prevention of mental health and substance use problems among adolescents, with a particular focus on populations that suffer disproportionate rates of mental illness, such as those exposed to childhood adversity and trauma, and gender- and sexuality- diverse (LGBTQA+) young people. She is passionate about school-based prevention, and currently leads the development and national randomised controlled trial of a universal trauma-aware and gender-inclusive mental health prevention program for Australian students. She is committed to youth involvement in the research process and coordinates a Youth Advisory Board, engaging a diverse group of 10 Australians aged 16-25 to ensure youth perspectives are integrated into research.

Louise Gillet de Chalonge

PhD Student in Astrobiology, Dublin City University

PhD Student in Astrobiology, Dublin City University Louise Gillet de Chalonge has a Bachelor's degree from Aix-Marseille Université and a Master's degree from Sorbonne Université in biology and ecology. She gained research experience in various projects related to astrobiology, including at the French National Museum of Natural History and at the German Aerospace Center. She is now a PhD student at Dublin City University, focusing on astrobiology and origins of life.