Contributors

Lu Liu

Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University

Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University Lu Liu is an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Her research interests include the water-energy-climate nexus, urban water sustainability, human-natural system interactions, and climate change adaptations.

Linda Bishai

Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University

Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University Dr Linda Bishai joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in April 2020, working on a wide range of international security issues including African regional economic communities, security cooperation in Africa, and monitoring instability in central and southern Africa. She has twenty years of experience in teaching, training and writing on international law, peacebuilding and security sector reform, and preventing/countering violent extremism. In her previous positions at the American Bar Association and at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Bishai designed and delivered workshops on teaching human rights in Iraq, teaching peacebuilding and election violence prevention in Sudan, women’s roles in preventing violent extremism in Nigeria and Kenya, and developing effective responses to radicalization and violent extremism in Kosovo. As Director of North Africa programs at USIP, Bishai facilitated dialogues on just and sustainable security sector responses to violent extremism and border security with high-level officials and civil society actors from the Sahel and the Maghreb. As Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, Bishai oversaw the activities of a team of legal researchers and monitoring & evaluation professionals. Her recently edited volume on Law, Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency explores the blurring of law enforcement and defence activities in the counter-terrorism context. Bishai holds a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an LLM in international law from the University of Stockholm, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Leanne Tonkin

Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University Leanne is a Research Fellow and lecturer in fashion and textiles, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University where she completed her PhD focussing on conserving ‘Designer Intent’ as a way of evaluating authenticity in contemporary fashion history made with postmodern materials. She is a trained textile and fashion conservator with a specialism in modern materials with previous experience working for institutions like The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. In addition, Leanne's career includes a background in commercial fashion design (10 years exp.). Her current research focuses on conserving and interpreting (post)modern materials and fashion artefacts for museum archives.

Laryea Akwetteh

Assistant lecturer, University of Ghana

Assistant lecturer, University of Ghana Laryea Akwetteh is an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon and holds degrees in music and African studies from the same University. He is a scholar and performing artist with a strong interest in the musics of the Ga people of Accra. Akwetteh is currently pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Canada.

Lindsay C. Sheppard

PhD Student, Sociology, York University, Canada

PhD Student, Sociology, York University, Canada Lindsay C. Sheppard is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at York University. She has a MA in Child and Youth Studies from Brock University. Lindsay is curious about questions of gender, age, collective feminist identities, and digital feminism. Using a feminist posthuman framework, her proposed dissertation will explore girls' feminist activism on Instagram, to better understand the materialities and discourses that shape the possibilities for digital feminism and feminist identities. Lindsay's dissertation aims to complicate binaries of online/offline, activism/slacktivism, and individual/collective.

Linus Girdland Flink

Visiting lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, lecturer in biomolecular archaeology, University of Aberdeen

Visiting lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, lecturer in biomolecular archaeology, University of Aberdeen I specialise in ancient DNA analysis and am particularly interested in animal domestication and past human demography. I also have a keen interest in wet-lab ancient DNA methods. My current research covers genome analysis of Early Medieval Picts in Scotland; assessing past biodiversity in Scotland and Ireland via environmental ancient DNA (NERC-funded QUADRAT PhD project at the University of Aberdeen); and past mobility and migration in prehistoric Scotland (University of Aberdeen-funded PhD project in collaboration with Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, and the Crick Institute, London).