Lecturer in Modern and Welsh History, Bangor University Mari Elin Wiliam’s academic studies were completed at the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor University (BA 2002; MA 2004; PhD 2009). After a period teaching for the Open University and working at the Welsh Language Planning Centre, she was appointed a Research Assistant on the Duncan Tanner Archive project at Bangor in 2010–11. Following a further year as both a part-time tutor and researcher on a Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol website at Bangor, she was appointed a full-time lecturer in September 2012. Her PhD was supervised by the late Professor Duncan Tanner, and it focused on cultural and social change in Wales during the period 1950–62. She is in the process of developing it into a Welsh language monograph entitled ‘Moderneiddio, hunaniaeth a Phrydeindod yng Nghymru, 1939-c. 1962’ (Modernisation, identity and Britishness in Wales, 1939-c. 1962). She is currently also participating in research projects and collaborations focusing on the history of the Urdd youth movement, the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Labour Party and oral history. She teaches and researches through the medium of English and Welsh.
Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, UCL I am a social anthropologist specialising in the dynamics of fiscal systems and the sociality of tax, with a particular emphasis on the Andean region, where I have undertaken long-term fieldwork in a rural Quechua-speaking community, as well as in the peri-urban zones of Cochabamba city. In 2022 I commenced my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, ‘The Sociality of Tax: A Multiperspective Study of Fiscal Relations (SocTax)’. The project investigates fiscal regimes and cultures in an anthropological fashion comparing Bolivia, the UK, and Sweden, and exploring the types of social relations that paying and not paying tax produce in different ethnographic settings. I'm a member of the Anthropology of Tax network (tax-anthro.net), founder and convenor of EASA's Anthropology of Tax Network, and affiliate of UCL's Centre for Capitalism. I am also a member of the ERC-funded project 'Anthropologies of Extortion', working as part of an international groups of scholars to map and analyse cultures of extortion. In 2017 I was awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for my project 'Becoming a Taxpayer: Fiscal Expansion and Economic Subjectivities in Bolivia'. Before that I worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Anthropology department at UCL 2016/17. I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the London School of Economics (ESRC-funded) in 2014, MSc (Research) from London School of Economics (ESRC-funded) in 2007, and MA (hons) in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in 2005.
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Myunghee Lee's research interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, protest, and foreign policy. Her regional focus is East Asia, particularly the Korean Peninsula and China. Her work appears in many prominent journals such as International Security, Journal of East Asian Studies, Politics and Gender, and International Studies Review. Her research has been supported by the Korea Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies.
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program, Bowdoin College Margaret Boyle's teaching and research spans the literature and culture of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Her primary interests include Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures.
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, California State University, Northridge Manuela M. Dantas is an assistant professor at the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics of California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include financial accounting, ESG investing, greenwashing, behavioral finance, banking, and political science.
PhD Candidate in Economics, Macquarie University I am a PhD candidate in economics at Macquarie University. My research lies at the intersection of economics and public health, using advanced methods in applied econometrics to explore the intricate connections between economic factors and health outcomes. My current focus revolves around investigating socioeconomic inequalities in hearing health. My expertise includes applied econometrics, health technology assessment, health economic modelling, economic evaluation in health care and energy economics.
