Contributors

Michael Naparstek

Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee

Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee I study Chinese religions with a focus on Daoist ritual and art. In particular, my work on exorcistic thunder deities shows how the study of visual and material cultures in Asian religions contributes to the broader discourse of presence and object agency.

Michelle Scoullar

Senior Research Fellow, Burnet Institute

Senior Research Fellow, Burnet Institute Dr Scoullar is an international health specialist, General Paediatrician, and Senior Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute. She has extensive clinical and research experience across tertiary, community, rural and remote settings in Victoria, NSW, Queensland, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar and Papua New Guinea (PNG). Dr Scoullar’s work is focused on issues of health equity and improving child health outcomes, and is passionate about patient centred, culturally sensitive, quality care that upholds patient voice and dignity. She leads paediatric component of a Long COVID specialist clinic, providing evidence-based care to children and adolescents with Long COVID.

Michael Ryan

Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato

Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato Michael's current research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic uncertainty.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations/Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations/Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Miller is currently on leave from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where she is a tenured associate professor of international relations, and the director of the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center. She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia. Miller has been a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and policy journals, and chapters in edited books. She received a BA from the University of Delhi, an MSc from the University of London, and a PhD from Harvard University. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University.

Megan Delamer

Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Penn State

Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Penn State I am a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University, currently working with Suvrath Mahadevan. I work on a host of topics relating to the detection and characterization of exoplanets, but I'm particularly interested in the formation of giant planets around low mass stars.

Mike W. Morley

Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University

Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University I am a geoarchaeologist with 20 years’ experience working in both academic and commercial environments. My primary area of expertise is the study of archaeological site formation processes and the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments at various scales through the study of site micro- and macro-stratigraphy, geological sequences and geomorphological landforms. I am interested in reconstructing changes in geomorphological systems (e.g., river behavioural change) and the implications of these dynamics on humans (and hominins) living in—and interacting with—these landscapes. I have worked widely in Europe, North Africa (Sudan, Libya), southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho), Middle East (Oman, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia) and Southeast Asia (Malaysian Borneo, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar).