Contributors

Miguel Ángel Pérez-Sánchez

Profesor Titular del Dpto. de Psicología Básica y Metodología, Universidad de Murcia

Profesor Titular del Dpto. de Psicología Básica y Metodología, Universidad de Murcia Profesor e investigador del Dpto. de Psicología Básica y Metodología de la Universidad de Murcia.

Mark Bennister

Associate Professor, University of Lincoln

Associate Professor, University of Lincoln Mark Bennister joined the University of Lincoln in 2018. He is Director, Lincoln Policy Hub and Director of the Lincoln Parliamentary Research Centre (ParliLinc). He was Reader in Politics at Canterbury Christ Church University from 2010 until 2018. Mark was a parliamentary academic fellow 2016-19. He previously held positions at UCL and the University of Sussex. He gained his DPhil from Sussex in 2009. Mark is a an Associate Research Fellow at the Crick Centre, University of Sheffield and was a Visiting Lecturer, Tufts University. Mark worked as an Executive Officer at the Australian High Commission in London from 1998 until 2004. He also worked as a parliamentary researcher at the House of Commons and European Parliament from 1993 until 1997. Mark is an expert in comparative prime ministerial leadership. He published 'Prime Ministers in Power: A Comparative Study of Political Leadership in Britain and Australia' in March 2012 and 'The Leadership Capital Index' in 2017. Mark gained his doctorate from the University of Sussex (2004-2008), where he was awarded a 1+3 ESRC studentship. Mark has an MSc in Social Research (Sussex 2005), MA in Contemporary European Studies (Loughborough 1993), and BA Hons in Social Sciences (Nottingham Trent University 1990).

Marlene Radl

PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Universität Wien

PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Universität Wien Marlene Radl (MA, University of Vienna) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She holds a MA in political science and a bachelor’s degree in developmental studies as well as in economics. Through the OeAD Marietta Blau Grant, she is currently completing a research stay at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana.

Monica Liu

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of St. Thomas

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of St. Thomas Dr. Monica Liu is a sociologist whose teaching and research interests include gender, globalization, family, immigration, race/ethnicity, Asia and Asian America, digital technology/media, and qualitative methods. She has explored the phenomenon of global internet dating and cross-border marriage between women from China and men from English-speaking Western countries. She is currently working on a new project that examines institutional racism against Asian women leaders in higher education. Born and raised in China, Dr. Liu immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight. Before joining the University of St. Thomas, she taught at Colgate University and Carleton College.

Molly Wylie

Ph.D. Candidate in Gerontology, UMass Boston

Ph.D. Candidate in Gerontology, UMass Boston Molly Wylie is a Gerontology PhD candidate and Research Associate at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. Her work focuses on the ways older adults and their caregivers navigate options for long-term, home- and community-based services (HCBS), paying particular attention to the influence of health literacy and self-efficacy. She has used mixed-method research to evaluate the effectiveness of programs across the service continuum, including supportive housing models, Councils on Aging, adult day health centers, and nursing homes. Wylie holds her M.S. in Gerontology from UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies. She is the inaugural Equity in Aging Research Fellow at the National Council on Aging (NCOA), examining financial insecurity and health among older Americans. Wylie served as an Aging Services Access Point (ASAP) Care Advisor coordinating the provision of supportive services to older adults in Massachusetts. She has supported various organization-wide efforts at LeadingAge, including hosting The Mentor’s Voice podcast and evaluating the student internship program designed to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in aging services.

Mary Dzon

Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee

Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee Professor Dzon teaches courses on early English literature and researches medieval devotional culture in late-medieval England. In addition to popular piety, her interests include medieval mysticism; medieval saints’ lives and romances; medieval conceptualizations of the lifecycle, gender and the body; animals studies; as well as visual and manuscript studies. Professor Dzon co-edited an essay collection and published a monograph on the medieval Christ Child. She has a forthcoming edition of Middle English poems on the childhood of Jesus, and continues to explore apocryphal traditions concerning Jesus and other figures connected with the Bible. She is currently working on an edition and translation of a Latin Life of the Virgin Mary and also a monograph on divine emotionality and Marian intercession in the later Middle Ages. An active participant in UTK’s interdisciplinary Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Professor Dzon is happy to work with graduate students in various medieval fields. At the undergraduate level she particularly enjoys teaching Premodern Beasts, Chaucer, and Medieval Women’s Literary Culture. In general, she loves discovering and discussing with others the myriad unusual and striking sources from the Middle Ages.