Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Melissa J. Wilde is a sociologist of religion and inequality. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Sociology. She joined the department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, where she was undergraduate chair from 2013-2017. She has published award-winning articles in the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology. Her recent book, Birth Control Battles, demonstrates that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to eugenicist views of race, immigration and manifest destiny.
Assistant Professor of International Security & Law, George Mason University Meghan Garrity is an Assistant Professor of International Security & Law at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her research is situated at the nexus of international peace and security, political violence, and forced migration. She is focused on understanding conflict processes by examining the causes of, and constraints on, government policies of group-based ethnic violence and exclusion. Her current book project, “Disorderly and Inhumane: Explaining Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion, 1900-2020,” explains why and how governments expel ethnic groups en masse. Garrity’s work is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, the British Journal of Sociology, Political Science Quarterly, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post. She also has over ten years of experience as a humanitarian and development practitioner throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, and she continues to engage in consultancies with international organizations. Garrity was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Peace Fellow with the U.S. Institute of Peace. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.
Researcher, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN) Mario Surya Ramadhan is a researcher at the Research Center for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency Indonesia. His reserach interests include international security, foreign policy, and Indo-Pacific dynamics.
PhD Candidate, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University PhD Candidate with experience in qualitative research, writing, teaching, and public speaking. Diverse work experience including curation, communications, Indigenous governance, education, and curriculum development. Research interests include decolonization, resurgence, grounded normativity, colonialism/settler colonialism, genocide, belonging, Indigenous corrections, Indigenous justice, Haida tll yahda/making things right/justice, race/racism, corrections, research methods, self-determination, Indigenous rights and governance, and anything Haida Nation/Haida Gwaii related.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palaeoclimatology, Northumbria University, Newcastle Like most people, I was always fascinated by the sky and stars until an internal revelation led me to question if I knew enough about the Earth. This led my quest to find out more and more about Earth and its processes. On this path, I tried to understand how water - the elixir of life, on this planet, cycles through oceans, atmosphere and rocks and I am still doing the same. I use geochemical methods to understand climatic changes across Asia and Africa over the past hundreds of thousands of years. I also use geoinformatics as a tool for contemporary environmental monitoring and assessment. I learn each day and am a student for life.
Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle Hi! I am a Lecturer in Earth Science and contribute to both our Geography and Geology teaching programmes. I am also Admissions tutor for all the Geography, Geology and Archaeology programmes run out of Geography, Environment and Earth Science, so please get into contact if you have any questions – no matter how small or silly! I joined Hull as a Research Fellow, part funded by the UK Research Councils. Before then I spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). I did my PhD at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, subsequent to BSc and MSc degrees in Geology and Petroleum Geology at Imperial College, London. My interests are rather broad, including past climate change, micropalaeontology, carbonate sedimentology and alkaline waste remediation. In all cases, I am interested in the processes causing change and forming products in these systems, and I like to approach them using theoretical and laboratory approaches to address problems identified in the field. Method development is therefore key to what I do, and I am particularly interested in developing physical modelling solutions to a range of geochemical problems from the fate of zinc contamination in upland streams in the UK to the growth and characteristics of carbonate deposits in the Mesozoic of the southern Atlantic. Where I can, I bring my research into the classroom, enabling me to bring cutting-edge research into the lecture theatre. This is particularly true for my dissertation students, who can find themselves solving problems coming from anywhere from climate science, to metal pollution remediation to petroleum reservoir development. I’m also committed to teaching in the field – Geology and geography.
