Contributors

Maria Beamond

Lecturer in Global Human Resources Management, RMIT University

Lecturer in Global Human Resources Management, RMIT University

Matin Qaim

Director, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn

Director, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Matin Qaim is a food systems and development economist with a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn (2000). Before joining the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in 2021 he was Professor of International Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Goettingen (2007-2021), Professor of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security at the University of Hohenheim (2004-2007), and postdoctoral scientist at the University of California at Berkeley (2001-2003). Qaim has research and project experience in Europe, the USA, and numerous countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of his research focuses on sustainable food systems, agricultural development, and the reduction of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. He has over 250 academic publications, mostly in top disciplinary and interdisciplinary science journals, including Science, various Nature and Lancet Group Journals, and PNAS. He has been recognized as "Highly Cited Researcher" in 2021 and 2022. Qaim is member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), Fellow of the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and President-Elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). He has served on different high-level expert committees, including for the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, FAO, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the European Commission, The Royal Society, and the German Federal Government and Parliament.

Michael Richmond

Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology Michael Richmond teaches physics and astronomy courses at the Rochester Institute of Technology, runs the RIT Observatory, and studies variable celestial objects using optical telescopes. He often spends summers in Japan, working with the Tomo-e Gozen team at the University of Tokyo. Michael enjoys video games, programming, baseball, beer, and the novels of Hal Clement. Education Ph.D., Astronomy November 1992, University of California at Berkeley Thesis: “The Supernova Rate in Starburst Galaxies” Advisor: Alexei V. Filippenko M.A., Astronomy May 1989, University of California at Berkeley B.A., Astrophysics, Magna Cum Laude June 1986 Princeton University, Thesis: “An Application of Self-Consistent Field Theory to Close Binary Polytropes” Advisor: Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Michael E. Rose

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Michael Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cape Town. He specialises in the science of science: How can we improve science as a whole? Important aspects he studies include collaboration, migration, career choice and journal policies.

Morgan J. Robinson

Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University

Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University I am a historian of eastern Africa and the history of science, focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My research interests fall under the rubric of knowledge production broadly speaking, including in the areas of language, standardization, bureaucracy, research, and education. I received my BA from Yale University in 2008 and my PhD from Princeton University in 2018 and am currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. Between January 2021 and July 2022 I was a Humboldt Research Fellow affiliated with the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University. My first book, A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili (November 2022, Ohio University Press) examines the long-term, interconnected processes that produced Standard Swahili as it is taught around the world today, zooming in on specific moments of conversation, translation, and codification. Adopting this dual perspective allowed me to uncover the ways in which, over the course of a century, various communities-in-construction converged upon the project of linguistic knowledge production in and about Swahili. This upcoming October I will be in Essen, Germany at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities working on my second book project, tentatively titled Making an African University: Histories of Inquiry in East Africa. The book will examine the diverse frameworks of scholarly inquiry that co-mingled in this region across two centuries, ranging from discussions on the baraza (front porches) of Zanzibar, to universities in Kampala and Dar es Salaam. My aim with this project is to explore the notion of research, demonstrating how a region like East Africa—largely ignored in the mainstream literature on the history of science and its concomitant field the history of the humanities, both of which focus fundamentally on questions pertaining to the production of knowledge—can and should be an essential part of the conversation. To do so, I examine several case studies of research and researchers who, though perhaps not hewing to our traditional understanding of the terms, were engaged in scholarly inquiry. I argue that such “frameworks of inquiry” did not disappear with the establishment of colonial institutions of higher education, but rather informed the possibilities and modes of research available to East Africans in those spaces.

Maxime Paré

Professeur chercheur en agriculture nordique, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

Professeur chercheur en agriculture nordique, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) Agriculture nordique; science du sol; écologie du sol