Privatdozent Dr, Biology, University of Konstanz My research investigates the evolution of cooperation, language-like adaptations and cognition in birds. I combine diverse methods, including longitudinal studies, field experiments and comparative work to do my research. My current research investigates the ecological and proximate drivers of social relationships among unrelated individuals.
Adjunct professor in Natural Resources, University of Manitoba I am a behavioural ecologist with research interests in the evolution and ecology of animal behaviour with a focus on conservation biology and animal adaptations to environmental change. My research combines field-based mensurative and manipulative experiments with laboratory approaches (e.g. genetics) to explore the evolutionary and ecological drivers of cooperation, and behavioural response to impacts of natural environmental change, and human-induced disturbances (e.g. traffic, noise, and industrial activity) and climate change.
Professor and Chair of History of Art and Architecture, UMass Amherst I am a full professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. I am a specialist in Renaissance art, especially from Venice, but I also teach courses in Italian Baroque art. I have published widely on Italian Renaissance art with a focus on how art was collected and displayed, especially in domestic settings. This is the emphasis of my recent book "The Art Collector in Italy Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace" (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester I took up the post of Associate Professor of Archaeology in Leicester in early 2021 and I will until 2026 principally focus on the ERC Starting Grant Body-Politics: Death Personhood and Sexuality in the Iron and Viking Ages. Before taking up the post in Leicester I was Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. From 2017-2019 a grant took me to the University of Cambridge where I was a Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute of Archaeology and at Clare Hall college. Before this I was substitute Associate Professor (2016) and Teaching Fellow (2015) at the Institute for Archaeology in Oslo. My PhD (2012-2015) was also written there, with some time spent at UCL. My research ranges topics from infancy, power and the powerless, to movement, dreams and the self in the past. It centres around three main axes of late prehistoric and early medieval Scandinavia: the entwinement between architecture and inhabitants; the complex relationships between the living and the dead; and politics of the body. Often, I have worked with the links between architectural spaces and human bodies, by considering how prehistoric houses are built by bodies, produce certain bodily experiences, can be conceptualised as bodies themselves - and how dead bodies, parts and whole, are linked to domestic space. I have a strong interest in the lived experiences of inequality and gender. I was honoured to receive the 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology.
Professor of Communication, College of Charleston Michael J. Lee is a professor at the College of Charleston where he teaches and researches in political communication. His first book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (Michigan State, 2014), won five national book awards. His latest book (co-authored with R. Jarrod Atchison) is We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 (Oxford, 2022).