Contributors

Matthew Higgins

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth I’m a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, teaching video game design and development. I specialise in narrative and cognitive psychology and bringing those to storytelling and game design.

Megan Dolman

PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Boise State University

PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Boise State University Meg is interested in human-environment interactions. Her current research involves understanding the spatio-temporal dimensions of human development and wildfire in sagebrush ecosystems. She is a PhD candidate in the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior PhD program at Boise State University.

Michael R. King

Associate Professor, Gustavson School of Business and Lansdowne Chair in Finance, University of Victoria

Associate Professor, Gustavson School of Business and Lansdowne Chair in Finance, University of Victoria Professor King is the Lansdowne Chair in Finance at University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business where his research is on banking and fintech, financial markets, and climate finance. He previously worked at Western's Ivey Business School (2011-2019), in central banking in Ottawa and Basel (2001-2011) and investment banking in New York, London and Zurich (1992-1998). He holds the CFA designation and teaches undergraduates and executives.

Max Kaiser

Adjunct lecturer, The University of Melbourne

Adjunct lecturer, The University of Melbourne Dr Max Kaiser is the author of Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave, 2022). His research on Jewish antifascism is also published in Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press edited by Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully (Palgrave 2020), The New Theatre edited by Lisa Milner (Interventions, 2022), Labour History, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Other writing has been published in Overland and Jacobin magazines.

Maiken Umbach

Professor of Modern History and Faculty Research Director, University of Nottingham

Professor of Modern History and Faculty Research Director, University of Nottingham AREAS OF EXPERTISE: History of the Third Reich, especially propaganda, visual culture, architecture, photography. Regionalism in modern Europe. The historical roots of modern identity politics; the role of material culture (buildings, urban design, objects) in shaping national and local identity; the history of the brand "Made in Germany". The role of private 'snapshot' photography in prompting political behaviour, how people internalise, or contest, ideologies and cultural beliefs. The problems of using 'perpetrator photography' to represent difficult histories, especially in the context of the way we document and exhibit the Holocaust. Landscape: ways of seeing and perceiving landscapes, the way that historically created landscape shape our ideas of what is 'natural' and 'beautiful'. Modern landscape art; Anselm Kiefer. Brief bio: 1970 born in Germany 1989-92 University of Cambridge MA in History, First Class 92-96 University of Cambridge PhD (study of how landscape gardens in England and Germany shaped and expressed ideas about Enlightenment and progress, and travelled across national boundaries) 95-98 Junior Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 98-2011 Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Manchester 2011-present Professor, Chair in Modern History, University of Nottingham Visiting appointments Institute for Contemporary History, Munich (2015) Freie Universität Berlin (2008) University College London (2005-06) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2004-05) Harvard University (2001-02 and 2003) Australian National University (2001) Key books / publications (highlights only): Photography and Twentieth-Century German History, Central European History. 48(3), 2015 German Cities and the Genesis of Modernism, 1890-1930, Oxford University Press, 2009 Municipalism, Regionalism, Nationalism. Hybrid Identity Formations and the Making of Modern Europe. European Review of History, 15/3 (2008) Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization and the Built Environment. Stanford University Press, 2005 Hijacked Heimats. National Appropriations of Local and Regional Identities in Germany and Spain, 1930-1945, with Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, European Review of History 15/3 (2008), 295-316. A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Long Nineteenth Century, American Historical Review, 110/3 (2005), 659-692. Memory and Historicism: Reading between the Lines of the Built Environment, c.1900, Representations, 88 (2004), 26-54. "Made in Germany". In H Schulze and E Francois, Deutsche Erinnerungsorte. Beck, 2001. Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806, Hambledon, 2000. FOR MORE DETAILS, SEE: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/people/Maiken.Umbach

Michael Winding

Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute

Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute I am a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. I generated and analysed the first synaptic wiring diagram, or connectome, of an entire insect brain. Using this brain map and linked experimental tools, my group aims to understand how brain-wide computations generate social behaviours and how these computations go awry after social isolation or in disease. About me: I am originally from northern Indiana in the US, where I received Bachelor’s Degrees in Biology and Studio Art at the University of Notre Dame. From there, I received a PhD in Cell Biology working with Vladimir Gelfand studying cytoskeleton rearrangement in neurons and oocytes at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. I worked as a postdoc studying how innate and learned valences are integrated in the Drosophila larva brain at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI in Ashburn, Virginia. Before my appointment at the Crick, I was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK, working with Marta Zlatic and Albert Cardona at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / Department of Zoology.