Professor Emeritus of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Michael L. Ross is a graduate of Harvard University (PhD 1966). He has taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Vassar College and McMaster University, where he is now emeritus professor of English and Cultural Studies. His previous book publications include: Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice and Rome (Greenwood 1994), Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction (McGill-Queens UP 2006) and Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising (McGill-Queens UP 2015). His most recent book, Words in Collision: Multilingualism in English-Language Fiction, will be published by McGill-Queens University Press in April of 2023. He has also published numerous articles on writers such as Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Adjunct Faculty in Psychology and Childhood Studies, Bridgewater State University Meghan K. McCoy, Ed.D. is the Manager of Programs at the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, at Bridgewater State University. McCoy is also an Adjunct Faculty of Psychology and Childhood Studies at BSU. She has a BA in Psychology, a M.Ed. in School Counseling, and an EdD in Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. Her work focuses on social and emotional learning for older teens and young adults, bullying, cyberbullying and digital use among children and teens, and addressing bias in the K-16 education system. McCoy works with and trains K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students, consults in K-12 education, and focuses her expertise on providing practical strategies and concrete solutions to everyday social challenges.
Professor of Law, American University Michael W. Carroll is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2009 – present). He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Professor Carroll's research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. His research includes projects about the social costs imposed by one-size-fits-all intellectual property rights and about the history of copyright in music. Professor Carroll also is recognized as a leading advocate for open access over the Internet to the research that appears in scholarly and scientific journals. He has written white papers and has given numerous presentations to university faculty, administrators, and staff around the country on this issue. In addition, he speaks about and promotes publication of open educational resources and open scientific data. Professor Carroll is a founding member of Creative Commons, Inc. (2001 – 2015), a global organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to enable and to encourage legal sharing of creative and other copyrighted works. He remains involved with the Creative Commons USA project at WCL (2015 – present). He also served on the Board of the Public Library of Science (2012 – 2022) and served on the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information (2008–2013). Prior to joining the WCL faculty, Professor Carroll taught at the Villanova University School of Law (2001–09), and he served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (1996–97; 2000–01) (now WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C. Prior to entering law school, Professor Carroll was a journalist in Chicago, a high school teacher in Zimbabwe, and a project assistant at the Africa-America Institute, where he worked on providing election monitoring and election assistance in Africa. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Chicago.
Resesarcher, SALDRU, University of Cape Town Maya is a researcher and consultant working on inequality, poverty and fiscal policy. Her expertise is in distributional analysis, and she also enjoys more conceptual, and ethnographic style research. She currently works both for academic institutes like the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town and International Organisations like the World Bank's Equity Poverty Lab and the Global Development Network. She has a Masters in Economics (Public Policy and Development) from Toulouse School of Economics and was awarded an ODI Fellowship, during which she worked in the governments of East Timor and Burundi.
Associate Professor of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago Dr Michael Sam is an Associate Professor and co-director of the NZ Centre for Sport Policy and Politics. His background is in recreation, having gained much of his teaching/research interests from working at both the municipal and provincial levels of government in Manitoba, Canada. Mike serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. He is also the President for the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), a charitable incorporated organisation comprising 300 members across 50 countries (https://www.issa1965.org).
