Postdoctoral fellow, Stellenbosch University My research has broadly been focussed on social movements and questions of 'justice'. Ranging from spatial justice to environmental justice, I have done research on groups that have had to strategically leverage a range of resources to actualise South Africa's progressive constitutional rights. I have worked with groups such as Reclaim the City, the Climate Justice Charter Movement and the Philippi Horticultural Area Campaign, and in doing so, developed scholarship around concepts of 'slow activism', and more recently on temporality as a lens.
Assistant Professor in Political Science, MacEwan University Over the last few years, I have worked on urban climate governance from local and global perspectives. More specifically I have studied the networks cities join or create to enhance their climate policies and their potential for generating innovative climate instruments. I am now starting a new research agenda on the governance of urban wellness and its synergies and conflicts with urban climate policy.
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville Melissa Merry received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, with specializations in American Politics and Public Policy. Before joining the faculty at University of Louisville, she spent one year as a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include environmental politics and policy, interest groups, and political communication. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Politics Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Online Information Review, Review of Policy Research, Policy & Internet, and Policy Studies Journal. Melissa is the author of two books, one examining environmental groups’ communications in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, and the other examining the policy narratives of gun control and gun rights organizations. Her current research focuses on health care policy and involves analysis of public comments submitted between 2016 and 2018 in response to proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program.
Teaching Associate in Political History, Bangor University Dr Marc Collinson teaches contemporary history and politics. An active political historian of post-war Britain, Marc is interested in electoral phenomena (including by-elections), political parties, and policymaking. He is currently writing a study of Smethwick in electoral politics, c. 1955-1970. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Senior lecturer, Australian National University Millicent joined the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University at the start of 2018. Prior to this she was a researcher in Publishing Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD (Monash University, 2016) was a sociology of literary festivals. She has also worked as an archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives and the National Library of Australia. Millicent's first book, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Bristol My PhD research, supervised by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Silke Knippschild, centres on Egyptian funerary stelae from the Roman period, using the site of Terenouthis/Kom Abou Billou as a case study. I am exploring how the inscriptions and iconography are used to construct and express the social identity of the deceased, with particular focus on gender, religious identity and ethnic identity; I am also investigating the effects of linguistic interference from the Egyptian language on the Greek language in Terenouthis. I have previously completed a BA and MA in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where I specialised in the ancient Egyptian language and literary texts. My BA thesis investigated the concept of divine kingship in didactic literature from the Middle Kingdom period. My MA thesis, supervised by Dr Roland Enmarch and Prof Christopher Eyre, focused on the themes and motifs in the Late Egyptian literary text 'Tale of Two Brothers'. My research interests are diverse and include ancient Egyptian language and literature, cross-cultural contact in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, language contact in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, Hellenism and Greek language in Egypt and the Near East, comparative Semitic philology, religion in ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, Coptic language and literature, early Christianity, the reception of ancient Egypt and archaeology in modern visual media, and the reception of ancient Egypt in 19th and 20th century spirituality and religious movements. My linguistic competence is broad and includes Egyptian hieroglyphs, Coptic, Classical Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician and Classical Arabic. In addition to my academic research I am actively involved in the outreach programmes Access to Bristol and Classics for All, delivering workshops to schools in the South on a wide range of topics related to the study of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. I also regularly teach courses in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and give public lectures on a range of topics related to Egyptology and ancient history. For upcoming events and courses, please visit https://mmkingevents.weebly.com and https://kemetklub.co.uk. I am on the board of the Friends of the Petrie Museum, UCL as Secretary-Treasurer. In addition to this role I am also on the judging panel for the category Classical Studies and Archaeology of the Global Undergraduate Awards, an academic awards programme which aims to connect undergraduate students across national borders and academic disciplines.
