Associate Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada Martha Stiegman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. She is white settler of mixed French ancestry, from Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia. Her community-based research and collaborative video work examine Indigenous / settler treaty relations in their historic and contemporary manifestations, with particular attention to food sovereignty and justice; as well as participatory and visual research methodologies.
Associate Professor and Chair of Religion, Lycoming College Dr. Heyes specialized in the History of Christianity during his Ph.D. studies. He has a wide range of research interests including medieval saints' lives literature, magic, film, politics, and monstrosity; but largely all informed by his engagement with demons and the demonic in Christian history. He has written two monographs, both of which are published with Routledge: Margaret's Monsters: Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England (2019; Studies in Medieval History and Culture) and Demons in the USA: From the Anti-Spiritualists to QAnon (2024; Routledge Studies in Religion).
Associate Professor of Criminology & English Literature, Western University Former police detective turned award-winning university professor, author of 10 books on criminal investigation, television host and true crime broadcaster, founder of the Western Cold Case Society & director of the Murder Accountability Project (murderdata.org) in Washington DC. Also an associate with the Center for Homicide Research in Minneapolis and senior member of the Atypical Homicide Research Group in Boston. Scholarly book series editor for the Criminal Humanities collection with Peter Lang Publishing in NYC and previous Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Chair at Vanderbilt U in Nashville. Winner of Western's 2017 Humanitarian of the Year for my research on unsolved murders & victim narratives. michaelarntfield.com @mikearntfield
Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester Matt is the author of 'A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela' (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba I work on the genomics of wildlife, including fish and marine mammals. This work can have both fundamental importance and conservation applications.
