Associate Professor of National Security, National Defense University Dr. Michael Harsch is an Associate Professor of National Security at the National Defense University. Dr. Harsch is a political scientist with a focus on international security, international organizations and alliances, conflict, and economic development. He is the author of The Power of Dependence: NATO-UN Cooperation in Crisis Management (Oxford University Press, 2015), which analyzes U.S. strategic leadership and joint decision-making with its allies in major post-Cold War conflicts. He is currently completing his second book, which investigates the enduring success of “islands of stability” in fragile states. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post, among others. Dr. Harsch has a wealth of experience in academic research and teaching, policy-relevant work, and engagement with international organizations. He has been a visiting scholar with Harvard University’s Weatherhead Scholars Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University (BU). At BU, he taught multiple courses in the fields of international relations and security studies, including the university-wide hub course “Introduction to International Relations” and the graduate seminar “International Security.” Prior to joining BU, he served as an Assistant Professor of Practice at New York University (NYU) in Abu Dhabi, where he lived and taught for five years in an extraordinarily diverse environment, with students from more than 110 countries. At NYU Abu Dhabi, he also helped build a new, interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies program. In addition, he has been a visiting researcher at the NYU Center on International Cooperation in New York, the Social Science Center (WZB) in Berlin, and the World Bank’s Global Center on Conflict, Security, and Development in Nairobi. He further completed fellowships at Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Additional information can be found on his personal website: https://michaelharsch.org/
Professor of Education, Quinnipiac University Mordechai Gordon is a Professor of education in the School of Education at Quinnipiac University. My areas of specialization are philosophy of education, teacher education and democratic education. I am the author of Ten Common Myths in American Education (Holistic Education Press, 2005) and the editor of Hannah Arendt and Education: Renewing our Common World, winner of the 2002 AESA Critics Choice Award. I have published numerous articles in the most prestigious scholarly journals in my field such as Educational Theory, Journal of Teacher Education, Oxford Review of Education, and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice.
Associate Professor of Management, University of North Texas Marcus Wolfe is the G. Brint Ryan Professor of Entrepreneurship, and an Associate Professor in the Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. His research primarily focuses on individual cognition and decision making at all stages of the entrepreneurial process, the potential clinical and biological factors that influence entrepreneurial health and well-being, as well as emotions and entrepreneurial failure. His research has appeared in a number of leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal among others. He serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Additionally, prior to beginning his career in academia Marcus was also involved in helping to found and run several new venture start-ups in a wide range of industry sectors.
Lecturer in Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester Matthew Wells is Lecturer in Architectural Humanities at University of Manchester and member of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). His research uses architecture and visual culture to examine society, institutions, and individuals in the long nineteenth century. Particular focus is given to the intersection between representational techniques, technology, and professional expertise in the built environments of Britain and Europe. He studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and completed his doctorate in the History of Design Programme at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art. Before his appointment at Manchester he was junior faculty at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich. Wells is the author of two monographs Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London (2023) and Survey: Architecture Iconographies (2021) and co-editor of An Alphabet of Architectural Models (2021). Recently his research has been published in Architectural History, the Burlington Magazine, JSAH, and the Journal of Art Historiography, as well as contributing to the Paul Mellon Centre’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769-2018. His most recent book, Modelling the Metropolis, provides a new understanding of how Victorian London was conceptualised, debated, and constructed through architectural models. At a crucial moment of the London’s development, models were a vital medium of communication that enabled architects, politicians, and the wider public to conceive the city’s expansion of buildings and spaces. The research was awarded the Theodor-Fischer-Preis (2019) from the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and commended in the RIBA President's Awards for Research (2017). Additional research is concentrated in two areas. First, ‘Things of Modernity’, a new history of modern architecture researched through its material culture. Second, ‘Lines of Communication’ examines the relationship between architecture and the new forms of media that emerged in Britain and further afield. Dr Wells welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students with interests in Victorian and Edwardian architecture in Britain; material and technical history of architecture; architecture and empire in the British World; any aspect of architectural professionalism and construction labour.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Master of Community Planning Program, Auburn University Megan E. Heim LaFrombois, PhD, AICP, is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science’s Master of Community Planning program and is a faculty affiliate of the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Sustainability Studies Minor program at Auburn University. She is currently serving as the director of the Master of Community Planning Program. Dr. Heim LaFrombois’ research within the planning discipline broadly focuses on community development, participatory forms of city and neighborhood planning, public policy, plan evaluation, urban inequalities, and feminist and qualitative approaches to urban studies and research. With over eight years of experience working in the community development, public policy, and planning arenas - focusing on issues related to ending homelessness in Chicago - an important aspect of her work, both as a practitioner and an academic, is community engagement in addressing inequalities. Her research strives to inform planning practice and policy, and to improve cities and communities. Dr. Heim LaFrombois is the recipient of the 2020 Community and Civic Engagement Teaching Award from Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts and the 2016 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. She served as the secretary/treasurer of the Faculty Women’s Interest Group (FWIG) of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) from 2021-2023. She is a current member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics, Des Moines University Dr. Lambert is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics at Des Moines University, where he teaches the medical ethics curriculum in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School where he focused on religion and medicine. Dr. Lambert’s teaching and research has crossed the traditional boundaries of bioethics, indigenous studies, the history of medicine and religious studies. Focusing on leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and its modern history in the United States, especially Hawai’i, Dr. Lambert studies the impact of stigmatizing diseases—HIV/AIDS, mental illness and neglected tropical diseases—upon already marginalized communities. Having grown up in Kirksville, MO, Dr. Lambert is very familiar with osteopathic medicine and is also researching the historical development of osteopathy.
