PhD Candidate, Languages and Literature, De Montfort University Authorship Attribution in Early Modern Drama: A survey of the Shakespeare Apocrypha My interest is in stylometry — the science of measuring writing styles — and it how can be best applied to the diverse field of Early Modern English. My research examines the Shakespeare apocrypha, a group of 17th Century plays published under Shakespeare’s name, but which have historically been regarded as containing little-to-none of his writing. By developing a new suite of stylometry software alongside my studies, my hope is to glean new insight into the authorship of these texts, while creating a set of tools that can be easily circulated to other researchers, or students, who are interested in studying authorship. Research Area Languages and Literature Publications "Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival", Shakespeare, 2023 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2023.2226119 "Principal Component Analysis and Authorship", Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023 https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/llc/fqad054/7295827 "The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham", Notes and Queries, 2024 https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjae106/7758213
Associate Professor of Communication, William Paterson University A former New York City journalist, Nicholas Hirshon is an associate professor of communication at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, about 20 miles west of New York City. He holds a Bachelor’s in journalism from St. John’s University (2006), a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University (2008), and a Ph.D. in mass communication from Ohio University (2016). Hirshon is the author of the book "We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders," released in 2018 via the University of Nebraska Press. He previously wrote two other books, "Images of America: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum" (2010), on the Long Island arena known for hosting the Islanders, and "Images of America: Forest Hills" (2013), about the New York City neighborhood that hosted the U.S. Open tennis tournament for six decades. He has been interviewed about his books by news outlets such as the CBS television affiliate in New York City, News 12 Long Island, the New York Post, Newsday, and the radio station that airs Islanders games. Hirshon has published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Journalism, Case Studies in Sport Management, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Journalism History. His research has also been recognized with awards and honors at several academic conferences. In 2015, his paper on the groundbreaking association between New York City Mayor John Lindsay and the 1969 New York Mets received the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Journalism Historians Association. Before joining the faculty at William Paterson, Hirshon taught journalism at Ohio University (2013-2016), St. John’s University (2010-2013), and LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York (2009-2013). He also served on the adjunct faculty at the Columbia Journalism School in 2018 and 2019. Hirshon has received several major awards for his teaching, including an AEJMC Promising Professors Award in 2014 and the Society of Professional Journalists’ New Jersey Journalism Educator of the Year Award in 2019. In 2015, his Ohio University students nominated him for a Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award, and he became the first journalism instructor to win the award in eight years. He is currently the faculty adviser for the William Paterson chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and he is the only two-time recipient in the 43-year history of the Society’s prestigious Outstanding Campus Chapter Adviser Award, in 2019 and 2021. He has also served on the boards of the SPJ chapters in New Jersey and New York City. Hirshon was previously a reporter from 2005 to 2011 at the New York Daily News, where he amassed more than 1,000 bylines covering a mixture of breaking and community news. He also wrote three series that sparked efforts to save historic sites such as the former home of baseball player Jackie Robinson and the longest continuously operated movie theater in the United States. In 2010, Hirshon received an award from a prominent historic preservation group, the Historic Districts Council, for his coverage of forgotten sites in the borough of Queens. He has also freelanced for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Hockey News.
Associate Professor or Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago Nebiyou Tilahun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research focuses on travel behavior, accessibility, and transportation safety, with a focus on equity and aligning policy with user preferences. His recent works examine the safety and equity implications of automated traffic enforcement, young adults' travel behavior, and the transit last mile problem. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota and has been a faculty member at UIC since 2012.
Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Warwick I am an applied micro economist with an interest in labour and urban economics. My research spans topics including labour market power (such as monopsony) and its sources, minimum wages, atypical work arrangements (such as zero-hours contracts and the gig economy) and the housing market. I have also done extensive policy work on Brexit. In my research I use quasi-experimental methods and large micro datasets alongside theory to try to answer policy relevant questions.
PhD Candidate, Political Science, Western University I have an Honours Double Major in Political Science and Economics at Huron University College. I then went on to get my Masters in Political Science at Western University. I am currently a PhD Candidate at Western University. I am currently the Co-Chair of The Graduate Association of Political Science. This position allows me to organize methodological workshops and social events for political science graduate students. I have also been a Teaching Assistant for the following classes: Canadian Politics and Data Science. Through these classes, I have taught students and gained a better knowledge base as an educator. In addition to these roles, I have also taught data science workshops with GLOCAL, a digital civic engagement non-for-profit. I have also worked as a Research Assistant on projects in Gender Canadian Politics and Political Psychology. I have helped collect conversation data in a lab setting using facial recognition technology and physiological data in a lab-in-the-field setting including, heart rate, skin conductance, blood volume pulse and skin temperature. You can learn more about these experiences via my CV/Resume.
Associate Professor and MTP Connect REDI Industry Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Nham is both a teacher and a cancer researcher, specialising in small RNA biology and diagnostic technologies. He has dedicated his career to creating tools for diagnosing diseases. Nham earned his PhD from Johnson and Johnson and UNSW, where he focused on studying small RNA molecules and how they can be used in real-world applications. During his postdoctoral training, Nham led a team that published the first study characterising microRNAs in head and neck cancers. This groundbreaking research led him to come up with the idea of using these microRNAs as markers to detect Head and Neck Cancers early on. He was also the first to understand the role of these molecules in salivary gland tumors and holds several patents in this area. Currently, he's leading a team of researchers who are studying the RNA aspects of oral cancers. Aside from his work, Nham is an educator and served as the Deputy Head of School for Teaching (2019-2022). He teaches engineering students about molecular diagnostics, runs workshops on qPCR, and is involved in mentoring programs. In his free time, Nham loves going rock climbing in the Blue Mountains with his family, exploring different parts of the world, writing awesome science papers, and building PCR machines.
