Assistant Director of American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis Noah Cohan is Assistant Director of American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His research and teaching are oriented to the intersection of American sports, fan cultures, and narratives, particularly as they pertain to race and gender. Cohan’s book, We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sports, was published in 2019 by the University of Nebraska Press. He is Coordinator Emeritus of the Sports Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association, co-convener of the AMCS program initiative in Sports and Society: Culture, Power, and Identity, and co-creator of Whereas Hoops, a multimedia work of scholarship and activism aimed at getting basketball hoops installed in St. Louis’s Forest Park.
Bachelor of Design (Honours) Convenor and Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Australian National University Naomi is a Lecturer in the School of Art and Design, ANU, and researcher with the Institute for Climate, Energy, and Disaster Solutions (ICEDS). She holds a Bachelor Degree in the Built Environment (Int.Des.)(QUT), a Master of Design Futures (Hons.) (Griffith), and a PhD in Design (Griffith). Naomi’s research focuses on the role of design in strengthening community resilience for sustainable futures, where design is examined as a change agent in the arena of disaster risk and adaptive capacity in a changing climate. She has a strong commitment to the development of socially and environmentally responsible design practice working on collaborative projects with community, industry partners, regional councils, and not for profit groups. Specifically, she has extensive experience across stakeholder relations, co-design processes, and best practice processes on multi-actor teams.
Academic chair of journalism, Murdoch University Narelle is a journalism lecturer and investigative journalist who has worked for leading news websites and newspapers. Her two-decade journalistic career began at Nature Magazine and she have worked across a range of media in TV news, online and print. As Academic Chair of journalism at Murdoch University, Narelle runs the course across two countries and has been awarded a Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy. As a freelance reporter, Narelle regularly reports on breaking WA news in politics, courts, health and police for publications, such as The Guardian. She specialises in environment, science and social equity issues and has investigated asbestos contamination in Wittenoom, groundwater mining, live export and state homelessness.
Instructor of Physics, Quinnipiac University Nicole Granucci received her B.S. in Physics from UCONN, a M.S. in Science Education from the University of New Haven and M.S. in Applied Physics-Optics at Southern Connecticut State University. She has taught both public and private high school physics and astronomy for over 10 years. She came to Quinnipiac as an Adjunct Professor of Physics in 2015 and became a full time Instructor of Physics in Fall 2019. She has worked on several astronomy research projects through NITARP (NASA/IPAC Teacher Achieve Research Program) where she has taken students to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meetings to present posters in astronomy research. She is continuously looking for new ways to engage students in authentic astronomy research and traveling to present their research. She currently is the physics lab coordinator for Phy101L, PHY110L, and PHY111L. She teaches PHY101L Lecture during the semester and has taught PHY110 and PHY111 lecture as well. She interested in Physics Education and strives to produce an engaging environment for learning. She is introducing a new course called Physics of Music where it is an interdisciplinary study of the merging between understanding music and sound with the physics behind it. She will discuss the mathematics of sound, how instruments produce sound and how digital music is produced using physics. She plays string bass & trumpet in the Southern Connecticut University Band and plays electric bass & sings for a rock cover band. She has an extensive music background and likes to play piano and produce in her free time.
Research Fellow, School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong Nigel Spence is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, a casual academic at the University of New South Wales and Study Manager for the SAHAR project that is investigating culturally sensitive DV screening and response strategies in refugee settlement services. He has a long career in child welfare and international development. Between 2006 and 2019, Nigel was the CEO of international development agency ChildFund Australia, and previously was CEO of the NSW Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) having spent many years in his early career as a social worker working with children in out of home care.
Research Associate / Project Director, Earth to Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University I have a PhD in Geography and Environmental Social Science from University of Exeter (2021), a MSc in Conservation Science from the University of Exeter (2016), and a BSc in Management Science from the University of Warwick.
