Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa I'm a political theorist with an interdisciplinary background in law, politics, and philosophy. One stream of my work focuses on crisis government and states of emergency: my first book was 'States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies' (Cambridge, 2009/13). Other streams of research focus on political temporality, political rhetoric, and political legitimacy : these came together in my second book 'Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time' (Yale, 2019). My current work also engages the role of pleasure in political thought, and I'm at work on a third book for a mass audience on apocalyptic politics.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University Naomi Lightman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her areas of research expertise include migration, care work, gender, inequality, and research methodology. Her academic work has been published in journals including European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, International Migration Review and the Social Politics. In addition, she is the co-author of the second edition of the textbook Social Policy in Canada. Dr. Lightman has collaborated on research focused on immigration, race, and inequality with various social agencies and government bodies including Social Planning Toronto, the Wellesley Institute, the Calgary Local Immigration Partnership and the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association.
Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music - Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Natalia Kogut graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University in 2005, PhD in Law was awarded at Institute of State and Law named after V. Korezkiy of NAS (Ukraine). From 2009 till 2012 she was employed on different positions as a lawyer – from leading council to head of legal department of the Research Institute. She was combining legal practise with teaching. After fleeing the war in Ukraine Dr Natalia Kogut held position of the research fellow in the University of Birmingham at the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures, Art, History and Music. Sphere of scientific interests of Dr Natalia Kogut include: right to life and health, healthcare systems, ecological law, migrants’ rights, historical memory of migrants. The project with which she is dealing now is a Post Socialist Britain, where research is being conducted in the sphere of migrants and refugees’ welcoming, historical memory of migrants, aspiration and hopes of migrants. Also, Natalia Kogut is a specialist in human rights, right to health, comparative analyse of health care systems in different countries, she published quite a few articles in the sphere in scientific journals.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick Ph.D. Law and Society (UVic), LL.M. (McGill), LL.B. (Saskatchewan), B.A. (Hons) (Regina), B.Sc. (Queen’s)
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State Nichola D. Gutgold is professor of communication at Penn State University, Lehigh Valley campus. She is author of a number of books and scholarly articles on women in politics including: Electing Madam President: When Women Run, Women Win; Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, co-authored with Diana Carlin and Theodore Sheckels.
Final year PhD student researching Sylvia Plath's nature poetry, University of Huddersfield I have a BA Honours in English and MA in Twentieth Century Literature from the University of Leeds. I am currently in my final year of PhD research at the University of Huddersfield. I am researching ecological readings of Sylvia Plath's poetry. I am also a qualified English teacher; I spent 12 years working as Head of Literature at a prestigious sixth form college in Yorkshire. I currently work part time in a high school in London, whilst I complete my doctorate.
