Professor of Biology, University of Dayton Ryan McEwan received his M.S. from the University of Kentucky in 2002 and his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2006. Dr. McEwan is the principal investigator at the McEwan Laboratory at the University of Dayton, where he currently is involved with research projects such as: - Terrestrial invasion, aquatic consequences - Biodiversity, carbon storage, and typhoon impacts in subtropical forests of Taiwan - Urban ecology and water resources: stormflow effects on aquatic biology within the City of Dayton (Ohio) - Soil microbial effects and restoration of North American temperate forests following invasion - Long-term Dynamics of the Eastern Deciduous Forest of North America
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, CQUniversity Australia PhD in forensic psychology, research is focused on lie detection. Unit coordinator and lecturer, forensic psychology at CQUniversity.
Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and associate professor of political science and African American studies, Penn State Ray Block Jr., PhD, is the Brown-McCourtney Early Career Professor, McCourtney Institute; and an Associate Professor, Political Science and African American Studies Departments, Penn State University. He specializes in the areas of racial and ethnic group politics, political behavior, and public opinion. Ray’s current research explores how members of non-dominant demographic groups translate their psychological attachment to politics into political actions. He is also the RAND Corporation's inaugural Michael D. Rich Chair for Countering Truth Decay.
Professor Emeritus of Geography, Florida International University Ralph Clem is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Florida International University. He was also the founding Director of FIU's Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center in International Studies. His research highlights the geopolitics of Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries and focuses on socioeconomic, military and national security issues. Clem is a Senior Fellow at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at FIU and a Research Affiliate of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also retired from the Air Force, having served as an intelligence officer at the squadron, wing and national agency levels and on the Air Staff in the Pentagon.
Senior Lecturer: Comparative Politics, Newcastle University I am a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics focused on comparative political behaviour, survey, and experimental research. I am also the Politics Postgraduate Research co-Director (with Dr Terri Teo). I have been involved in large survey projects like the Mexican National Elections Study that is part of the Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems. I am a member of the Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública's editorial board and Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Evidence and Governance in Politics network (EGAP) I am interested in supervising postgraduate research students in the area of political psychology focused on electoral behaviour, campaign communication, electoral polls, emotions, prejudice. My research looks at the interaction of prejudice and context on people’s political behaviour. For example, using experimental methods I have looked at the influence of candidates and voters' racial appearance (phenotypes) as well as gender on voters' preferences in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.A. I have also looked at the effect of party labels in Mexico and Uganda. I have analyzed the role of emotions as moderators of political judgment in Hungary. I am also working in projects related to survey and experimental methods. I am interested in investigated the factors that affect the level of accuracy in pre-electoral polls across different contexts. Currently I am developing a project on motivated reasoning in the UK with Dr Michael Traugott. I also enjoy teaching. I have previously taught different courses: 1) Introduction to Comparative Politics; 2) Psychological Processes of Racial Prejudice in the U.S.A.; 3) Construction of Mexico's National Identity and Racial Ideology; 4) Public Opinion and Political Behavior; and 5) Political Psychology and Experimental Methods.
Associate Professor of Economics, Agnes Scott College Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and was a pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University. She is currently an Associate Professor at Agnes Scott College. Professor Oyelere’s research interests include education, conflict, housing, social networks, inequality and poverty. Her past research is published in leading economic journals.
