Contributors

Rhiannon Emm

PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London

PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London Rhiannon is a third-year PhD candidate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Her research focuses on the concept of 'home' in international political perspective, with auxiliary interests in the philosphy of social science and island studies.

Rebecca Trelease

Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology

Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology Māori Early Career Academic at AUT University. Research Fellow 2018-2019, Senior Lecturer 2019 - current. PhD Topic - Four Case Studies in Entertainment Reality Television; Survivor, The Bachelor, The Real Housewives, and American Idol. (AUT, Awarded 2022). Master of Educational Leadership (AUT, Awarded 2022). McAlister, J. and Trelease, R. Scandalous romance down under: Becoming and unbecoming a heroine in The Bachelor/ette Australia and The Bachelorette New Zealand. Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12. 2023 (Journal Article) Trelease, R. The Survivor cross-season narrative and its debt to soap opera. Journal of Popular Culture 54(3):495-514. 2021 (Journal Article) Johnson, R. and Trelease, R. Glocalization, Hard-won Status and Performative Femininity: A Case Study of The Real Housewives Format. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 3(2):324-341. 2018 (Journal Article)

Richard Marcantonio

Assistant Professor of Environment, Peace, and Global Affairs at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame

Assistant Professor of Environment, Peace, and Global Affairs at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame I am a researcher, teacher, and practitioner focused on regenerative and durable livelihoods, environmental management and policy, environmental and other violence, and peacebuilding. He is the author of Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche (2022; Cambridge University Press), co-author of the textbook Environmental Management: Concepts and Practical Skills (2022; Cambridge University Press), and lead co-editor (with John Paul Lederach and Agustin Fuentes) of Environmental Violence Explored (in press; Cambridge University Press). He has published numerous peer-reviewed, policy, and public facing articles in periodicals ranging from Climate and Development to Environmental Science and Policy to the popular periodical the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

Raymond Offenheiser

Professor of global affairs, director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, University of Notre Dame

Professor of global affairs, director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, University of Notre Dame Offenheiser served as the inaugural William J. Pulte Director of the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development, where he oversaw and developed the Pulte Institute’s academic, research, and public policy activities, as well as its strategy for long-term growth. He also identified and cultivated critical, strategic partnerships between the institute and companies, federal agencies, foundations, and private philanthropists. Additionally, he represented the Pulte Institute at local, national, and international events. A widely known nonprofit leader and innovator with a broad range of international development experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Offenheiser served as president of Oxfam America for 20 years. Under his leadership, the agency grew eightfold and repositioned itself in the United States as an influential voice on international development, human rights and governance, humanitarianism, and foreign assistance. Prior to joining Oxfam, Offenheiser represented the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in Brazil and Colombia, and he has worked for Save the Children Federation in Mexico. At the 2012 G20 Summit, he was appointed by the Obama administration to represent civil society interests on the leadership council of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa. Offenheiser has served as honorary president of Wetlands International, and he was a co-founder of the ONE Campaign, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and the Food Policy Action Network. He has served on the advisory boards of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute, the World Agricultural Forum, the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Cornell University. A 1971 graduate of Notre Dame, Offenheiser also holds a master’s degree in development sociology from Cornell University. He currently serves as chair of the board of directors for BRAC USA is the US-based affiliate of international development organization BRAC, one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world, which reaches more than 100 million people in 11 countries with evidence-based approaches that assist families to break out of the cycle of poverty. He also serves on the board of the Consensus Building Institute and the Oxfam America Action Fund and on the Forum for Corporate Responsibility of the BHP Corporation and the advisory board of the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA). Offenheiser has been a frequent commentator with US and international media.

Richard Bayliss

Professor of Molecular Medicine, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds

Professor of Molecular Medicine, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds I’m a structural biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Leeds. My team studies the functions and interactions of proteins using structural, cell, chemical and computational biology approaches. We work towards understanding the molecular mechanisms that underpin cellular functions and how these events are altered in human diseases such as cancer. In partnership with other scientists, we develop precision drugs that are tailored to individual proteins.

Raymond G. De Vries

Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan

Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Raymond De Vries PhD is Professor emeritus in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan and is a Professor emeritus in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also Professor emeritus at CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the regulation of science and the production of scientific knowledge; clinical trials of genetic therapies; the export of western moral traditions to non-western societies; and the social, ethical, and policy issues associated with the medicalization of pregnancy and birth. In 2005 he published A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press), and he is co-editor of The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell, 2007), Bioethics in the Field, a special issue of Social Science in Medicine (2013), and Critical Studies of Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care (Palgrave, forthcoming).