Contributors

Ryan Josiah Bramley

Lecturer in Education, University of Sheffield

Lecturer in Education, University of Sheffield Ryan is a lecturer, filmmaker and arts-based researcher at the University of Sheffield's School of Education. His work explores how minoritised groups are represented in film, TV, media, education, and beyond. Ryan's recent projects include 'My Media, My Power, My World', 'Evaluating Trespass Prevention', and 'Rethinking Deafness, Film and Accessibility'.

Rachel Gur-Arie

Assistant Professor of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University

Assistant Professor of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University Rachel Gur-Arie is an assistant professor with Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Her expertise lies at the intersection of ethics, global health and policy. Prior to joining ASU, she was a Hecht-Levi postdoctoral Fellow, focused on ethics and infectious disease, jointly appointed at the Berman Institute of Bioethics of Johns Hopkins University and The Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford, supported by the Wellcome Trust. She completed her doctorate in health systems management and served as a Fulbright Scholar at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Reid Gerbrandt

MA Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba

MA Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba Masters Student with the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba, with a particular focus in the area of genocide studies.

Rachel Maguire

Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London

Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London Rachel is a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include intellectual property law, media law, technology, internet culture and creativity. Her current research focuses on socio-legal analyses of copyright law in the context of online creativity, and on legal responses to technology-based violence such as online harassment and doxxing.

Rebecca T. Alpert

Professor of Religion Emerita, Temple University

Professor of Religion Emerita, Temple University Rebecca T. Alpert is Professor of Religion Emerita at Temple University. She attended Barnard College before receiving her Ph.D. in religion at Temple University and her rabbinical training at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach, author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition and Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism as well as several edited volumes and numerous articles. Her specialization is religion in America, and with a focus on sports, sexuality, and race. She has recently taught courses on religion in American public life; Jews, America and sports, and sexuality in world religions. Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2011. Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies was published by Columbia University Press in May 2015. An edited anthology with Arthur Remillard, Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sport, was published by Mercer University Press in November 2019.

Rachelle Welti

Lecturer, The University of Melbourne

Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Dr Rachelle Welti graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Biomedicine and Doctor of Dental Surgery. She has worked as a dentist in both public and private settings and holds the role of Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry at Melbourne Dental School. Rachelle is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne on antibiotics and management of paediatric odontogenic infections. She is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in Primary Dental Sciences and appointed member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry (Vic) and eviDent Foundation Development Committee.