Contributors

Stacie Waites

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Sofia Christidi

Lecturer in Marketing, University of South Wales

Lecturer in Marketing, University of South Wales I am a marketing lecturer at the University of South Wales and a PhD candidate at Newcastle University Business School. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach, looking at consumption through a cultural lens. I have conducted research in the area of consumer identity tensions through an interpretive, narrative approach. For example, I have studied the role of material objects in inter-generational relationships characterised by excess. My PhD thesis explores consumption during external instability, looking at consumer meaning-making and self-identity transformation processes during an extended economic transition in the context of the post 2008 Greek financial crisis.

Sarah Taouk

Lecturer, School of Education, Australian Catholic University

Lecturer, School of Education, Australian Catholic University Dr Sarah Taouk is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the Australian Catholic university. Specialising in science and STEM education. Sarah's research experience begins in medical research where she spent over 10 years researching Respiratory Disorders such as Asthma and Lymphangiolyomyomatosis (LAM). Moving into education as a tertiary science educator, her research focus includes looking at Asynchronous online learning and addressing teacher confidence when teaching science. Current project collaborations include: investigating engagement and connectedness of students in online Asynchronous platforms in ITE, and research in changing the way ITE students feel about teaching science.

Saima Ahmad

Senior lecturer, Business Administration, RMIT University

Senior lecturer, Business Administration, RMIT University

Samuel Winton

Postgraduate Researcher, University of Portsmouth

Postgraduate Researcher, University of Portsmouth Sam Winton is a postgraduate researcher who has been working for the Revolution Plastics Institute at the University of Portsmouth since its creation in 2020. Additionally, Sam is currently conducting his PhD studies titled ‘To what extent has the structure and implementation of the INC process facilitated the development of an effective Global Plastics Treaty?’ at the University of Portsmouth and the University of Surrey. With a background in environmental hazards and community preparedness, his main research focus is working with communities and a broad range of stakeholders to tackle environmental challenges. Sam has also conducted work with international organisations to create policies to tackle the global plastics problem and facilitate sustainable development.

Samantha Noël

Associate Professor of Art History, Wayne State University

Associate Professor of Art History, Wayne State University Samantha A. Noël is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. Her research interests revolve around the history of art, visual culture and performance of the Black Diaspora. She has published on Black modern and contemporary art and performance in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text and Art Journal and has articles forthcoming in the journals October, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and Third Text. Noël has also contributed essays to exhibition catalogues as well as chapters to the following edited volumes: Carnival is Women: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas’ and Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts. Noël’s book, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, 2021), offers a thorough investigation of how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century were responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. It privileges the land and how a sense of place is critical in the identity formation of early twentieth-century artists as well as their creative processes. By proposing an alternative understanding of the tropics, this book demonstrates how Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and some masqueraders and designers of Trinidad Carnival effectively contributed to the development of Black modernity, and even Black sonic modernity. Noël is working on a second book tentatively titled Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power. This book seeks to examine the impact of the Black Power Movement on visual art as it emerged in the political, historical, and social contexts of the United States of America and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it aims to identify instances in which the iterations of the Third World Left in the United States and the Caribbean crossed paths and determined a need for internationalism in black creative expression during the 1960s and 1970s that worked in tandem with the political radicalism of that era. Noël was the 2021-2022 Smithsonian Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her research has also been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Moreau Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. At Wayne State, Noël has received the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Faculty Creative/Research Award, the Wayne State University Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, the Wayne State University Office of the Provost’s University Research Grant, and the 2023 Arts and Humanities Research Support Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research.