Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies; Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History, University of Toronto Professor Hill joined the University of Toronto in July 2017 and has a joint appointment as an Associate Professor with the Department of History and the Centre for Indigenous Studies. Prior to coming to U of T, she served as Associate Professor of History, and Director of the First Nations Studies Program at Western University from 2010-2017 and at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2004-2010. Professor Hill’s academic training includes a PhD in Native Studies from Trent University, MA in American Studies from SUNY-Buffalo, BA in history from the University of Michigan and language immersion programs through Onkwawanna Kentyohkwa (Kanyen’keha/Mohawk) and Grand River Employment & Training (Gayogohono/Cayuga). Professor Hill’s research interests include Haudenosaunee history, Indigenous research methodologies and ethics, and Indigenous territoriality, with themes that benefit Indigenous communities while expanding academic understandings of Indigenous thought and philosophy. She is particularly interested in Haudenosaunee knowledge and thought, seeking to make sense of contemporary lives through an examination of how people got to where they are now, both literally and figuratively. Her 2017 book, The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee land tenure on the Grand River, published by the University of Manitoba Press, takes up these themes in a provocative way.
Senior lecturer in Cybersecurity Intelligence and Digital Forensics, University of Portsmouth Soraya has been the Mobile Forensics, Computer Forensics, and Business Information System Security lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and a Cyber Volunteer at Hampshire Constabulary. She has worked as a freelance forensic investigator for HMP Prisons in the south-east and has over ten years of experience in the computing and forensics field. She has taught digital forensics, mobile forensics, and anti-forensics to private companies and law enforcement investigators. She has also worked for Microsoft and CISCO as a Technical Instructor and continues to do it freelance. She has contributed as a coach to several cyber competitions such as Hackathons, Tryhackme and Cyber912.
Professor of Marketing, University of Montana I am a professor of marketing and have worked at UM for 15 years. I have a PhD in Marketing from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sibiu, Romania. Before UM I taught for five years at the University of Oregon. Prior to my academic life I was a production engineer and manager in Romania. My current research interests are in sales, services marketing, supply chains and logistics, and international/cross-cultural issues.
Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Florida Stephanie Killingsworth is a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the Neogene Period and has included strontium dating and rare earth elements to calibrate Neogene fossil sites, as well as close examination of fossil horses to understand their evolutionary story.
Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of York Shane O’Rourke began his career as a historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, looking at the history of the Cossacks in particular. He has produced two books on the Cossacks and numerous articles, covering the Cossacks from Muscovite times into the post-Soviet period. Over the past four years he has began to develop an interest in the history of Brazil and is now engaged on a major research project comparing the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 and the slaves in Brazil in 1888. Brazil is also figuring increasingly in his teaching and Shane now offers courses on Brazilian as well as Russian history. Shane’s research interests have changed sharply over the past four years. From being a social historian of Russia, he has now broadened his interests to become a historian of Brazil. His work at the moment is writing a comparison of the emancipation of servile labour in both countries in the second half of the nineteenth century. This will be the first work to compare explicitly Brazil and Russia. As part of this project, he is working on two royal women, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel of Brazil, and their role in the emancipation of servile labour. An article on Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna will be published in Autumn 2011 in The Russian Review.
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University Dr. Sona Kumar is a postdoctoral scholar at Purdue and her work focuses on the development of STEM learning and motivation in early childhood, investigating how caregivers like parents and teachers can best support children’s early engagement and sense of belonging in STEM.
