Assistant Professor of Accounting, Purdue University Thomas Godwin's research and teaching interests include tax, data analytics, fraud and forensic accounting, financial accounting, ethics, and managerial accounting. He has a Ph.D. in Accounting from Purdue University, a M.P.Acc. in Tax from Clemson University, and a B.S. in Accounting from Clemson University. Dr. Godwin is also a licensed CPA and holds a CGMA designation. Prior to entering academia, he worked in tax consulting and compliance at a national public accounting firm, primarily serving large private equity clients and publicly-traded corporations. Dr. Godwin will join the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University in 2023 as a Professor of Practice. He is also a national instructor and contributing editor for Becker Professional Education.
Chercheur en socioéconiomie (CERMi, ULB), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Chercheur en socioéconomie, membre du CERMi à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles et post-doctoral fellow de la Fondation AXA pour la recherche.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University Black Girl Stories/Black Studies Dr. Treisha Hylton is a Black Feminist interdisciplinary scholar in the field of Social Work, Child and Youth Care, and Criminology. Dr. Hylton’s research and teaching is centered in Black Studies and particularly focused on Black Girls, Women, Sports and Community Engagement.
Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University Ted Steinberg has worked as a U.S. historian for more than 25 years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961, Steinberg received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1989 under the supervision of David Hackett Fischer, Donald Worster, and Morton Horwitz. He spent three years at the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. He has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2006 he was the B. Benjamin Zucker Fellow at Yale University. Steinberg’s publications have focused on the intersection of environmental, social, and legal history. His books are: "American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn" (W. W. Norton, 2006); "Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History" (Oxford University Press, 2002; 2nd ed., 2009; 3rd ed., 2013; National Outdoor Book Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in History); "Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America" (Oxford University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., 2006; Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in General Non-Fiction); "Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Nature" (University of California Press, 1995); and "Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England" (Cambridge University Press, 1991; Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History; Old Sturbridge Village E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize). Steinberg has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Natural History, Orion, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Guardian and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane, The Leonard Lopate Show, The Dennis Prager Show, The Michael Smerconish Show, Marketplace Money,You Bet Your Garden, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Mischke Broadcast, Martha Stewart Living Radio, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Penn and Teller: Bullshit and CBS Sunday Morning. His work has been discussed in print by Malcolm Gladwell, Ellen Goodman, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jeff Sharlet, and Margaret Talbot. Steinberg’s latest book is titled "Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York" (Simon & Schuster, 2014). It examines the ecological changes that have made New York the city that it is today.
Taifha Natalee Alexander currently serves as the CRT Forward Project Director at UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program where she leads the law school's response to the attacks on Critical Race Theory, alongside a team of faculty, staff, and student researchers. Taifha graduated, with honors, from both Georgetown Law and UCLA School of Law. Taifha has over twelve years of experience in higher education. Her legal studies and research are focused at the intersection of law, critical race studies, higher education, social justice, and equity. While a law student at Georgetown, Taifha’s article, We Cant Breathe: How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate an Inclusive Climate, was published in the Georgetown Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives. Since earning her J.D., Taifha has served in roles at University of South Carolina Aiken, UCLA, and Wofford College, to manifest the recommendations she put forth in her article. Her most recent article, Chopped & Screwed: Hip-Hop from Cultural Expression to a Means for Criminal Enforcement, was published in the Harvard Journal for Sports and Entertainment Law. Taifha’s commitment to equity, justice, and anti-racism was fostered at St. John’s University in Queens, NY, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies.
Toner Stevenson is an honorary affiliate in History at The University of Sydney and a Doctor of Social Sciences. Her career has been mainly in museums including: Manager of Sydney Observatory, Head of House Museums for Sydney Living Museums, Manager Exhibitions Co-ordination for the Powerhouse Museum and Project Manager for the Natural History Museum, London. Toner is active in amateur astronomy and citizen science as past President, Sydney City Skywatchers (BAA NSW Branch), and she is a member of the Royal Society of NSW. Her research is in the history of astronomy in Australia.
