Contributors

Valerio Capraro

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Milano-Bicocca

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Milano-Bicocca I'm an associate professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca. I studied mathematics but later turned into a social scientist. I use behavioral experiments, mathematical modeling, and numerical simulations to study cooperation, honesty, and other moral behaviors.

Victoria Reyes-García

Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Victoria Reyes-García (PhD in anthropology, 2001, U of Florida) is ICREA research professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, particularly in relation to the natural environment, and on the relevance of these knowledge systems to understand and deal with the climate and environmental crises. She co-directs the Laboratory of Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems in a Global World (LASEG), a research group that analyses the impacts of global change on socio-ecosystems. Her current ERC-funded project (LICCI) studies local perceptions of climate change impacts. She participates in the Transformative Change Report of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She is member of the National Academy of Science, USA ( 2021) and the Academie d'Agriculture de France (2022).

Vandinika Shukla

Fellow, Practicing Democracy Project, Harvard Kennedy School

Fellow, Practicing Democracy Project, Harvard Kennedy School Vandinika Shukla has over a decade of experience in gender and human rights policy, movement building and emerging technology. She has designed national gender policies at the United Nations, built civic engagement AI products and partnerships at MIT Media Lab, launched a community organizing portfolio at Harvard, and founded organizations to amplify unheard stories for stronger democracies. For her work she has been recognized as a young leader by the G20 and the European Commission. Vandinika is a Reporting Fellow at Tech Policy Press. She writes on technology and democracy, movement building, gender justice, women’s political participation, and international relations. Her work has been featured in Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, Tech Policy Press, All Tech Is Human, Indian Express, and other Indian national dailies. As a Belfer Fellow, she has published her research on platform policy to mitigate online harm against journalists and served as the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Kennedy Review. Vandinika holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She currently teaches movement building for marginalized communities and democratic leadership and works at the intersection of democracy and technology.

Viktoriia Medvied

PhD researcher, School of English, University of St Andrews

PhD researcher, School of English, University of St Andrews Viktoriia Medvied (she, her, hers) is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing and Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews. Her research is about writing Ukrainian children’s literature after February 2022 and the translation of the unspeakable into language through cognitive metaphor, narrative psychology, fairytale, and bibliotherapy. Other research interests include multilingualism in Ukrainian children’s literature, specifically the use of surzhyk, a speech practice* mixing Russian and Ukrainian that is underrepresented in young adult prose. Viktoriia is a published author for children in Ukrainian and translates contemporary Ukrainian children’s literature into English.

Vickie B. Sullivan

Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

Professor of Political Science, Tufts University Vickie Sullivan is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science and teaches and studies political thought and philosophy. She also maintains teaching and research interests in politics and literature. Her most recent book is "Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe" published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017. She is also the author of "Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England" published by Cambridge University Press in 2004 and issued in paperback in 2006; and of "Machiavelli’s Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed" published by Northern Illinois University Press in 1996 and reissued by Cornell University Press in paperback in 2020. She has also edited two volumes: "The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli: Essays on the Literary Works" published by Yale University Press in 2000; and "Shakespeare’s Political Pageant: Essays in Politics and Literature," with Joseph Alulis, published by Rowman & Littlefield Press in 1996. Her articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Polity, and Review of Politics. Her current project is tentatively entitled "Modern Empires, Political and Philosophical."

Valérie Duplat

Associate Professor of business strategy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Associate Professor of business strategy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Dr. Valérie Duplat is Associate Professor of Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (SBE). Before joining the Vrije Universiteit, Valérie was a faculty member at the EDHEC Business School, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. During her Ph.D., Valérie visited the University of Maastricht for nine months and the University of Michigan for one year and a half. In June 2013, she obtained the Junior Faculty Award granted by the FNEGE (French Foundation for Management Education). Thanks to this Award, Valérie visited the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, for six months in 2014. In 2016 and 2022, she visited the Univesrity of Colorado (Leeds School of Business). Since September 2021, Valérie is coordinator of the Minor in Business Administration entitled "New Ways of Doing Business" at the VU Amsterdam. She has also acted as bachelor and master thesis coordinator in strategy and organization since 2016. In December 2023, she was appointed Associate Editor for Business Strategy & Organizational Theory for the European Management Journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-management-journal).