Contributors

Will Thomas

Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan

Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan Will Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Business Law at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and an expert on corporate and white-collar crime. He earned his both his JD and Phd in philosophy from the University of Michigan, and his BA from Columbia University.

William Garriott

Professor of Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University

Professor of Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University William Garriott is Professor and Chair of the Law, Politics, and Society Program at Drake University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law, crime, and criminal justice, with specific interest in drugs, addiction, and policing. He is the author of Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America as well as the edited collections Addiction Trajectories, Policing and Contemporary Governance, and The Anthropology of Police. His work has appeared in journals such as Anthropological Theory and Law and Social Inquiry, where he also serves on the editorial board. He is former coeditor-in-chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. He currently serves as coeditor of the book series, Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance with Cornell University Press. He is currently completing a book on marijuana legalization. Professor Garriott teaches courses in the core LPS curriculum, including Introduction to Law, Politics, and Society; Critical Concepts in Law, Politics, and Society; and Senior Seminar. His elective courses include Law and Order, Crime and Film, and Drugs, Law, and Society.

Whitney Monaghan

Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University

Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University Dr. Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines the representation of gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not ‘Just a Phase’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019).

Wendy Ward

PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University

PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University I am currently working part-time towards a practice-based PhD titled 'Enduring Fashion: Building Sustainable Clothing Practices Through Wearer-Garment Relationships. Sustainability in fashion has been a long running theme throughout my academic and professional career: I was the only student on my BA looking at the environmental impact of the fashion industry when I graduated in 2000 and explored novel ways to recycle textiles for my MA in 2004. I worked as a designer for a niche ethical fashion business and have written craft books designed to empower people to do fashion their own way. Clothes and how people use them is at the heart of what makes me tick.

William Rees

PhD Candidate in Modern American History, University of Exeter

PhD Candidate in Modern American History, University of Exeter I am a PhD candidate at The University of Exeter studying modern American history. I am particularly interested in how music has reflected and shaped US culture and politics in the late twentieth-century. This research has ranged between indigenous EDM, psychedelic rock and disco. My interests outside of research include tea and bass guitar. I do a history blog and podcast: https://willdoeshistory.wordpress.com/

Wesley Chang

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University Dr. Wes Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at Drexel University. Wes completed his BS (2014) and MS (2016) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford, and his PhD (2021) in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Princeton. After completing his doctoral thesis, he continued working on lithium metal batteries as a Postdoc at Columbia University in collaboration with electric vehicle companies. He spent the following year (2022 – 2023) as the Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, where he worked on lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis. He is the recipient of the Electrochemical Society F.M. Becket Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. Outside of academia, he has previously worked in the battery industry and management consulting for energy and utilities, and regularly serves as a technical advisor to energy-focused startup companies and investment firms.