Professor of Religion and Politics, Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews Mario I Aguilar is Professor of Religion and Politics, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K. He is the author of several works on Pope Francis, including Pope Francis: His Life and Thought (2014), and Pope Francis: Journeys of a Peacemaker (2022). He has worked in African countries for the past 35 years after his doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
Doctoral Candidate in Economics, University of California, San Diego Carlos Góes is the founder of Instituto Mercado Popular, a São Paulo-based think tank. He has previously worked as Senior Economic Advisor at the Office of the President of Brazil and as a researcher at the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and U.S. think tanks. His work has been featured in global outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, El País and Le Monde. His research spans over different topics (including trade, economic development, and income inequality). Góes has been named one of the “30 persons every investor should follow” by Infomoney, a Brazilian finance magazine, and is an economics columnist for O Globo, a major Brazilian newspaper. In 2016, he founded Instituto Mercado Popular, which focuses on designing evidence-based public policy marrying the goals of social inclusion and fiscal responsibility. The Institute’s research has been used in Brazilian congressional committees as official grounds for debate and decisions, as well as quoted in the national and international press. Góes is a PhD candidate in Economics (UC San Diego), holds a MA in International Economics (Johns Hopkins SAIS), and a BA in International Relations (University of Brasilia). A coding enthusiast, he works in Python, Stata, Eviews, LaTeX, R, Julia, and Matlab.
Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Marc-Andreas Muendler is Professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he is starting up the Globalization and Prosperity Lab. He is a Research Professor at the ifo Institute Munich, Germany, a Guest Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Muendler has published in leading economic journals on the origins of globalization and its consequences for local industries and labor markets, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, and information economics. Muendler's research revolves around local impacts of global markets.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University Emily Farris (M.A., Ph.D. Brown University; B.A. Furman University) is an associate professor in Political Science at TCU, who currently completing a book on the power of U.S. sheriffs.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Dallas Since graduating with a Ph.D. in 2016, I've published two refereed journal articles and one monograph with Cornell University Press. My research, which was recently published as a monograph by Cornell University Press in April of 2022, is titled The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement. This book is an intellectual history that offers the first historical account delineating how politically motivated white conservative evangelicals who make up the religious right ultimately learned to oppose environmental protection efforts including climate change over the last fifty years.
Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell Joshua Long received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice in 2020. He has published research on juvenile drug court evaluations, risk assessment validation, prison classification, and matching treatment to the needs of justice involved clients. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he teaches classes on the corrections system, victimology, and research methods.
