Contributors

Peter Allen

Peter Allen is lecturer in Film and Television, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and an award winning filmmaker and educator with a specific interest in effects and animation.

Conor Deane-McKenna

Doctoral Researcher in Cyberwarfare, University of Birmingham

Bernard Ryan

Bernard Ryan became Professor of Migration Law at the University of Leicester in September 2013. He was previously Professor of Law at the University of Kent. He is the co-chair of the Migration and Law Network, which aims to promote the field of migration law in British universities. Bernard’s research interests cover the field of migration law and policy. He is especially interested in the following areas: The legal framework relating to irregular migration International law relating to migration The implications of diversity for migration law and policy The relationships between labour migration and employment law.

Katherine Meizel

Katherine Meizel earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also holds D.M.A., M.M., and bachelor’s degrees in vocal performance. Her research has focused on voices and vocalities, and topics including popular music and media, religion, American identities, and disability studies. She also has an interest in performing American old time music. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol was published by Indiana University Press in early 2011; she also wrote about Idol for the magazine Slate from 2007 to 2011. Other publications have appeared in Popular Music and Society, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, MUSICultures, The Voice and Speech Review, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, eHumanista, and several edited collections. She is currently co-editor of the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies. At BGSU, Dr. Meizel teaches courses in music and identity, world musics, and seminars in ethnomusicology.

Chris Thompson

Chris is a lecturer in chemistry at Monash University, specialising in chemistry education, while moonlighting in high resolution spectroscopy using the Australian Synchrotron. Chris originally studied Bachelor degrees in both Science and Arts at the Australian National University before completing his PhD at Monash University, and spending time as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Robert Herian

I hold a BA(hons) in American Studies from King's College, London, and an LLM from Birkbeck College, London, where I am also in the final stages of a PhD examining the law of equity via critical theory, including psychoanalysis. I am a lecturer in law at the Open University and also a guest lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. I have written, presented and published on a wide range of topics, including papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and also in edited collections on law and its relationships with cultures and societies. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and one of the founders of the Equity & Trusts Research Network.