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Garrett SullivanView profile

Professor

• Renaissance Literature
• Shakespeare Studies
• Early Modern Drama
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Garrett Sullivan is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He specializes in Renaissance literature with particular focus on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and early modern drama. His interdisciplinary research examines embodiment, cognition, and cartography in literary works. Education includes Ph.D. from Brown University (1995) and B.A. from Davidson College (1983). Primary research explores connections between literary production and historical concepts of space, geography, and the body. Publications include monographs on landscape representation, memory in Renaissance drama, sleep in romance literature, and Shakespeare in wartime cinema. Recent work analyzes cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare during World War II. Co-edits the Oxford University Press series Early Modern Literary Geographies and has curated exhibitions at Folger Shakespeare Library. Research supported by NEH and Folger Library fellowships.

• Decision Making
• Risk Literacy
• Cognitive Psychology
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Dr. Jinan Allan is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University's College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, Department of Psychology. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Oklahoma (2021), an MS from the same university (2018), and a BS in Mathematics-Statistics from Michigan Technological University (2015). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Her research focuses on cognitive abilities, statistical numeracy, and their impact on decision-making in contexts like medical scenarios, cybersecurity, and extreme weather risks. She is affiliated with the Media Forensics Hub and teaches courses on judgment and decision-making. Education: PhD Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 2021 MS Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 2018 BS Mathematics-Statistics, Michigan Technological University, 2015 Research emphasizes behavioral science and psychometric methods to develop decision-making metrics. Key themes include risk communication for tornado/hurricane warnings, climate change judgments, and cybersecurity decision-making. Her work bridges cognitive psychology with real-world applications in disaster preparedness and public health. Recent publications analyze extreme weather response patterns, numeracy's role in science comprehension, and probabilistic risk communication strategies. She is currently reviewing graduate student applications for 2025-2026. Affiliations include the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University, indicating interdisciplinary collaboration in digital security and information integrity.

Gregory J. CarboneView profile

Professor

• Climate Variability
• Drought Monitoring
• Climate Change Impacts
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Gregory J. Carbone is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. His research investigates climate variability and change impacts on water resources and agriculture, with emphasis on drought monitoring systems and climate scenario development. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990), M.A. from University of Kansas (1984), and B.A. from Clark University (1982). His research develops tools for drought assessment in data-scarce regions and examines how spatial scale affects climate impact assessments. Research focuses on drought monitoring techniques, climate extremes, and the application of climate information in water resource management. Recent work explores uncertainty in precipitation indices, agricultural sensitivity to drought, and regional climate projections. He co-developed the Carolinas Dynamic Drought Index tool used by water managers. His publications demonstrate consistent innovation in drought monitoring methodologies, with recent advancements in spatial visualization of climate impacts and statistical downscaling techniques. Research integrates geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and statistical modeling. Teaching excellence recognized through multiple awards: Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year (2025) Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award (2012) Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award (2005) He has supervised 6 MS students and served on 50+ thesis committees. Major grants include $3.75 million from NOAA for the Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments program. Professional service includes editorial roles for Physical Geography and leadership in the American Association of Geographers.

Brian GreenspanView profile

Associate Professor

• Digital Humanities
• Utopian Studies
• New Narrative Media
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Brian Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on digital humanities, utopian studies, and new narrative media, particularly exploring intersections between print narratives and emerging technologies like hypertext, video games, and augmented reality. Greenspan co-developed the StoryTrek locative media system, used for creating spatial storytelling projects that merge urban geography with fictional and historical narratives. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has received multiple grants including SSHRC Partnership Grants (2015-18), a Leverhulme International Research Network Grant (2014-16), and a Teaching Achievement Award (2017). His work emphasizes speculative archives and the ethical implications of digital media in cultural preservation and future imaginaries. Greenspan collaborates extensively with institutions like Carleton’s Hyperlab and has delivered keynote lectures globally, including at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Canadian Game Studies Association. His research integrates interdisciplinary approaches to spatial narratives, wearable media, and critical utopian theory. Current projects involve mapping fictional cityscapes onto real urban environments to explore alternate historical and speculative futures. As a supervisor, Greenspan guides doctoral students in areas like digital games, cultural mediations, and narrative transformation. His grants include collaborations on infrastructure development, animation archives, and the political economy of digital games.

Yang ChengView profile

Associate Professor

• Supply Chain Management
• Manufacturing Strategy
• Manufacturing Network
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Yang Cheng is an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution (2011), focusing on manufacturing strategy and network dynamics. His research spans supply chain management, sustainability, and global operations, with a focus on integrating technology and environmental policies into manufacturing systems. He leads or participates in high-impact projects like MAASive (2024–2026) and the Sino-Danish Center Research Project (2011–present), addressing resilience in value networks and global operations innovation. Research Interests: Supply Chain Management & Integration Sustainability & Green Technologies Manufacturing Strategy & Networks Technology Policy & Digitalization Global Operations & Cross-Border Collaboration Recent Work Trends: Prof. Cheng's 2025 articles emphasize blockchain in sustainable supply chains, green technology investments under carbon policies, and digitalization's ethical implications. His 2024 research explores smart factories, EU battery regulations, and robotization in manufacturing. These studies blend quantitative models with case-based analysis to address real-world challenges. Awards: 2024 Emerald Literati Awards – Outstanding Reviewer Advising & Grants: As PI for multiple Global Operations Management PhD programs (2019–2025), he guides research on digital transformation and university-industry collaboration. His projects receive funding from Danish and international grants, focusing on innovation and resilience in manufacturing networks. Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University and engages in international partnerships through the Sino-Danish Center. Active editorial roles include Production Planning & Control and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management .

Stefan GelfgrenView profile

Associate Professor

• Sociology of Religion
• Digital Media and Religion
• Digital Humanities
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Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Senior Lecturer in Didactics of Religion at Umeå University's Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. He holds a PhD in History of Ideas (Umeå University), MPhil in History of Christianity (Birmingham University), and BA in Construction Engineering. His research examines: Social/technical/religious transformations throughout history Digital media's impact on Christian institutions Digital humanities methodologies Surveillance in everyday life Religious geography and mapping Recent publications (2020-2025) focus on digital religion, surveillance ethics, Swedish revivalism, and geospatial humanities. Key trends include institutional adaptation to digitalization and historical continuities in religious media. Awards include the 2022 Erik Allardt Fellowship at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He leads multiple research initiatives: Wallenberg-funded DINO project on digital privacy/social benefit (Co-investigator) Nordic Places of Worship Map (Project Leader) iAccept: Soft Surveillance (Principal Investigator 2017-2021) As former Director of Humlab (2015-2020), he developed digital humanities infrastructure. He chairs the Swedish Association for Sociology of Religion and serves on Umeå University's Faculty Board.

Yogi VidyattamaView profile

Associate Professor

• Spatial Microsimulation
• Economic Growth
• Income Distribution
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Yogi Vidyattama is an Associate Professor at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra. He specializes in spatial microsimulation modeling, economic growth, income distribution, and fiscal decentralization. Previously affiliated with the University of Indonesia, he contributed to regional economic analysis in Indonesia. His research focuses on linking economic policies with spatial outcomes, including corruption determinants, healthcare access, and disaster resilience. Education: PhD in Patterns of Provincial Economic Growth from Australian National University (2008), Master's from ANU (2003), and Bachelor's in Fiscal Decentralisation from University of Indonesia (2000). Research interests include microsimulation modeling, regional economic disparities, and policy impacts. He has led 49 projects, including studies on electric vehicle policy, disaster capability mapping, and regional fast rail economic impacts. His work contributes to UN SDGs related to economic growth, inequality reduction, and disaster resilience. Publications span over 117 outputs, analyzing topics like Indonesia's regional corruption, Australian housing crises, and pandemic policy effects. Awards and recognitions are unspecified, but his roles in executive councils of ANZRSAI and PRSCO highlight peer recognition. Advised 10 students and maintains NATSEM's spatial models and GIS systems.

Joseph OwenView profile

Research Fellow

• Modernist Literature
• Political Theory
• Urban Studies
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Dr Joseph Owen is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, specializing in interdisciplinary studies of literature, politics and place attachment. His research examines pride, civic engagement and decision-making in urban contexts through projects including Feeling Towns and Pathways to Health. Owen serves as specialist policy officer for Public Policy Southampton and co-directs the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing. Research explores relationships between place identity, policy implementation, and community engagement methodologies. Publications demonstrate consistent focus on qualitative approaches to understanding 'pride in place' concepts in urban policy frameworks. Current doctoral supervision includes work on English literature. As co-director of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing, Owen fosters academic collaborations examining literary representations of place and sovereignty.

Susann Baez UllbergView profile

Associate Professor

• Environmental Anthropology
• Disaster Anthropology
• Crisis Management
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Susann Baez Ullberg is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University and is an affiliated researcher at the CNDS Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science. Her work focuses on environmental and disaster anthropology, with a regional emphasis on Latin America, particularly Argentina and Peru. She currently leads the C-URGE project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded initiative training climate anthropologists across Europe. Her research explores disaster memoryscapes, crisis temporality, and groundwater politics, combining ethnographic fieldwork with interdisciplinary collaborations. Notable projects include studying water infrastructure in Peru's Majes Siguas Project and analyzing recovery processes after wildfires in Sweden. She coordinates Uppsala University's Water Initiative and directs the undergraduate program in Cultural Anthropology. Awarded for her 2013 thesis on Santa Fe's flood management, she supervises three PhD students and contributes to policy-relevant research on climate resilience. Her publications span environmental governance, megaprojects, and the socio-political dimensions of disasters.

Anke HagemannView profile

Professor

• Global Commodity Production
• Urban Studies
• Urban Planning
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Prof. Anke Hagemann holds a guest professorship at TU Berlin's Habitat Unit since 2021, focusing on urban-rural transformations and global production networks. She earned a doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from HafenCity University Hamburg in 2023, exploring Istanbul's clothing industry networks. Her academic journey includes interim professorships at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and teaching roles at ETH Zurich, TU Stuttgart, and HafenCity University. Her research spans global commodity production, urban mega-events, and holiday architectures. Notable projects include the DFG-funded 'Transnational Production Spaces' (2016–2019) and BMBF-funded 'Urban Rural Assembly' in China. She has published widely on spatial constellations of global production, including works on Bulgarian post-socialist tourism and Ethiopia's garment industry. Awards include her thesis distinction and grants like the DFG scientific network on global production spaces. Her teaching spans urban design studios and seminars on topics like 'Feeding the City' and 'Global City Local Spaces.' She co-curated exhibitions like 'Shrinking Cities' and contributed to initiatives like the 'Urban Rural Assembly' to address sustainability challenges.

• Political Ecology
• Environmental Justice
• Sustainable Enterprise
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Sharon Moran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). She holds affiliations with Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, including roles as Research Associate Professor in Religion, Affiliated Faculty in Geography, and Co-director of the Certificate of Advanced Study in Sustainable Enterprise (CASSE). Her research focuses on political ecology, sustainable technologies, water policy, and post-communist environmental issues. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University (2000), an M.S. in Political Science/Public Policy from MIT, and a B.A. in Chemistry from Boston University. Research emphasizes community engagement with environmental challenges, such as citizen science projects on lake contaminants, urban waterway restoration, and global sanitation equity. Notable collaborations include work on hurricane risk communication and dam removal impacts in Poland. Moran teaches courses in environmental justice, policy, and sustainable enterprise. She advises graduate students in ESF’s Environmental Studies and GPES programs, focusing on topics like circular economies, international environmental policies, and decolonial sanitation practices. Professional memberships include the Association of American Geographers, Society for the Social Study of Science, and International Society for Religion, Nature, and Culture. Her work bridges environmental science with humanities, advocating for interdisciplinary solutions to global sustainability challenges.

• Development Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Asymmetries in Information
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Alessia Isopi is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester, where she has been since 2011. She holds a PhD from Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata' and a bachelor's degree from LUISS 'Guido Carli' University in Rome. Her research focuses on Development Economics, Asymmetries in Information, and Experimental Economics, with particular attention to topics such as market structures, property rights, and international aid allocation. She teaches Development Economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research explores critical issues like the origins of organized crime through economic lenses, the impact of consultation processes on decision-making, and the mechanisms behind donor-NGO funding dynamics in developing countries. Recent work includes studies on Nigerian polygamous households' resource allocation and Ugandan NGO funding patterns. Dr. Isopi has contributed to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty reduction and equitable development. Her work spans 15+ peer-reviewed articles and working papers, with notable contributions in journals like Theory and Decision and Review of International Organizations . Her research has been highlighted in media outlets such as The Conversation, reaching broader audiences.

• Southeast Asian Studies
• Cultural Anthropology
• Gender Studies
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Eric Charles Thompson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. With a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington and postdoctoral experience at UCLA's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, his academic career spans over two decades. Teaching Focus: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Research Methods Research Specializations: Transnational networking, planetary urbanization, agrarian transitions, and ASEAN regionalism. He has conducted fieldwork across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia, examining urban-rural dynamics and cultural shifts in Malay society. His publications include books on rural Malaysia and ASEAN youth identity, with work appearing in journals like Urban Studies and Current Anthropology . Thompson also serves as co-editor of the Asian Journal of Social Sciences and associate editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies .

Andrea BubenikView profile

Associate Professor

• Renaissance Art
• Baroque Art
• Early Modern Visual Culture
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Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik is an expert in Renaissance and Baroque art, specializing in early modern visual culture. She holds dual affiliations at the University of Queensland: as an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts' Department of Art History, and as an affiliate of three interdisciplinary research centers (Centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History; Centre for Critical and Creative Writing; Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing). Her research focuses on printmaking, art-science intersections, court cultures, and reception histories of iconic artworks. She served as Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2019–2022). Her recent publications include monographs like *Reframing Albrecht Dürer* (2013, AAANZ award winner) and edited volumes such as *The Persistence of Melancholia in Art and Culture* (2019). She has curated major exhibitions like *Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond* (2017) and *Five Centuries of Melancholia* (2014), both at the UQ Art Museum. Public engagement includes annual art history courses at QAGOMA and international lectures in Australia, Canada, and Europe. Education: PhD in Art History (not explicitly detailed, but extensive international fellowships at institutions like the Warburg Institute and the Huntington Library) Teaching: Supervised over 20 Honours, MPhil, and PhD students; developed an undergraduate Venice study abroad program Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Digital Futures Lab and multiple art institutions Her research grants include funding from AIAH/AAANZ for her upcoming monograph *Living Pictures: The Renaissance Artist-Scientist*, exploring Dürer and Leonardo’s natural studies. Awards include the AAANZ Best Book Prize (2014).

• Human Geography
• Migration Studies
• Transnationalism
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Prof. Brenda S.A. Yeoh is the Raffles Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS), leading the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute. She holds adjunct roles at institutions like the London School of Economics and serves on international bodies such as the International Geographical Union and the United Nations University Council. Her research focuses on migration, transnationalism, and gender in postcolonial contexts, with notable contributions to care migration, skilled mobility, and citizenship issues. Recognized with awards like the Vautrin Lud Prize (2021) and Public Service Medal (2022), she sits on numerous national and global committees, including Singapore's National Heritage Board and the World Cities Summit Urban Resilience Knowledge Council. Her academic leadership includes editorial roles for journals like Asian Population Studies and Population, Space and Place , and she mentors through critical cultural geography initiatives within NUS. Teaching interests span migration geographies, gender studies, and Singapore’s urban history.