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Jessica Mayhew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Central Washington University. She specializes in primate behavior, biological anthropology, and cognitive ethology, with a focus on social play, dominance hierarchies, and communication patterns in primates such as chimpanzees, macaques, lemurs, and gorillas. Her research integrates field studies, captive observations, and interdisciplinary approaches to understand primate social dynamics and conservation challenges. Her work extends to historical analysis, such as interpreting Bronze Age wall paintings depicting primates, and modern contexts like examining the impact of human caregivers on captive primates and the portrayal of nonhuman primates in digital media. She has conducted studies in diverse locations including China, Madagascar, and sanctuaries in the United States. Mayhew’s publications span topics like lateralization in lemurs, dominance behavior in Tibetan macaques, and paternal care in orangutans. She teaches courses on biological anthropology, primate origins, nonverbal communication, and primatology, reflecting her expertise in both academic instruction and applied research. Her advising and grants focus on primate behavior studies, with notable projects including camera trap deployments in China and collaborative work at sanctuaries. No specific labs or teams are listed, though her collaborative nature is evident through joint publications with institutions like Duke Lemur Center and international field collaborations.

• Biological Anthropology
• Primatology
• Primate Behavior
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Prof. Tiziana Lippiello is a Full Professor and Rector at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, leading the Department of Asian and North African Studies. Her academic career focuses on Chinese literature, ancient civilizations, and Confucian thought. She oversees the university's strategic direction as Rector while maintaining active research in East Asian history, religious practices, and intercultural dialogue. Her work bridges classical Chinese texts with modern interpretations, emphasizing themes like divination, governance, and Jesuit influence in cross-cultural exchanges. Key publications include studies on Prospero Intorcetta’s Latin translations of Confucian texts and analyses of ancient longevity practices. She has edited volumes on Chinese literature and merchant culture, contributing significantly to scholarly discourse on Sinology and early modern history.

• Chinese Literature
• Ancient Civilizations
• Confucian Thought
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Dr. Elaine Richardson is a Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on African Diasporic literacies, discourse studies, and gender studies. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. B.A. and M.A., Cleveland State University Ph.D., Michigan State University Her research explores language, literacy, and discourse practices in Afro-diasporic communities, with emphases on sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. She co-edited key texts like Understanding African American Rhetoric and Hiphop Literacies , and her outreach includes youth empowerment projects. Notable awards include the Cleveland State University Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) and Fulbright Scholar Award (2004). Her work bridges academia and community through projects like cultural literacy initiatives and hip hop education networks.

• African Diaspora Literacies
• Discourse Studies
• Gender and Literacy Studies
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Dr. Darren O'Byrne is a historian of modern Germany at the Department of German and Dutch , affiliated with Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge . His academic journey includes a PhD in History from Cambridge and prior degrees in History and Politics (BA) and International Relations (MA) from University College Dublin. Research focuses on German politics, administration, and bureaucracy from 1871 to the present Specializes in civil service under Weimar and Nazi regimes Co-edited Handbook Ideologies in National Socialism (2024) and a critical edition of sports journalist Willy Meisl’s writings Recent projects include a monograph on senior Nazi civil servants ( Hitler's Mandarins , forthcoming) and a biography of Willy Meisl. His publications span journal articles, book chapters, and interviews on topics like Nazi ideology, interwar sports journalism, and contemporary debates about memory. He is a Fellow at Wolfson College and teaches Modern German History.

• Modern German History
• Nazi Germany
• Weimar Republic
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Dr. Daniel Matlin is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the History of the United States since 1865 at King's College London, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of History. He joined King's in 2012 after previous academic positions at Queen Mary University of London (as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) and Cambridge University, where he served as Director of Studies at the Centre for History and Economics. His research examines the intersection of race, intellectual life, and urban space in 20th-century America, with specializations in: African-American intellectual/cultural history Civil rights and Black Power movements Historical constructions of race and Black diasporic identity Urban history (particularly Harlem and New York City) Jazz history and cultural expression Publication analysis reveals consistent focus on Harlem as both physical space and cultural symbol, with interdisciplinary approaches bridging history, visual culture, musicology, and urban studies. His works critically analyze racial representation, community formation, and the politics of space. Awards & Honors: Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize for On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship He actively supervises PhD students in African-American history, civil rights, black nationalist thought, and 20th-century cultural history. Grant-funded projects include 'Race Capital? Harlem as Place and Symbol since 1900.' Matlin engages extensively with public history through lectures at institutions like the National Theatre and Black Cultural Archives.

• African-American History
• Intellectual History
• History of Race
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Professor Juliet Foster is Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London. Previously, she served as Deputy Dean of Education at the Psychology Department since 2018 and held academic roles at the University of Cambridge as Senior Tutor and Senior Lecturer. King's College London (2018–present) University of Cambridge (prior to 2018) Her research focuses on public understandings of mental health, student wellbeing, and sociocultural psychology. She employs qualitative and mixed-methods approaches, contributing to the development of the 'whole university' mental health strategy. Juliet collaborates with Student Minds, the UK student mental health charity, and serves as an Assessor for the University Mental Health Charter. Key projects include evaluating peer support systems, studying loneliness in students, and analyzing media representations of mental health and homelessness. Her work aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education. Scientific Awards: British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Award for the Most Outstanding PhD She co-chairs King's College London's Steering Committee on Student Mental Health and Wellbeing and has served on the British Psychological Society's Education and Training Board. Her research has been funded by ESRC, AHRC, and NIHR.

• Mental Health
• Social Psychology
• Student Wellbeing
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Toshiaki Adachi serves as Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering, with research centered on differential geometry and dynamical systems on complex manifolds. His work bridges theoretical mathematics with geometric structures relevant to computer science applications. Education: Doctor of Science, Nagoya University (1987) Master of Science, Nagoya University (1981) Research Focus: Adachi specializes in trajectories, magnetic flows, and circular motions within complex geometries including projective and hyperbolic spaces. His investigations span characteristic magnetic focal values on Kaehler manifolds, extrinsic circular trajectories on real hypersurfaces, and structural properties of Kaehler graphs. This research reveals fundamental connections between geometric configurations and dynamical behaviors in high-dimensional spaces. Publication Trends: Recent works (2022-2024) demonstrate consistent advancement in geometric trajectory analysis, with emphasis on type (A) real hypersurfaces in complex space forms. His publications increasingly integrate tensor/Cartesian product structures in graph theory with classical differential geometry, showing evolving methodological sophistication while maintaining core focus on magnetic flow dynamics. Awards: No specific scientific awards are documented in the provided materials. Professional Activities: Adachi actively contributes to academic discourse through international conference presentations across Europe and Asia, and serves in leadership capacity within the Mathematical Society of Japan. His editorial work on World Scientific publications since 2011 has significantly shaped contemporary differential geometry literature. Research Infrastructure: While no dedicated laboratory is specified, Adachi leads the Center for Research and Development in Higher Engineering-Education, directing institutional initiatives in engineering pedagogy and curriculum development.

• Differential Geometry
• Complex Geometry
• Magnetic Flows
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Sheena Malhotra is a Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where she serves as Director of Queer Studies and Academic Director of the MA in Humanities Program. She holds concurrent appointments within the College of Humanities and Gender and Women's Studies Department, with extensive administrative experience including former roles as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities (2017-2019) and Chair of Gender and Women's Studies (2009-2013). Her academic trajectory bridges Indian film/television production and critical academia. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Communication Studies (1999) from the University of New Mexico, an M.A. (1993) from Pepperdine University, and a B.A. (1991) from DePauw University. Research interests span Media and Gender , Postcolonial Analysis of Indian Media , Queer Diasporic Audiences , and Racialized Implications of Silence , with methodological roots in intercultural communication and feminist theory. Her publication portfolio reveals consistent thematic evolution toward intersectional analyses of globalization, media, and identity. Early work focused on Indian television commercialization and Bollywood's cultural politics, while recent scholarship examines neoliberal impacts on youth imaginaries and queer coalition-building. Key methodological threads include postcolonial critique, discourse analysis, and embodied feminist approaches across 15+ peer-reviewed articles and two major books. Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound (2013, Palgrave MacMillan) - Co-edited anthology exploring silence as political strategy Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers (2013, University of Minnesota Press) - Co-authored ethnographic study of call center labor National Television Award nominations (India, 1995) during executive television production career Her advisory work includes five years on SATRANG's board (serving South Asian LGBTQIA+ communities in SoCal) and founding directorship of CSUN's Queer Studies Program. Current teaching includes GWS 351 (Gen Race Clas Sex) with hybrid/online course design expertise. Documentary film production remains integral to her scholarly practice through projects like The Shape of Water (2006) examining global feminist organizations.

• Gender Studies
• Media Studies
• Feminist Theory
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Dr. Razak Khan is a Research Fellow in the History Research Group at CeMIS (Center for Modern Indian Studies). His academic journey includes a DPhil from Freie Universität Berlin (2014) and postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg. Research Focus: Early modern/colonial India, South Asian Islam, Urdu public cultures, history of emotions, Indo-German comparative histories, and global intellectual history. Key Projects: His Habilitation project explores 'Minor Cosmopolitanism' through Syed Abid Husain's writings, while his book Minority Pasts (OUP, 2022) examines locality and belonging in Rampur. Publications: 15 recent works span transnational Indo-German intellectual histories, emotional geographies, Urdu archives, and Indo-Islamic cultural studies. Collaborations: Co-edited The Incomparable Festival (Penguin, 2021) and contributed to interdisciplinary volumes on emotions and migration.

• Early Modern Indian History
• Modern Indian History
• South Asian Islam
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Burak Sunguralp Tekin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpretation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. His academic career includes positions as both Lecturer (2021-2022) and Assistant Professor (2022-present) at the same institution. Dr. Tekin's research primarily focuses on human sociality and the interplay of language, bodies, and technology, with particular emphasis on embodied interaction, social practices, and multimodal communication. Dr. Tekin's educational background includes: Doctorate (2014-2019) from University of Basel, Switzerland, with dissertation "Bodies at play: Exploring participation, spectatorship, and morality in videogaming activities" Postgraduate studies (2012-2013) from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, with thesis "Smiles and affective alignment in naturally occurring dyadic academic supervisions" Undergraduate degree (2006-2010) from Hacettepe University, Turkey Dr. Tekin's research interests center on social interaction, multimodal communication, and embodied practices. His work examines how people coordinate their actions, bodies, and language in various contexts including gaming, photography, public spaces, and pandemic-related social adaptations. He employs conversation analysis and multimodal interaction analysis to investigate the micro-details of human sociality, with particular attention to how technology mediates social practices. His research bridges sociology, linguistics, and human-computer interaction to understand the embodied nature of social organization. Analysis of Dr. Tekin's recent publications reveals a consistent focus on embodied social interaction across diverse contexts. His work demonstrates sophisticated methodological approaches to studying how people coordinate their movements, manage social spaces, and create meaning through multimodal resources. A notable trend is his examination of how social practices adapt during extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his sustained interest in gaming activities and their social organization. His collaborative work with Lorenza Mondada is particularly prominent in the field of conversation analysis. Dr. Tekin has taught various courses including Multimodal Communication, Introduction to Applied Linguistics, Language and Communication, Language Acquisition, Consecutive Interpreting, Intercultural Communication, World Englishes, Applied Linguistics, Turkish Grammar, Language Culture and Society, and Discourse Analysis at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His teaching reflects his research expertise in communication, language, and social interaction.

• Social Interaction
• Multimodal Communication
• Conversation Analysis
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Kathleen M. Carley is a full professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science with courtesy appointments in Engineering and Public Policy, Heinz School, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. As director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) and the Center for Informed Democracy and Social-Cybersecurity (IDeaS) , she leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of network science, cognitive modeling, and cybersecurity. Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University SB degrees in Economics and Political Science from MIT Her research focuses on Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) and Social-Cybersecurity (SC) , developing tools like ORA (network analysis), AutoMap (semantic mining), Construct (influence simulation), and BotHunter (bot detection). She has over 400 publications and 15+ active research projects addressing disinformation, cognitive security, and organizational resilience. Recent work examines LLM-powered bots , multi-platform misinformation dynamics , and public health analytics . As an IEEE Fellow, she contributes to standards in computational social science while teaching courses on network analysis and complex socio-technical systems.

• Network Science
• Social Cybersecurity
• Computational Social Science
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Florian Zemmin is a Professor at Freie Universität Berlin's Institute of Islamic Studies , serving as Co-Director of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS). His research focuses on Islamic reformism , Middle Eastern conceptual history , and Arabic sociologies of religion within broader debates about modernity and secularity . Current affiliations: Freie Universität Berlin (since 2020) Previous affiliations: Universität Bern (2010-2020), Universität Leipzig (2015-2021) His research interests examine how Islamic traditions intersect with modern secular concepts through: Historical conceptual analysis in Arabic and Ottoman contexts Comparative secularisms beyond Western frameworks Postcolonial critiques of Eurocentric theory Sociological approaches to Islamic knowledge production Current projects include: Das soziokulturelle Leben soziologischer Konzepte – creating a critical lexicon of 60 sociological terms in Arabic Global Secularity: A Sourcebook – co-editing a 7-volume series on secular formations across regions Arabic Sociologies of Religion – challenging Eurocentric sociology through Arabic theoretical work Key publications address: Conceptual transfers in Islamic modernism Secularism in Islamic intellectual history Arabic sociology of religion Ottoman conceptual transformations Islamic responses to global social theory

• Islamic Studies
• Religion and Society in Islamic and Arab Contexts
• Islamic Reformism
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Professor Caroline Rae at Cardiff University is a leading scholar in 20th-century French music , with a focus on composers like Debussy, Messiaen, Jolivet, and Boulez. She also specializes in the musical writings of Alejo Carpentier and Franco-Latin American cultural interactions . Her research combines archival studies, performance practice, and pianism. Education : DPhil (Oxford), MA (Oxon), Dipl. Mus (Hanover), ARCM Her research projects include monographs on André Jolivet and Debussy’s Préludes , supported by the British Academy and AHRC . Recent publications span books on Carpentier, Debussy, and Stravinsky’s reception in France. As Co-Director of CFMR , she has organized international symposia with institutions like the Institut Français and Paul Sacher Foundation . Scientific awards include the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2018), Cardiff University Research Fellowship (2018-2019), and a French Government Scholarship (1982-1983). She has served on juries for the BBC Young Musician Competition and Wales International Piano Competition . As a pianist , she studied under Dame Fanny Waterman , Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen , and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , and performs lecture-recitals linking her research. She has advised orchestras like the Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales on festival programming.

• 20th Century Musicology
• French Music
• Performance Practice
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Claire Mouflard is an Associate Professor of French at Hamilton College , specializing in contemporary French and francophone literature, culture, and film. Her teaching and research focus on immigrant identities, postcolonial theory, digital humanities, and intersectional feminism. Department: German, Russian, Italian, and Arabic Areas of Study Academic Rank: Associate Professor Email: cmouflar@hamilton.edu Research Interests include: Immigrant representation in French cinema and literature Digital humanities and new media Postcolonial feminisms Twentieth and twenty-first-century Francophone narratives Scientific Awards include the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Award (Hamilton College, 2021) and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (Union College, 2016). Selected Publications analyze intersectionality in French cinema, digital authority in Francophone texts, and postcolonial diasporic literature.

• French and Francophone Studies
• Postcolonial Theory
• Immigrant Identity Construction
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Ali-Reza Bhojani is an Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. He joined the department in 2021 as a Teaching Fellow before being appointed to his current role in 2024. He has held academic positions at institutions including Al-Mahdi Institute, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, and Markfield Institute for Education, where he served on the executive team (2012-2017) and co-directed the Centre for Intra-Muslim Studies (2019-2021). PhD in Islamic Legal Theory, Durham University (2013) MA in Research Methods (International Relations and Politics), Durham University (2009) Hawza Programme (Arabic & Islamic Studies), Al-Mahdi Institute (2008) MCOptom, College of Optometrists (2004) BSc (Hons) Optometry, Bradford University (2003) His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to Islamic legal theory, particularly the relationship between Sharia and ethics in both theoretical and applied contexts. Key areas include free speech ethics, artificial intelligence, human plurality, and Modern Twelver Shīʿī legal theory. He leads the MA in Islamic Studies program, convening the core module Approaches to the Study of Islam. Recent publications address AI ethics in Islamic thought, religious authority in the Shi'i diaspora, and Quranic interpretation in legal frameworks. His work engages with cross-cultural collaborations, including anthropologists and scholars from diverse religious traditions. Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2024) He supervises doctoral research on topics like legal school dynamics in the Mamluk period and spiritual practices in British Muslim communities. He previously supervised projects on Ḥadīth origins and legal reasoning in Taqi al-Din al-Subki's work. His research collaborations include The Living Sharia Project with Oxford University.

• Islamic Ethics
• Islamic Law (Sharia)
• Legal Theory
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