Dr. Jayaraj Sundaresan is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science . He teaches across urban studies, planning, and development domains while conducting research on vernacular governance, planning violations, and decolonial urbanism in India and London. PhD in Regional and Urban Planning Studies (LSE Geography) MSc in City Design and Social Science (LSE Cities) MArch in Urban Design and Planning (CEPT Ahmedabad) BArch in Architecture (CET Kerala University) His research focuses on urban politics, commoning practices, and planning illegalities through ethnographic methods. Key themes include: Decolonial urban theory Water governance and ecological transformations Corruption in land use planning Vernacular formations of power Participatory urbanism critiques Comparative global South urbanism Scientific contributions span 15+ years with notable work on Bangalore lake restoration dynamics, urban commons, and JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) digital governance. Awards include: UNESCO award for Arackal Palace conservation Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK He has advised Kerala's Chittur-Thathamangalam Municipality on participatory planning (2022-2023) and contributed to London's Tall Buildings evidence Framework (2013). Current work involves a monograph on Indian planning violations.
Andrew J. Eisenberg is an Associate Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and a Global Network Associate Professor at NYU New York. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University and has conducted extensive research on East African music, sound culture, and urban sociocultural dynamics. His work bridges humanistic and computational approaches, co-founding NYUAD’s Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) research group. He is affiliated with the departments of Music and Anthropology at NYU and administers the Arab Music Studies minor. Education: BMus (New York University), MA and PhD (Columbia University). Research Interests: Eisenberg specializes in the anthropology of music and sound, focusing on African popular music, Swahili coastal musical traditions, and the intersection of music with capitalism, space, and citizenship. His first monograph, Sound of Other Shores (2024), examines identity formations in Mombasa through musical poetics. Current projects include studies of Nairobi’s music industry and computational analysis of Swahili taarab. Key Contributions: Eisenberg established the Andrew Eisenberg Collection of East African Commercial Sound Recordings, digitizing over 500 historical recordings. He collaborates with institutions like the Dhow Countries Music Academy in Zanzibar to preserve cultural heritage. His research on digital media’s impact on African music sectors has been widely cited. Awards: Jaap Kunst Prize (2018), Richard Waterman Prize (2012), and fellowships from the Bayreuth Academy and NYUAD’s Research Enhancement Fund. His interdisciplinary work has been featured in Music in Africa , Music, Sound, and Space , and Journal of African Cultural Studies . Teaching: Eisenberg teaches courses on the anthropology of music, cultural appropriation, and audiovisual ethnography. He leads NYUAD’s Music Program and oversees capstone projects. Labs/Initiatives: MaSC research group develops hybrid methodologies for analyzing Gulf, East African, and South Indian musics. Recent projects include the Swahili Musical Imagination exploring transculturation via computational methods.
Svetlana Booth is an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Russian and Russian Year Abroad Co-ordinator at the University of St Andrews' School of Modern Languages. She holds an undergraduate degree from Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University (Russia), an MLitt in Russian Studies from the University of St Andrews (2005), and a degree in 'Russian as a Foreign Language and Teaching Methodology' from Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language. Her teaching focuses on Russian language instruction at all undergraduate levels, including oral, AV, translation, and written classes. She coordinates extracurricular activities such as the National Russian Essay Competition and organizes Russian film evenings to enhance cultural understanding. Notable projects include: «Моя Россия» (“My Russia”) – a student-led initiative documenting Study Abroad experiences through multimedia. «Когда словари не помогают» (“When Dictionaries do not help”) – an e-learning resource for Russian language learners. A short course on 'Scots tramping the roads to Russia,' exploring cultural and historical links between Scotland and Russia. Her research interests include children's bilingualism and innovative language teaching methodologies. She has successfully guided students to win major prizes in national competitions across all academic levels.
Dr. Sophie Chadelle is a faculty member at ENSAV, part of the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (UT2J), where she holds the position of PRAG (Professeur Agrégé) since 2023. She is affiliated with the Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) and teaches courses in Translation Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Film Analysis, and Feminist Film Studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary, combining Translation Studies, Gender Studies, and Film and Television Studies. She completed her doctorate in December 2023 with a thesis titled "For a Multimodal, Interdisciplinary and Feminist Approach of Audiovisual Translation: The Case of Female Identities and Sexualities in Sex and the City (HBO, 1998–2004)" , supervised by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud and David Roche. Her academic journey includes prior roles as an ATER (2021–2023), CDU (2018–2021), and secondary school teaching (2016–2018). Her research interests focus on the feminist implications of audiovisual translation, particularly how gender identities and female voices are transformed in the French dubbing and subtitling of American TV series. She explores themes such as taboo, irony, cosmopolitanism, and the body in media translation, using a multimodal and interdisciplinary methodology. Her work critically examines how translation can either reinforce or resist patriarchal norms and cultural marginalization. Her publications span journal articles, conference papers, and a forthcoming book co-authored with Laura Benoît on feminism in British and US television drama. Her recent articles analyze series like Sex and the City and Ugly Betty , investigating how feminist discourse is negotiated in translation. The trends in her publications reflect a consistent focus on gender, power, and representation in media, with a methodological emphasis on multimodality and interdisciplinary critique. She is actively involved in the academic community, co-directing the "Translating Minority Voices" seminar and organizing events such as study days on feminism in television series. She has served on scientific committees and peer-reviewed articles for journals like Miranda and Caliban . Her work extends beyond academia through dissemination activities, including training sessions for secondary school teachers on feminism in film and television. She has advised and collaborated with various researchers and institutions, contributing to collective volumes and interdisciplinary projects. Her leadership in organizing academic events and her editorial contributions highlight her role in fostering scholarly dialogue. She is associated with research teams such as PRISMES (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and LERMA (Aix-Marseille), underscoring her collaborative and networked research approach.
Alexis Housen is a Professor of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics at the LW Academic Unit Linguistics and Literary Studies within Vrije Universiteit Brussel . Their research focuses on second language acquisition, multilingualism, and psycholinguistics. Currently active in over 30 projects, including leadership roles in initiatives like the Eye-Catching project (2021-2024) and the International Francqui Professor program (2023-2025). Research Interests : Housen's work examines language acquisition processes, particularly in second language learning contexts. Key themes include lexis-grammar interfaces, salience effects in SLA, and the role of instruction in phonological acquisition. Their empirical studies integrate psycholinguistic methodologies with corpus-based analyses. Recent Contributions : Recent publications address salience's role in morphology acquisition, complexity metrics in L2 writing, and comparative proficiency analysis across oral/written modalities. Their work demonstrates interdisciplinary influence across linguistics, education, and cognitive science. Recognition : Awarded the European Second Language Association Fellowship (2000). Active in international collaborations, presenting at conferences like the European Second Language Association and Birkbeck College symposia. Grants & Leadership : Oversees €1.2M+ in active funding through projects like SRP-Groeifinanciering: Multilingual language control (2022-2027). Serves in leadership roles including Dean and Head of Research Groups.
Silvia Donzelli is a Researcher and doctoral student at the Chair of Practical Philosophy at the University of Regensburg. Her roles include serving as the Second Deputy Commissioner for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and Art at the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, History and Social Sciences. She holds a Magistra Artium (Philosophy and Art History) from Humboldt University Berlin, with studies at the University of Milan and Humboldt University Berlin. Her research focuses on responsibility ethics, legal philosophy, African and intercultural philosophy, environmental ethics, and Renaissance art history. She critiques colonial legacies in European thought and explores complicity in business practices and digital discourse. Teaching & Academic Contributions: Recent courses include "Language and Violence," "Racism," and "Human Rights" at the University of Regensburg. Publications span philosophy of responsibility, counter-speech strategies, and African environmental ethics. Active in conferences on complicity, democratic debate culture, and decolonizing philosophy. Research Interests: Ethics of complicity in business and digital contexts African critiques of European philosophical history Environmental ethics through an intercultural lens Renaissance portraiture and material culture Grants & Awards: None explicitly listed, but her work is supported through institutional affiliations. Labs/Teams: Engaged with the Chair of Practical Philosophy and interdisciplinary networks on complicity ethics and decolonial thought.
Bianca Basciano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies , Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she has held the Director's Delegate for Research role since 2023. Her work focuses on Chinese linguistics , particularly Mandarin morphology, syntax, and second language acquisition. Research Areas: Chinese compounding, reduplication, causative constructions, resultative compounds, and language teaching methodologies. Teaching: Offers BA/MA courses in Chinese language and linguistics at Ca' Foscari University. Editorial Roles: Member of the editorial boards for Sinica Venetiana and Lingue e Linguaggio . Research Projects: Principal investigator for the PRIN 2020 project on Italian learners' acquisition of Chinese resultative verbs, with extensive corpus-based analysis. Collaborates with Giorgio Arcodia and other international scholars. Key Themes: Event structure delimitation, Vendlerian verb classes, micro-parametric syntactic variation. Publications: Over 40 works including monographs with Oxford University Press and Bologna University Press. Her methodological approach combines theoretical linguistics with corpus analysis, contributing to the understanding of Chinese as both a linguistic system and a second language acquisition challenge. She has also organized international conferences like the 31st IACL Annual Meeting.
Rhonda S. Hackworth is an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Mississippi, where she serves as Head of Music Education and Graduate Program Coordinator. She holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and an M.M. in Vocal Performance. Current role: Associate Professor of Music Education Key responsibilities: Graduate Program Coordinator, thesis/dissertation director Previous institutions: Rutgers University, Syracuse University, University of Missouri-Kansas City Research Interests Dr. Hackworth specializes in vocal health for music educators and students, with a secondary focus on music perception. Her work examines vocal hygiene practices, the impact of teaching experience on vocal health, and musical tension in Debussy’s compositions. She has published extensively in journals like the Journal of Research in Music Education and International Journal of Music Education , and her research spans both empirical studies and literature reviews. Publications Trends Her scholarship bridges music education and vocal health, particularly addressing how pedagogical practices affect vocal wellness. Subfields include behavioral intervention strategies, multilingual text analysis in vocal works, and choral participation models. Professional Engagement Dr. Hackworth presents research at international and national conferences, with presentations in Greece, China, and Italy. She also performs as an alto soloist in concert, opera, and musical theater settings.
Jo-Anni Joncas is an Associate Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2025. She holds a doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy from Université Laval (2018) and has held academic roles including Assistant Professor at the same institution (2020-2025). Her research focuses on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice , particularly in Indigenous and Inclusive Education , Vocational Training , and Knowledge Mobilization for marginalized communities. Her recent publications analyze Indigenous participation in vocational education, equity in post-secondary contexts, and policy impacts on educational access. She has secured significant grants from FRQSC , CRSH , and international bodies for projects on Indigenous education, refugee resilience, and vocational equity. Notably, she co-led the M8wwa mamu team recognized for teaching excellence in 2021. Doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy (2018), Université Laval Master’s in Education (2013), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Bachelor’s in Sociology (2009), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Key grant-funded projects include Justice sociale et formation professionnelle (FRQSC, 2023-2026), Digital agripreneurship for refugees (CRDI & SSHRC, 2023-2025), and Indigenous university accessibility (SSHRC, 2023-2026). Her work bridges academic research with community-driven solutions, particularly for Indigenous and refugee populations. Prix de reconnaissance de la qualité de l’enseignement (2021) 1er prix d’excellence pour la thèse de doctorat (2018) Inscription au Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales (2018) Prix Charles Bujold (2016)
Brigitte Gagnon is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Sherbrooke, where she coordinates the Master's in Education Management research-action program. Her academic background includes a Professional Doctorate in Education (2020), a Graduate Diploma in Education Management (2013), a Master's in Preschool and Primary Education (2009), and additional certifications in cooperative learning and French language teaching. Her research examines: Individual/collective support systems for school leaders Well-being strategies for educational staff Pedagogical and organizational development in learning institutions Action research methodologies in education She leads multiple funded projects, including CRSH-supported studies on professional competence modeling and FRQSC collaborations on interprofessional school staffing. Her publications demonstrate strong focus on educational leadership development, well-being frameworks, and action research applications in Quebec's school systems. Recurring themes include mentorship models, organizational change, and professional competence in complex educational environments. She maintains active research partnerships with school service centers (notably Centre de services scolaire des Hautes-Rivières) and coordinates professional learning communities for educational leaders. Current projects involve developing resources for school administrator well-being and novice teacher support systems.
Anna Mukamal is an Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design in the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies, digital humanities, and mental health discourse, focusing on how literature and digital media can function as therapeutic spaces. She teaches courses in digital culture, feminist digital humanities, and critical making, with a commitment to inclusive pedagogy and social justice. Dr. Mukamal's educational background includes: Ph.D. in English and Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, Stanford University, 2022 B.A. in English and Spanish, Duke University, 2017 Her research centers on the intersection of literature, digital culture, and mental health, with particular attention to how therapeutic discourse appears in 20th and 21st century American literature. Dr. Mukamal examines how women and marginalized individuals use writing in therapeutic contexts to navigate issues of gender, sexuality, and race. She also investigates how reading literature can create therapeutic experiences for readers, helping them recognize and work through their own psychological complexities. Her work integrates feminist perspectives with computational text analysis to explore interpretive communities around feminist literature. Dr. Mukamal's publications reveal a consistent focus on therapeutic discourse in literature, feminist publishing practices, and computational approaches to literary analysis. Her work spans traditional literary criticism and digital humanities methodologies, often combining close and distant reading techniques to examine how literature functions as a space for psychological exploration and social critique. Recent publications address feminist editorial labor, therapeutic identification in reading, and computational analysis of short story form. Dr. Mukamal has received several prestigious awards: Alden Dissertation Prize for her Stanford PhD dissertation, "The Therapeutic Encounter" (2023) Apple Award for Professor of the Year in the Department of English at Coastal (2023) Inclusive Pedagogy Award for pre-tenure faculty (2023) Professional Enhancement Grant (2024-25) Sustainability Grant for "Book Arts and Embodied Experience" project (2024-25) Dr. Mukamal actively mentors students in the Digital Culture and Design program, guiding interdisciplinary projects that combine digital making with social justice concerns. Her current grant-funded project "Book Arts and Embodied Experience: Building Community and Empowering Social Change through Bookmaking" involves collaboration with Academic Engagement & Outreach Librarian Loren Mixon and Associate Professor of Art Meghan O'Connor. This project exemplifies her commitment to community engagement through interdisciplinary approaches to mental health and social change. While not explicitly mentioned as leading a formal lab, Dr. Mukamal collaborates extensively with the Stanford Literary Lab and has worked as Project Manager for the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Her current work integrates digital humanities methodologies with mental health discourse, creating spaces for students to explore therapeutic dimensions of digital creation and literary engagement.
Katy Backes Kozhimannil, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Division of Health Policy and Management in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health . She co-directs the Rural Health Research Center and Rural Health Program at the university, focusing on health policy that affects healthcare delivery during critical life stages like pregnancy and childbirth. She combines research with policy advocacy to advance rural health , maternal and child health , and racial equity . Education : PhD in Health Policy (Harvard, 2009), MPA in Policy and Administration (Princeton, 2003), BA in Spanish and International Relations (University of Minnesota, 1999) Expertise : Health care policy, maternal and child health, rural health, health care quality, policy evaluation Kozhimannil’s research examines how policies impact healthcare access, quality, and outcomes in rural communities, particularly during pregnancy and postpartum. Her work addresses structural racism , geographic disparities , and social determinants of health , with published articles in journals like Science , JAMA , and Health Affairs . She has informed legislative changes in nine states and federal policies to improve maternal health access and reduce inequities. Her teaching emphasizes practical skills for health policy analysis, including legislative communication, policy brief writing, and advocacy. Students have engaged directly with legislators, influencing policy debates and implementation. Kozhimannil’s scientific awards include: Heinz Award for Public Policy (2020) Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award (2016) Labelle Lectureship in Health Services Research (2015) Health Affairs Top 15 Most-Read Articles (2013) Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (2013) She collaborates with colleagues like Jessica Liddell and Stephanie Leonard on rural maternity care, Hailey Baker on Indigenous maternal health, and Jhumka Gupta on domestic violence research. Her work has been cited extensively and covered by major media outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post .
Ana Sokolova is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences and actively contributes to research in theoretical computer science. University: University of Salzburg Faculty: Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences Department: Computer Science Email: ana.sokolova@plus.ac.at Her research focuses on probabilistic systems , concurrency theory , convex algebras , and formal verification . This work bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications in distributed computing and programming semantics. Recent publications highlight advancements in trace semantics , determinization , probabilistic anonymity , and coalgebraic modeling . Key trends include the integration of Markov chains , nondeterministic systems , and algebraic structures for formal verification.
Professor Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel is a Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Miami 's College of Arts and Sciences , Department of Modern Languages and Literatures . She is an internationally recognized scholar in Colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies, with a focus on postcolonial theory, gender, sexuality, and migration. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (1996) M.A., University of California at Berkeley (1991) B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Summa cum Laude (1989) Her research interrogates colonial discourses, archipelagic methodologies, and decolonial frameworks across Caribbean and Latin American contexts. Recent projects include a book on comparative archipelagic studies from 1498-2010. She has co-edited anthologies on trans studies , critical Caribbean thought , and colonial Latin American archives . Scholarly awards include the Henry Rutgers Term Professorship in Hispanic and Latin@ Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies (2014-2015). Her teaching emphasizes comparative colonialities , queer Caribbean , and decolonial research methods . Decolonial Caribbean (2025) Queer Archipelagic (2024) Transatlantic Colonial Critique (2023)
Dr. Margreet Vogelzang is a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University and an affiliated researcher at Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Based at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and affiliated with Trinity College at Cambridge, she maintains a dual institutional presence that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of her work. Her research program combines neuroscientific, psychological, linguistic, and statistical methodologies to investigate language and cognitive processing across the lifespan. She specializes in multilingual syntactic and semantic processing, employing both written and spoken language paradigms with offline (comprehension, judgments) and online (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) measures. Her work examines how hearing loss, socio-linguistic variables, and developmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder influence language processing mechanisms. Analysis of her recent publication record reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) bilingualism effects on cognitive flexibility in autistic children, (2) neural and cognitive mechanisms of sentence processing in individuals with hearing loss, and (3) computational modeling of pronoun interpretation across diverse populations. These strands demonstrate her consistent focus on bridging theoretical linguistics with cognitive neuroscience to address practical questions about language processing variability. Dr. Vogelzang actively supervises several graduate students including Alexander Cairncross, Andromachi Tsoukala, and Chara Triantafyllidou, and serves as course contact for Li16: Psychology of language processing and learning at Cambridge. Her teaching portfolio includes psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and research methods, reflecting her methodological expertise across experimental and computational approaches.
