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Gergely Baics is an Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Barnard College, serving as Helman Endowed Faculty Chair of Urban Studies and Faculty Co-Director of the Barnard Empirical Reasoning Center. He holds a joint appointment between the History Department and Urban Studies Program, with collaborative ties to Columbia University's History Department and the Center for Spatial Research at GSAPP. His research focuses on spatial and urban history, digital public history, and 19th-century U.S. economic and social dynamics. Notable projects include the Envisioning Seneca Village 3D digital model and the Mapping Historical New York spatial atlas. Education: B.A. (2002) and M.A. (2003) from ELTE University and Central European University in Budapest; M.A. and Ph.D. (2009) in History from Northwestern University. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Max Weber Fellowship. Research interests emphasize urban food systems, spatial analysis of historical patterns, and digital methods. His book Feeding Gotham (2016) was recognized as one of the Financial Times' Best History Books. Current projects explore 19th-century urban peripheries and Indigenous urban systems in colonial Spanish America. Awards include Barnard's Gladys Brooks Teaching Award and a CaGIS Map Design Competition win. Courses taught include transnational urban history, New York City history, and spatial history methodologies. Collaborative efforts involve multidisciplinary teams across institutions, focusing on public-facing digital history projects.

• Urban History
• Spatial History
• Digital Public History
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Nana Osei Quarshie is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, affiliated with the Department of History, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale School of Medicine’s History of Medicine Section, and the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on the intersection of psychiatry, social stratification, and colonial/postcolonial histories in West Africa. Education: BA from University of Toronto (2011), MSc from LSE (2012), MA from Columbia University (2013), PhD from University of Michigan (2020) Research interests include global histories of psychiatry, African systems of thought, and decolonizing historical methodologies. His book project An African Pharmakon examines psychiatric care’s role in shaping social hierarchies and identities in West Africa. Publications span topics like mass expulsion policies, psychiatric nursing conspiracies, and confinement practices in colonial contexts. His work has been supported by prestigious fellowships including the Chateaubriand Fellowship and SSRC IDRF. Teaching: Courses on global psychiatric history, African intellectual traditions, and archival methodologies

• History of Medicine
• African Studies
• Global Psychiatry
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Dr. Vincent Hiribarren is a Reader in Modern History at the Department of History , King's College London , with expertise in African history, archival studies, and digital humanities. He has held visiting positions at UCLA and served as director of IFRA-Nigeria (University of Ibadan). Education : PhD in History (University of Leeds, 2012) Research Interests : African History, Archives, Cartography, Digital Humanities, Borno, Nigeria His research focuses on the history of Borno , colonial archiving , and historical cartography , often informed by fieldwork and interviews. He has published extensively on topics ranging from precolonial Nigerian kingdoms to postcolonial governance and colonial intelligence operations . Recent work includes the 2025 book La France au Cameroun (1945-1971) , analyzing colonial archival policies. His 15 most recent publications span African history, digital humanities, and the intersections of colonialism and cultural identity. Scientific Awards : Leverhulme Teaching Fellowship (2013) Grants and Public Engagement : He has received funding from the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for digitization projects in Madagascar and Benin. He co-edited the Africa4 blog for Libération and developed an online archive catalog for Madagascar.

• African History
• World History
• Digital Humanities
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Professor Toby Green is a Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London's Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham (2007) and degrees from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on African engagement with the Atlantic world, global inequality, and decolonizing academic paradigms. He has been PI on major grants from the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, and EU, and chairs the British Academy's Fontes Historiae Africanae Committee. Research Interests: African economic history, trans-Atlantic diasporas, precolonial state formations, postcolonial Angola, and the historical intersections of race, slavery, and capitalism. His work emphasizes collaborative research with scholars in the Global South, including Angola, Ghana, and The Gambia. Key Achievements: Awarded the British Academy Book Prize (2019) for A Fistful of Shells , Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017), and elected British Academy Fellow (2024). Authored seminal works on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pandemic responses, including The Covid Consensus (2023). Awards: Fellow of the British Academy (2024) Philip Leverhulme Prize for History (2017) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding (2019) Teaching & Public Engagement: Designs UK and West African school curricula, including OCR A Level History materials and an AHRC-funded textbook for the West African Senior School Certificate. Advises governments on pandemic policy and collaborates with institutions like the British Library and the Royal United Services Institute.

• African History
• Atlantic World Studies
• Economic History
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Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University . Their scholarship, curatorial work, and criticism adopt a queer, transcultural, and decolonial lens to analyze global contemporary art. Patel's recent work includes contributions to The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History and Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (2023), and a peer-reviewed article on their transgender studies-art history course. PhD in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester (2009) BA in History of Art, Yale University (1997) Patel's research explores queer and transnational art histories , decolonial curatorial practices , and trans-subjectivity in visual culture . Their 2017 book Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories introduced frameworks like 'affirmative criticality' and 'productive failure' to challenge traditional art historical methodologies. The forthcoming Multiple and One: Writing Global Queer Art Histories (supported by a Fulbright grant) expands these ideas through global case studies. Recent curatorial projects include the 'Forever Becoming' series (2023-4) at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, focusing on decolonization, materiality, and trans-subjectivity . Patel has co-edited publications such as the Okwui Enwezor Special Issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2021) and the anthology Storytellers of Art Histories (2022), which documents intergenerational narratives in art historical praxis. Awards and Grants : Fulbright Scholar (Poland) Headlands Center for the Arts Residency Loughborough University Institute of Advanced Studies Residency National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant British Arts Council Grant Cranbrook Academy of Art Critical Studies Fellowship Patel combines queer theory , decolonial critique , and transnational frameworks to interrogate art's role in identity politics and knowledge production. Their projects often bridge academia with public art initiatives, such as spearheading Miami Beach Urban Studios' designation as a 'Cultural Anchor' (2012) and organizing social justice programming.

• Queer Art History
• Transnational Art
• Decolonial Theory
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Ernesto Bassi Arevalo is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He holds affiliations with the Africana Studies and Research Center, Romance Studies, and Society for the Humanities departments. His research focuses on historical geography , particularly how geographic regions and cultural identities form through the circulation of goods, people, news, and ideas. Bassi explores these themes from a Latin American and Caribbean perspective, especially examining the Caribbean coast of Colombia. His work spans comparative and transnational history , empires and colonialism , and historical geography . Bassi's publications reveal consistent engagement with Caribbean and Atlantic world history, examining how sailors created trans-imperial spaces and how various groups experienced these spaces. His work demonstrates a trajectory toward increasingly sophisticated analyses of geopolitical imagination and regional formation in the early modern period. Race and Ethnicity Comparative and Transnational History Empires and Colonialism Historical Geography As a Colombian scholar who came to the United States on a student visa, Bassi brings personal perspective to his teaching about international students' contributions to U.S. universities and society. He teaches students to understand the creation of patriotic narratives and identify the perspectives these narratives seek to erase.

• Historical Geography
• Latin American History
• Caribbean History
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Louis P. Nelson is Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with significant contributions to understanding American South, Caribbean, and West African architecture. His research focuses on spaces of enslavement across the Atlantic world, examining how architecture shaped the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved people. Nelson has directed the Falmouth Field School in Jamaica for over a decade, documenting Caribbean architecture, and currently leads efforts to understand the University of Virginia as a landscape of slavery. Nelson's scholarly work reveals trends in architectural history that connect material evidence with social and political contexts. His publications demonstrate expertise in vernacular architecture, sacred spaces, and the architectural manifestations of power and empire, particularly in colonial contexts. 2017 John Brickerhoff Jackson Prize 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize 2010 SESAH Best Book of the Year Prize 2008 SESAH Best Article of the Year 2015 Bishir Prize for Excellence in Vernacular Architecture University-wide Teaching Award (2007) Nelson has secured significant research funding including a $5M Andrew Mellon Foundation grant for 'Race, Place and Equity' and another Mellon grant for 'Recovering Erased Histories.' His fieldwork with over 100 students through the Falmouth Field School has produced systematic documentation of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Caribbean architecture. He has been instrumental in the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers project at UVA, co-editing related publications and developing educational resources. Nelson directs research initiatives including the Falmouth Project, a GIS-based data repository for Caribbean architectural history, and collaborates internationally with institutions like the House of the Slaves in Senegal. His work bridges academic research with public history through walking tours, films, and community engagement projects that interpret how racism is inscribed in the landscape.

• Architectural History
• Early Modern Atlantic World Architecture
• American South Architecture
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Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a faculty member since 2001 and serves as Faculty Advisor for Carnegie Mellon's African and African American Studies Minor. Her work bridges academic research with public engagement, bringing untold stories of enslaved Africans and their descendants to broader audiences through innovative interdisciplinary collaborations. Dr. Fields-Black earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her academic journey has focused on connecting historical research with contemporary social issues, particularly through the lens of African diasporic experiences and the legacy of slavery in the United States. Dr. Fields-Black specializes in the trans-national history of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers in pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast, and enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the antebellum South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. Her research employs interdisciplinary methods to recover the voices of historical actors who left few written records. She examines how enslaved Africans' technological expertise in rice cultivation shaped both the economies of the American South and cultural practices that persist in the Gullah Geechee communities. Her work challenges conventional narratives about pre-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora, revealing dynamic, diverse societies with specialized agricultural knowledge. Dr. Fields-Black's recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on uncovering previously marginalized perspectives in American history, particularly regarding slavery and the Civil War era. Her work increasingly integrates environmental history with social history, examining how enslaved people interacted with and transformed coastal landscapes. The 2024 publication 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War' represents the culmination of this trajectory, using Civil War pension files to reconstruct the experiences of freedom-seekers in their own words. Dr. Fields-Black has received numerous prestigious awards for her scholarship, including: 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award 2024 George C. Rogers Jr. Award 2024 Marsha M. Greenlee History Award Honorable Mention - 2025 James A. Rawley Prize Finalist - 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize Finalist - 2025 ASALH Book Prize Dr. Fields-Black has secured significant research funding from major foundations including Ford, Mellon, Woodrow Wilson, and Annenberg Foundations, as well as the Smithsonian Museum and Fulbright-Hays. She currently leads an interdisciplinary team of scientists studying 'Queen Rice': How Enslaved Labor Transformed Wetland Landscapes and America,' examining the 300-year impact of enslaved labor on coastal wetlands. Her work extends beyond traditional academic boundaries through collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and museum curators to bring historical narratives to wider audiences. Dr. Fields-Black leads the 'Requiem for Rice' project, an innovative collaboration with composer John Wineglass and filmmaker Julie Dash that transforms historical research into a symphonic work memorializing enslaved Africans on rice plantations. She also serves as principal investigator for a team of scientists studying the environmental impact of enslaved labor on coastal wetlands, integrating archaeology, conservation, digital humanities, and ecological studies. Her work with museums includes advising for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Senator John Heinz History Center, and the International African American Museum.

• Trans-national history of West African rice farmers
• Peasant farmers in pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast
• Enslaved laborers on rice plantations
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Allen E. Tullos is a Professor of History at Emory University and Co-Director of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. He holds joint appointments in American Studies (Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts) and affiliated roles in African American Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Department of History. His research focuses on critical spatial theory, digital scholarship, American popular music, and the U.S. South. Tullos earned his PhD in American Studies from Yale University (1985), with earlier degrees from the University of North Carolina and the University of Alabama. Key roles include co-founding the peer-reviewed journal Southern Spaces , producing award-winning documentaries (e.g., A Singing Stream ), and directing the Poets in Place multimedia series. His book Habits of Industry won the Charles S. Sydnor Prize. Tullos has secured major grants from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, and Emory’s Digital Scholarship initiatives. Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses in American Studies, Southern History, and digital media. He has advised over 30 PhD students, many now in academic or museum leadership roles. Tullos’s work bridges traditional scholarship with digital innovation, emphasizing regional narratives and public humanities. Grants include the NEH’s Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database enhancement and Emory’s Sickle Cell Information Center redesign. His service includes advisory roles for the American Routes radio program, Encyclopedia of Alabama, and Folkstreams documentary archive.

• Critical Spatial Theory
• Digital Scholarship
• American Popular Music
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Professor H.L. Aalbers (Rick) holds the Chair of Corporate Restructuring and Innovation at the Department of Business Administration, Radboud University. He has held visiting scholar positions at Imperial College London and Tokyo Institute of Technology, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies. MSc in Business Administration, Rotterdam School of Management MSc in Business Economics (cum laude), Erasmus University School of Economics PhD in Business and Economics, University of Groningen (best dissertation award) His research focuses on three key areas: Responsible Restructuring (examining ethical downsizing practices), Corporate Collaboration (innovation through intra-organizational networks), and Organizational Resilience (structural adaptations during transformation). He has secured over €1.5 million in EU/National grants including Horizon2020's FINDER program and NWO grants. Recent publications appear in Research Policy , European Management Journal , and MIT Sloan Management Review (where his 2011 paper won the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize). His work has been recognized with the ROA Professional Publication Prize (2014) and University of Groningen's Best Dissertation Award. Key Collaborations: Co-founder, Restructuring & Renewal Lab (trans-Atlantic research collaboration) Former editorial board member, Radboud University Press (2025) Supervisory board member, STMG (2025)

• Organizational Restructuring
• Innovation Management
• Corporate Collaboration
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Jacqueline D. Wernimont is the Distinguished Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College , where she holds an appointment as Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies. She is faculty affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Quantitative Social Sciences. Her work bridges digital humanities, data history, and multisensory data representation.

• Digital Humanities
• History of Data and Datification
• Technologies of Commemoration
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Ford Ramsey serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Based at Conner Hall in Athens, Georgia, his research program addresses critical challenges in agricultural economics through advanced quantitative methods, with particular focus on risk management systems and market dynamics in food production sectors. Research Focus: Dr. Ramsey's scholarly work spans multiple interconnected domains: Econometric modeling of agricultural risk and insurance mechanisms Labor market volatility in meat processing and food manufacturing Climate change impacts on crop yield stability and adaptation strategies Historical analysis of agricultural market integration and price formation Bayesian statistical applications in yield forecasting and policy evaluation Regulatory impacts on livestock and grain market efficiency His methodological approach frequently combines traditional econometric techniques with machine learning innovations to analyze complex agricultural systems. Publication Trends: Examination of his 2023-2025 publications reveals three dominant research streams: (1) Climate-agriculture interactions, particularly warming effects on wheat production and adaptation through genetic diversity; (2) Supply chain resilience, with emphasis on labor dynamics during disruptions in food manufacturing; and (3) Crop insurance innovation, focusing on Bayesian forecast combination methods and historical weather integration. These strands consistently demonstrate policy relevance through analysis of regulatory impacts, market integration, and risk management solutions for agricultural producers. Professional Activities: While specific advising relationships and grant details aren't documented in available sources, Dr. Ramsey maintains active engagement through the Agricultural & Applied Economics department's research initiatives. His work connects with broader university efforts in agricultural risk management and food system analysis, as evidenced by departmental affiliations and publication themes.

• Agricultural Economics
• Econometrics
• Crop Insurance
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Kwame Essien is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Lehigh University's College of Arts and Sciences, specializing in African Diaspora studies with emphasis on Ghana, Brazil, and Atlantic World connections. Education: Ph.D., History & African Diaspora, University of Texas-Austin, 2010 M.A., African Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 2006 B.A., History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2002 His research examines comparative slavery histories, reverse migrations, and cultural exchanges across the African Diaspora. Key projects investigate Brazilian returnees in Ghana (Tabom people), African American expatriates, herbal medicine histories, and homosexuality in Africa, blending archival analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to explore memory, identity, and colonial legacies. Essien's publications reveal consistent focus on Ghanaian returnee communities through journal articles and book chapters. His work analyzes trans-Atlantic memory practices, silences in diaspora histories, and cultural resilience among Brazilian-Africans and African Americans in Ghana, utilizing interdisciplinary methodologies to address identity formation and postcolonial dynamics. Scientific Awards: Lehigh University Alfred Noble Robinson Faculty Award (2017) Graduate Student Senate Certificate of Participation for mentoring (2018) Derrick K. Gondwe Fellowship at Gettysburg College (2009-2011) As a dedicated mentor, Essien chairs graduate committees for African, African American, and transnational history dissertations while securing significant funding including a $100,000 Accelerator Grant (2017) studying medical volunteer missions in Ghana. He led study abroad programs for 70+ students to Ghana and collaborated on NEH Challenge grants raising $1.2 million for Africana Studies. Essien pioneered virtual reality documentation of Ghana's slave forts and historical sites for classroom use, collaborating with LVAIC consortium faculty and Northampton Community College on interdisciplinary projects examining African history, diaspora studies, and experiential learning methodologies.

• African Diaspora
• Slavery
• Reverse Migrations
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Professor Martin Dichgans serves as the Founding Director of the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD) and Chair of the Department of Translational Stroke and Dementia Research at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich's Medical Center. He has held these positions since 2010 and has been a Professor of Neurology at LMU since 2006. Additionally, he serves as President of the European Stroke Organisation (since 2020) and President of the German Stroke Society (since 2016). Dr. Dichgans' research focuses on the molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms of stroke and cerebrovascular disease, with particular emphasis on cerebral small vessel disease and large artery atherosclerotic stroke. His laboratory employs genetic approaches to identify novel risk genes and explores their functional roles using genome-editing, proteomics, and imaging technology. His team has established genetic mouse models for cerebral small vessel disease derived from genetic discoveries (e.g., HtrA1, Col4A1, Foxf2) to identify key molecular pathways relevant to disease pathogenesis. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on genetic determinants of stroke and vascular disease, with increasing attention to inflammatory pathways in atherosclerosis and cerebrovascular disease. His work spans basic molecular mechanisms, translational research, and large-scale genetic studies across diverse populations. Recent publications demonstrate growing interest in the intersection of vascular disease and neurodegeneration, particularly in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Professor Dichgans leads a substantial research team including postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and technical staff, and has successfully secured numerous competitive grants including the Fondation Leducq Trans-Atlantic Network of Excellence on Brain Endothelium and the Horizon-EIC-2022-Pathfinder Challenges project. His laboratory is part of the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), reflecting its integration into a broader neuroscience research ecosystem.

• Stroke
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Neurogenetics
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Catherine Ceniza Choy is a Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading Asian American historian, her work intersects migration, gender, nursing, and trans-Pacific studies. She has served in multiple administrative roles, including former Department Chair (2012-2015, 2018-2019), Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Division (2019-2021), and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (2021-2023). Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles (1998) M.A., History, UCLA (1993) B.A., History, Pomona College (1991) Her research focuses on violence, erasure, and resistance in Asian migration and community formation, with notable work on Filipino nurses’ disproportionate impact during the pandemic. She has co-edited anthologies on gender and trans-Pacific dynamics and authored foundational texts on Asian American history and international adoption. Selected Honors & Awards include: Agnes Dillon Randolph Award (2023) UC Berkeley Spark Grant (2023-2024) Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award (2005) Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship (2015-2016) Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer (2017-2020) Choy’s public scholarship has been featured in The Atlantic , New York Times , CNN, and ProPublica. She leads interdisciplinary research teams and secured grants for critical archival projects, including collaborations with the Bancroft Library and ISS-USA.

• Asian American History
• Migration Studies
• Nursing History
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