Magdalena Avila is an Associate Professor in Health Education, in the Department of Health, Exercise and Sports Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr Avila received her academic training and degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She works with communities of color in developing sustainable strategies for effective and long-term public health interventions. Dr Avila’s expertise is in Community Health and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). She also brings extensive expertise in environmental social justice research; she was an active research partner in the South Valley Partners for Environmental Justice, a collaborative research grant funded by NIEHS for 10 years to study environmental health problems impacting a predominantly Latino community. She is a recognized expert working with Health Equity Impact Assessments (HEIAs) and urban/rural communities in New Mexico. Dr Avila works directly with communities to partner in ways to increase the understanding of HEIAs\HIAs.
Katarzyna Balug is the co-founder of Department of Play, and a first-year PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Inspired by science-fictional worlds and informed by urbanism studies, her practice flows from research, design, and curation, to performance, installation, and sculpture. Her work examines the place of imagination in contemporary urbanism.
Lorenda Belone (Diné/Navajo) is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Education with a secondary appointment to the UNM Center for Participatory Research. She has been actively engaged over the past 15 years in CBPR research that has involved southwest Native American communities. Currently she is PI of the NIDA funded Family Listening Program: A Multi-Tribal Implementation and Evaluation (1R01DA037174-02). As a disparities researcher she has been able to integrate her own cultural and tribal knowledge to overcome historical negative research experiences and community members’ perceptions of research exploitation; and she has played a role in assuring that research activities match tribal partner expectations and resources. Dr Belone is a Senior Fellow with the UNM Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center and the New Mexico Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement, & Science on Health Disparities.
Jennifer E. Cross is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of Research for the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University. She received her PhD from the University of California at Davis. Her areas of expertise include community development, place attachment, inter-organizational social networks, social norms, conservation behaviors, and research methods. In addition to teaching research methods, Dr Cross teaches two applied sociology courses in which she engages 20–40 undergraduates in Community-Based Participatory Research in partnership with local non-profit agencies.
Bonnie Duran is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, University of Washington and is also Director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (www.iwri.org). With her team at IWRI and her partners at Tribal colleges, she has NIH grants to (a) conduct a psychiatric epidemiology study, and (b) adapt an evidence-based alcohol harm reduction intervention for Tribal Colleges. Dr Duran is also Co-PI of an NIMH funded HIV and mental health research training program. The overall aims of her research are to work with communities to design public health treatment and prevention efforts that are empowering, culture-centered, assessable, and sustainable and that have maximum public health impact. She has over 60 publications including articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and books.
Cynthia Ganote is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research focuses on feminist epistemologies, feminist methods (including grounded theory and feminist in-depth interviews), critical and feminist pedagogies, and on approaches to community-based research. She also studies the multiple ways in which low-income community residents strategically use their social capital in order to transform life in local communities.
Matthew Hickey is a Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar with faculty appointments in Health and Exercise Science (primary), Food Science and Human Nutrition (joint) and Biomedical Sciences (joint). His academic training is in the life sciences, having completed his PhD in Human Bioenergetics at Ball State University in 1993, and post-doctoral training in biochemistry and exercise science at East Carolina University from 1993–1997. He joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1997, and has served on the IRB for nearly 15 years, including the past 10 years as IRB chair.
Thomas Klikauer is a senior lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, working in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. He is the author of Managerialism: Critique of an Ideology (2013, Palgrave Macmillan).
Ishay Landa is Senior Lecturer in History at the Israeli Open University. He has published on Nietzscheanism, Marxism, political theory, and popular culture. His recent publications include The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism (2009, Brill) and The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture (2007, Lexington), as well as articles published in International Critical Thought, Nature, Society and Thought, Historical Materialism, and New Left Review.
Junpeng Li is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His research interests include contentious politics and comparative-historical analysis. He was a co-winner of the Sixth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists from the International Sociological Association. He has published in Politics and Religion, Contemporary Politics, and the Chinese Journal of Sociology.
Patrizia Longo is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research and teaching focus on political theory, gender, and race politics. She is the author of several articles in scholarly journals and of a book on Rousseau. Her present work looks at the democratization and de-commodification of food and food sovereignty.
Neda Maghbouleh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, is under contract with Stanford University Press.
Peter Mayo is Professor at the University of Malta where he teaches in sociology of education, adult education, comparative/international education, and sociology in general. He is also member of the Collegio Docenti for the research doctoral programme in educational sciences and continuing education at the University of Verona, Italy. His many books include Politics of Indignation (Zero Books, 2012), Echoes from Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2013), Lorenzo Milani, the School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice (co-authored, Peter Lang) and Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci (Routledge, 2015). He is co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Directions in Education and co-editor of the book series Postcolonial Studies in Education (Palgrave Macmillan). He edits the series International Issues in Adult Education for Sense Publishers.
Yiorgos Moraitis is an independent scholar on the history of social and political philosophy. Among his scientific interests are Marxism, Critical Theory, and modern democratic theories. In his recently defended doctoral dissertation, he examines the materialistic presuppositions and dialectical conclusions of Hobbes’ and Rousseau’s theories on sovereignty.
Michael Muhammad is a Paul B. Cornely Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the University of Michigan. Michael’s doctoral training was supported through a Robert Wood Johnson Doctoral Fellowship with the Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, he holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Florida A & M University, a Master of Arts in sociology from Cleveland State University, and a Doctorate in sociology from the University of New Mexico. His research interests include CBPR, social justice, health inequalities, eugenic ideology, poverty, and structural racism.
Kathleen Pickering is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Colorado State University. Dr Pickering, who joined CSU in 1997, is a professor of anthropology and was chair of the Department of Anthropology prior to being named a vice provost. As a cultural anthropologist, Dr Pickering’s research focuses on indigenous community and economic development and community-based participatory research methods. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her law degree at New York University of Law, after her bachelor’s at the College of William and Mary.
Kyla Sankey is a doctoral candidate in the International Development Studies faculty of Saint Mary’s University, Canada and the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. Her research has focused on mining and natural resource extraction, rural social movements, and rural development in Colombia and Latin America. Her dissertation explores the dynamics of the agrarian transformations and new peasant movements in Colombia.
Naida Simon, PhD, is an Extension Program Coordinator III at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She coordinates, and conducts research for, special programs for the Office of the Provost. Her primary responsibility is the Early Academic Assessment system, one of the university’s retention programs. She has presented at various national and regional conferences, including the American College Personnel Association, Michigan College Personnel Association, North Central Reading Association, Michigan Developmental Education Consortium, Michigan Association of Institutional Research, Michigan State University Retention Conference, and Oakland University Retention Conference.
Monica Solinas-Saunders is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Northwest. Monica’s research interests are in issues of interpersonal violence, offender incarceration, reentry, and rehabilitation. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, Victims and Offenders, and the Journal of Crime and Justice.
Melissa Jo Stacer is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, USA. Her research interests include the social environment of prisons, including the impact of visitation, mental health, and misconduct, as well as reentry initiatives including drug courts, faith-based programs, and ban the box policies. Dr Stacer has published in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, Victims and Offenders, Deviant Behavior, and the Journal of Crime and Justice.
Andrew L. Sussman, PhD, MCRP, is a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He is Co-Director of RIOS Net, a primary care practice-based research network that conducts participatory health services research. Dr Sussman has led qualitative and mixed methods projects on a range of topics aimed at promoting health equity including cancer prevention, substance use disorders, patient-provider decision making and diabetes prevention.
Maria Vidart-Delgado is the co-founder of Department of Play (www.deptofplay.com), and a research affiliate with the Anthropology program at MIT. Maria’s public anthropology practice explores late-liberal forms of public participation in a variety of sites from Colombian elections to American cities.
Nina Wallerstein is Professor, Public Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico; and Director of the Center for Participatory Research. She has been a CBPR intervention and empowerment researcher for over 25 years in partnership with New Mexico tribes and rural communities for youth and family wellness; and led the case study inquiry within the mixed methods national CBPR cross-site “Research in Improved Health” study.
Mark P. Worrell teaches theory and political economy at SUNY Cortland and has published widely in the world of critical sociology. His most recent book is Terror, published by Routledge in 2013.
Andrew Zimmerman is Professor of History at the George Washington University. He is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton University Press, 2010). He is also the editor of Marx, Engels, and the Civil War in the United States, forthcoming from International Publishers. He is currently writing a history of the American Civil War as a transnational revolution against slave labor and wage labor.
