Rosalyn is an award-winning Indigenous writer and ethnobotanist with a BA in physics and Ph.D. in environmental history. She studies the intersection of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) learned from elders and the academic study of environmental history and religion.
Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana and Métis.
Rachel studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. Since 1981, she has taught in the English Department of the Newark (NJ) campus of Rutgers University. She is the author of many books of poetry, prose, and translations. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant in poetry, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. A memoir about her husband’s illness, Strange Relation, was published by Paul Dry Books in 2011. Her previous book of poems, The Golden Road, was published by Northwestern University Press in the fall of 2012.
Lorraine is associate professor of philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her latest book is Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well (2014).
Frank is the Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College and an elected Fellow of several professional organizations, including the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He is an evolutionary social psychologist whose research is guided by the simple desire to make sense of everyday life, and he is currently studying gossip, aggression, and creepiness.
Stephen is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of 10 books, including The Evolution of Imagination (2017) and his latest, Why We Need Religion (2018).
Susan is a member of the English, Literacies, and Languages Education (ELLE) team in the School of Education at UNE. Within this group, she specializes in English language and literacy education, and educational linguistics. She is a member of the Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies Education (CREME). Susan also has expertise in the field of Montessori education.
David, an associate professor of law (J.D., M.A., U.C. Berkeley; B.A., BYU) joined the UI College of Law in 2015. Before beginning his academic career in 2007, he worked for the United Nations, overseeing Court Management and Legal Aid at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and directing Rule of Law activity in South Sudan for the U.N. Mission there. He has also led USAID-funded court reform projects in Romania and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, returning to Sarajevo in 2010-11 as a Fulbright Scholar.
He has written on the subject of forfeiture reform, as well as on issues of child protection. He is an advocate for legal protection of parents’ rights, particularly against a state actor’s second-guessing of parenting choices, and has been cited and quoted by state appeals and supreme courts, overturning convictions in these cases.
Simon joined the University of Nevada sociology department in 1992 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.A. from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from the University of Haifa (Israel). Combining critical symbolic interaction theory and qualitative research methods, his interests revolve around understanding the society-psyche link in phenomena as varied as youth cultures, the mass media, mental disorders, terrorism, and interactions in virtual, urban, and natural spaces.
