Ali Almajnooni is a doctoral candidate in the department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University and is also affiliated with the department’s Translation, Research, and Instruction Program (TRIP). His research interests include critical theory, cultural studies, translation studies, modernity, and teaching Arabic to speakers of other languages. His dissertation looks into modern Arabic fiction, including works of al-Koni, Kanafani, and Munif, as “desert literature.” It defines those works in relation to the conceptual triad of modernity, the nation-state, and the novel, delineating how they challenge and depart from the most sustainable theorizations of the three nodes of the triad. Almajnooni is also a writer and translator. His Arabic translations of novels by Nella Larsen, Carson McCullers, and E. L. Doctorow were published in 2015, 2016, and 2018 respectively. He is a regular contributor to Thmanyah, where he writes essays on the contemporary culture of the Arabian Gulf region, including social media phenomena.

David Campbell is Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration at Binghamton University. His area of expertise is nonprofit organizations. His research publications address philanthropy (in Turkey and the Muslim world) and various aspects of nonprofit management, most recently, performance and social media. He teaches undergraduate courses in civic engagement and philanthropy, and graduate courses in performance analysis and the NGO sector globally. He serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations, including Racker and the Klee Foundation.

Madelynn Cullings is a doctoral student in the department of History at Binghamton University. Her dissertation explores the evolution of Esther imagery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian contexts. Her research interests include art of the Italian Renaissance, representations of gender, and religious tolerance in the period of the Counter-Reformation. She has worked for several years in the Department of Special Collections and has held positions in archival and museum institutions. She plans to engage methods of spatial and textual analysis to visualize patterns of mobility and circulation in the Early Modern world. She is looking forward to learning how to implement and utilize digital tools in the classroom.

I am a second-year PhD student in English. My research of interest includes feminist and race theories, Asian American literature and culture, the Asian diaspora, transnational American studies, and neoliberal and postcolonial studies. My current work focuses on contemporary Asian American feminist writing and cultural products, including digitally formatted ones.

Jacqueline Frazer received her BA and MA in sociology from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently a PhD student in Sociology at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses in Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies, the Writing Initiative, and the Equal Opportunity Program.

Daimys Ester García is a writer, artist, and educator from Miami and a PhD candidate in the comparative literature department at Binghamton University. Her essays have appeared in Convivial Thinking and The Mantle; her poetry has appeared in The Maynard. She is currently a proofreader and editor’s assistant for the academic journal Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas and the podcast host for the academic journal Chicana/Latina Studies’ radio show “MALCSRadio!”. Her research interests include latinx literatures with a focus on Cuban-American literary identity formation, women of color feminisms, Native studies, and decolonial theory.

Laura Johnsen is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department under the advisement of Dr. Joshua Reno. She earned her MA in Anthropology in 2014. Laura is currently studying constructions of sex and sexuality through the design and marketing of sex tech products for her doctoral dissertation. She is also the Digital Marketing Director of the virtual networking and discussion group, Sex Tech Connect.

Allen Loomis is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric at Binghamton University. Prior to matriculating into doctoral studies at Binghamton, he earned a Master of Arts in English at Loyola University Chicago (conferred 2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in English at Loyola University Chicago (conferred 2019). His current research interests brings theories of spatiality and materiality to bear on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and vice versa. He is particularly interested in depictions of the home space in early modern literature and how that space leaves clues about how people perceived and went about the act of “dwelling” in their time.

Jessica Minieri is a PhD student in the Department of History at Binghamton University. Her work focuses on women/gender, cultural history, and political culture in the medieval Mediterranean.

Lubna Omar is a Zooarchaeologist and Near Eastern Archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human and animal relations, including complex societies in Southwest Asia and the emergence of urban economies and subsistence resources in prehistoric and historical settlements. She is currently incorporating digital documentation of Syrian archaeological experiences to provide supporting evidence to an ongoing book project. The main goal of this project is to address the need to decolonize archaeology in southwest Asia as a way to envision the future of the field.

Newly graduated with a Bachelor's in Human Development and now pursuing a Master of Science in Human Rights at Binghamton University, Jabari is a lifelong student, organizer, and artist. They are committed to discursive thought around topics of power, oppression, and institutional vulnerability. As a queer nonbinary Black radical living in the United States, their studies are not only formed from studying historical movements not usually covered by mainstream society, but also by being in community with marginalized people from various walks of life. Their work aims to further Black liberation, queer liberation, gender autonomy, disability justice, abolition, food justice, fat liberation, landback, de-colonization and other anti-oppression movements. Using knowledge from this institute they hope to be able to more competently contribute to their master’s capstone of an accessible collaborative community-oriented multimedia digital zine exploring themes of vulnerability and more.

Ph.D. student in Sociology at Binghamton University, with the main research focus on the comparison of the Kurdish liberation movement in Turkey and Syria and indigenous movements in Mexico. She is particularly interested in forms of social organization that present alternatives to capitalism and the state. Anna explores the use of oral history, ethnography and ethnographic film as tools to examine and document experiences of building “a better world.” As an activist and researcher of resistance to state violence, she has published in openDemocracy, Jadaliyya, The Region and Lefteast and volunteered as an editor and translator for human rights organizations in Turkey. She is also part of a spatial humanities collective Groundhem Initiative that works on a project to visualize state violence perpetrated by Turkey against its Kurdish population.

My name is Mamen, I am from Caceres, Spain, and I am about to be a second-year PhD student at Binghamton. My research interests are focused on minority theory and migration literature, especially Romani literature, but I love to explore other areas of research. I hold a BA in English studies, and a MA on Hispanic literature, culture and linguistics, and I am currently getting my PhD in Comparative Literature.

Busra Sati is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her dissertation explores the relationship between food consumption patterns and working-class formation by examining workers' foods and foodways in the US between 1945-1980. She received the Public Humanities Fellowship by The Humanities Centers Initiative for the 2020-2021 academic year. During the fellowship, she has researched the ethnic diversity of the larger Binghamton area by investigating Binghamton's food history with a specific focus on migrant communities. She is preparing to launch a digital exhibit displaying photographs, menus, information about local restaurants and their owners, and recipes to document foods and foodways of different migrant communities in Binghamton. In 2021, she received the Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching. Her other research projects examine Turkish women's labor activism and teaching global migration.

Paul Schleuse is Associate Professor of Musicology and chair of the Music Department at Binghamton University, where he is also a faculty associate of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. His research on early-modern music engages issues of print culture, sociability, identity, and genre; he also studies opera and musical institutions in the twentieth century. His books include Singing Games: Imitation and Recreation in the Music Books of Orazio Vecchi (Indiana University Press, 2015) and the critical edition of Orazio Vecchi’s Selva di varia ricreatione (A-R Editions, 2012), as well as articles and reviews in The Journal of Musicology, The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Renaissance Quarterly, and several collections. Current projects include a critical edition of canzonettas by Adriano Banchieri, a study of music and social networks in early-modern Bologna, and an investigation of professional and amateur musical organizations in Jim Crow-era Houston.

My research is in political institutions and elite behavior, comparative without specific regional reference. Recently my interest in health politics combined with the research opportunities from observing elite responses to the COVID 19 pandemic has led me to construct databases and attempt global visualizations and dynamic visual comparisons. Furthermore, in a rare situation when we are literally discovering relationships between the political design of countries and how well they fare with respect to directly comparable metrics, such as pandemic policies and pandemic health outcomes, I feel the need to produce functional public facing products that scholars, teachers, and policy-makers can easily access and re-use. My skills with the digital tools are insufficient and I have been relying too much on the kindness of others, but would like to become more functional myself.

Mary Tuttle is currently working part time on her PhD with the History Department at Binghamton University, while working full time in the Libraries as the Collection Moves & Project Coordinator. Her research interests include Russian history and culture, Eastern European immigration and diaspora, and digital humanities and mapping tools in the context of historical study. Her current research focuses on the settlement and community development of Eastern European immigrants in Broome County, NY.

Coleen is a doctoral candidate in philosophy. Her dissertation research explores how liberal democratic theory's epistemic requirements for citizenship may be in tension with actual human abilities to learn and be persuaded. Especially given the psychological and cognitive limitations empirical research has revealed over the past five decades. She will begin serving as director of philosophy's Critical Thinking Lab in fall 2021, has served as chair of philosophy's graduate student conference committee and GSO president, and works as a facilitator for on-campus deliberative dialogue events.

Bridget Whearty is an Assistant Professor in English and Medieval Studies at Binghamton University. Her research and teaching interests include medieval literatures and cultures; text technologies and digitization; and information literacy. She has published research on late medieval death culture and Chaucer's legacy, medieval leprosy, and digital manuscripts. She is finishing her first book, Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor.

Peng Yin is a third year Ph.D. student from TRIP. His research project focuses on the agency of publishers and translators in canonizing modern Chinese fiction in the Anglophone world. He wants to apply a DH approach in analyzing the reviews on Chinese fiction from both professional and general readers.

Chenrui Zhao is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Binghamton University with a research focus on Neoliberal racialization as a global phenomenon and its resistant strategies offered by the critical AfroAsia coalitional tradition and the global south especially from the third world, queer, and women of color feminism. Her research delineates global Asias in the 21st century as not only an emerging neoliberal superpower that reconfigures relationalities among communities as well as nation-states but also a theoretical formation that offers alternative points from which the development of capitalistic extractivism could be contested.