Meg is a Lecturer at Babson College. 

Dissertation: "Narratives and Negotiations: Insights from the INC Process for Plastics Using the Narrative Policy Framework"

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Allyson is a Senior Researcher, Dialogue Facilitator and Trainer at the Global Coalition to Protect Eduction from Attack.

Dissertation: "Schools as Geopolitical Spaces: Violence Against Education During the Bosnian War (1992-1995)"

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Michael is the Assistant Professor of Global Health at DePauw University. 

Dissertation: "Towards a New Health Politics in Kenya: Labor Organizing and Strikes by Public Sector Health Workers"

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Jack Whitacre is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at UMass Boston. 

Dissertation: US Policy Thresholds: Translating the Ramsar Convention into Action

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Krystal-Gayle is a lecturer at Babson College where she teaches global gender politics and is a conflict resolution researcher/scholar bridging her expertise in Student Affairs with her passion for social and restorative justice practices.

Dissertation: Tan Ova Deh Suh: Queeribean Feminism, Human Security, and the Dynamics of Exclusion in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

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Meg is a Research Associate at UMass Boston focusing on Environmental Policy| Fisheries and Aquaculture Governance| Offshore Wind |Social and Economic Development| Equity and Social Inclusion.

Dissertation:  "Gender, Socioeconomic Marginalization, and Grassroot Organizing in Kenyan Fisheries"

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Kate is a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations affiliated with the Martin Institute and Idaho Society of Fellows at the University of Idaho. Her primary research areas pertain to International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sovereignty, International Organizations, De Facto States, Russian, Eurasian, and European Politics, the European Union, EU Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and Democratization. 

Dissertation: "Notions of Sovereignty: European Union Involvement in Independence-Seeking Regions"  

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Elly is Managing Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University, a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Dissertation: “Balancing Sino-American Hegemony in the Era of Critical and Emerging Technologies: Economic Statecraft as Grand Strategy and Its Implications on US National Security Anxieties from Chinese FDI and the Instrumentalization of the Firm"

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Linda works for the United States government.

Dissertation: “Conflicted resources: Revising the concept of ‘conflict’ Resources through the case of Central Africa”

Anatole works for First Nations Council (Conseil de la Nation Innu Matimekush & Lac-John) in Northern Canada.  His research explores the contribution of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), particularly Interfaith Mediation Organizations (IMOs), in undermining the ideological resonance of violent extremism in the Sahel region of West Africa. 

Dissertation: “Building Tolerance as a Strategy to Mitigate Violent Extremism: The Contribution of UFC to Social Cohesion in Dori” 

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Ellen is a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Women’s and Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research is on the nature and evolution of social, economic, and political actors in Africa and their interactions with global actors and processes. She works with sports organizations that invest in sports as an emerging economic sector in Africa. 

Dissertation: “Playing offside: An Intersectional Analysis of Sports in Kenya’s Informal Sector” in May 2024.  She explores the nature of African perspectives and contexts within the global sports system. 

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A lecturer at Babson College and a fellow with the African Leadership Center at the King’s College London, Dennis focuses on transitional justice, governance of security, leadership and development, global governance, and migration.

Dissertation: “Engaging Survivors in Transnational Justice Governance: Global, National, and Local Perspectives from Uganda’s Post LRA Insurgency” 

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Mahdi works in academia and is currently an International Relations instructor at UMass Boston.

Dissertation: “Governing Al: Creation of Norms and Delegation of Authority” 

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Paul focuses on the role of neoliberal, security, and local power relations in shaping how South Korean youth understand their security, identity, and agency.

Dissertation: "Neoliberal Youth Security Governance: South Korean Youth, Governmentality, Power Relations, and Shaping Youth (In) Security "

Denise is a researcher, educator, and nonprofit leader, advocating, and conducting research with immigrant and refugee communities. She focuses on immigrant and refugee experiences, narratives, and community-building, centering their agency and voices. She is a proud Latina and a first-generation student.

Dissertation: “Navigating Narratives: Immigrant and Refugee Lived Experiences, Counternarratives, and Social Connections in an Era of Securitization of Migration”

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A Policy and Operations Fellow with Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Rebecca's interests include compliance with international human rights law and agreements and the role of international organizations in advancing human rights protection and promotion efforts,

Dissertation: “Advancing Women’s Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of The United Nations Universal Periodic Review” 

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Nadia is a postdoctoral researcher working on the project “Gas flaring-induced Black Carbon in the Arctic: Climate Change Impacts and Regulatory Challenges,” a collaborative effort between the University of Helsinki and the University of Lapland. She is also affiliated with the Arctic Governance Group at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, conducting research on environmental governance in the Arctic.

Dissertation: “The Practice of Climate Adaptation Governance in Arctic Cities: Understanding Local Policymaking Interactions in Norway and Russia”

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Wondwossen is an advisor to the African Group of Negotiators and a negotiator on a range of environmental issues which includes the intergovernmental negotiation process on the Science-Policy Panel to support action on chemicals, waste, and pollution. 

His work focuses on the dynamics of science-policy-practice, the interplay among discourses, structures, power relations, and human agency within complex policy processes, and the various pathways through which knowledge is accessed or resisted.

Dissertation: “Complexity at the science-policy interface in Ethiopia’s policy spaces” 

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Negusu is a dialogue facilitator and founder & coordinator of the Destiny Ethiopia Initiative that has facilitated a groundbreaking scenario building process for Ethiopia and has led and conducted several high-level political dialogues aimed at promoting conflict transformation and durable peace in Ethiopia.

Dissertation: “What explains the behavior of Chinese companies in Africa: Exploring the nature of African agency in FOCAC platforms and on the ground” 

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Balkissa is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, she was a lecturer at the University of Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger.

Dissertation: “Governing Global and National Migration Nexuses: The Case of the Niger ‘Transit’ Region.”   

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Polly is a Fulbright, AILA and Boren fellow with an area of expertise in South East Asia and Europe. Her academic research focuses on women, peace, and security, critical military studies and feminist security studies with dabbling into South East Asian politics and AI ethics. Polly currently is a senior social scientist with Peraton providing program assessment and research methods review

Dissertation: “Security, Gender, and Power: NATO’s Advising Program in Afghanistan”

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Shelly is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University. Her research focuses on the key linkages between health, human development and human rights, especially women’s mental health during the perinatal period. 

Dissertation: “Reframing the Silent Burden of Perinatal Mental Health in South Africa: Applying a Global Health Governance and Human Rights Perspective”

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Safiya is a Senior Manager, Learning and Development in the corporate sector where she facilitates workshops in team dynamics, barriers to productivity, well-being, and psychological safety, sometimes with the use of behavioral assessment tools

Her academic work focused on the strategies women use to build peace, transform cultures of violence, and create gender justice for underserved groups. 

Dissertation: “Race, Gender, and Peace: How Women’s NGOs Build Peace and Enhance Gender Justice”

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JP is an Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College where he is affiliated with the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. He was previously a Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at Wellesley College and has taught in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona. 

Dissertation: “The Migration-Security Nexus in South-South Population Flows: Securitization of Haitian Migration in the Dominican Republic” 

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Chase is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University. She is an environmental governance scholar specializing in the Amazon region. Her research occurs at the intersection of political science, economics, sustainability, climate change, Latin American and environmental studies. 

Dissertation: “Damming Sustainability: How Social and Environmental Networks Influence the Construction and Management of Large Dams in the Amazon Basin”

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Burnett is a geospatial leader and published researcher at URSA Space Systems as a Solutions Architect. She has previously served on the U.S. Earth Observations Group's committee as a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Science for Development Fellow, advised on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI Infrastructure, and contributed research that was cited in the President’s 2023 Economic Plan.

Dissertation: "Evaluating Participatory Mapping for Public Decision-making using SeaSketch"

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Chantal is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Global and International Affairs, and Politics at Southern New Hampshire University. 

Dissertation: “Indian Women Construction Workers’ Social Construction of Human Security”

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Kundan is a Senior Program Officer for South Asia (in Delhi) at the International Development Research Center, working in the area of Democratic and Inclusive Governance.

Dissertation:  "Distress, Dilemma, Decisons: Household Aspirations and Migration Decisionmaking in Rural India"

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Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Employee Relations Director at the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC), Sudeshna is in charge of leading and designing the agency's organizational equity and employee engagement strategies. 

Dissertation: "Gendering Bare Life through Sex Work Governance in India: Rethinking Sexual Labor Precarity and Resistance from the Postcolony"

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Adriana is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta. Using decolonial feminism and critical approaches to law and peace her research explores the gender assumptions, roles, and identities of peace in the Colombian legal system. 

Dissertation: "The Gender of Peace: State Power and Discourse in Colombia (1946-1991)"

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Lyndsey is Director of Inclusive Pedagogy at Boston University School of Social Work and is passionate about human-centered programs and solutions, instructional design, empathic leadership, equity, and helping organizations realize their mission, vision and goals.

Dissertation"  "A Top-Down Approach to Bottom-Up Development: NGO Implementation of Early Childhood Development Programs in Rwanda"

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Eike is Academic Program Manager at IU International University of Applied Schisnces, Germany. 

Dissertation: "World Heritage Governance Assessing the Influence of Governance Factors on the Protection of Cultural and Natural World Heritage"

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Michael is Senior Director of Corporate and Foundations Relations with Care New England hospital system.

Dissertation: "Balancing the Environment and Development: Environmental Reform and Mainstreaming at the World Bank Ethiopia Country Office"

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Visiting Research Scholar at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Dissertation: "The Political Economy of Migration Governance: How Political Actors, Networks, Institutions, and Policies Impact the Migration-Development Nexus in the Global South"

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Timothy is a Lecturer, Centre for Peace and Security Research, UPSA; Research Fellow, Earth System Governance; Fellow, Headwaters Leadership Academy, Society for Freshwater Science 

Dissertation: “From Minamata To Mines in Ghana: A Cross-Scale Study on Global Governance of Mercury Use in  Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining”. 

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Charles is Director of Growth Initiatives with Genesys Works, a nonprofit social enterprise providing pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experience, and impactful relationships. 

Dissertation: "The Rise And Rise of The Criminal Record: Power, Order And Safety in The United States 1848-1960"

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Abi is Director of the Africa Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and a Security, Geopolitics, and Armed Groups Expert.

Dissertation: "The Governance of Transnational Security Threats in Fragile States: The Case of the African Union (AMISOM) 2007 – 2017"

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As the Senior Researcher for Peace and Governance within the Research and Learning Team at Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian and development NGO, Bharathi collaborates with colleagues on gender, peace, and governance research studies that highlight the work and impact of Mercy Corps' country and program teams worldwide in order to advance internal and external learning and evidence use.  

Dissertation: "Understanding Gender And Access to Health Care For Resettled Women In Post-war Northern Sri Lanka Through Intersectionality"

Aamer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, in Peshawar Pakistan

Dissertation: “The Effects of Issue-Area Governance Overlap on the Institutions of Multilateral Counterterrorism Cooperation"

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College, Vice President of Research and Grant Writing at The Green Institute (www.greeninstitute.ng), and Curriculum Advisor

Dissertation: "Seeking a Nexus between Transparency, Accountability and Sustainable Development in the Extractive Industries: Analysis of the Mali Extractive Industries."

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Deborah is an Outreach and Research Officer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies. St Augustine.

Dissertation: "Global Governance and the Post-Colonial Nation State: Women, Gender, and Public Opinion in Public Policymaking in Trinidad & Tobago 1956-2005"

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Theresa is the Senior Manager of Research on the Vaccine Acceptance and Demand Initiative at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, DC.

Dissertation; “'We Want to Be Free:' A Qualitative Examination of Migration as a Social Determinant of Health for Youth, Cross-Border Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa."

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Gabi is Associate Acquisitions Editor at The MIT Press.

Dissertation: “The Institutional Landscape of International Forest Protection: Understanding Institutional Complexity in International Forest Governance."

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Jamie is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Manchester where she is part of the Critical Global Politics research cluster.

Dissertation: “Queering Women, Peace and Security” 

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Yuliya is a Tenured Assistant Professor in the Political Science department and cross appointed with the School of Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island. 

Dissertation:  “Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development: The Evolution of Discourse,” 

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Modupe is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Wesleyan University.

Dissertation: "Exploring the impact of insurgencies on gender-based violence and the Nigerian armed forces: The Boko Haram Case"

Exploring the impact of insurgencies on gender-based violence and the Nigerian armed forces: The Boko Haram Case

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Jeremiah is an Assistant Professor of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University

Dissertation: "Transformations in conservation governance and implications for human security: the case of Kenya’s northern rangelands."

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Jin Young Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland. She has taught Sustainability management, International business, and Social entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels in the U.S. and South Korea.

Dissertation: "The Emergence of Private Governance in a Nonwestern Context: The case of South Korea in 2017"

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Jay is Senior Fellow, Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at UMass Boston and President and Founder of Educational Divide Reform (EDR) Institute. EDR is a nonprofit organization that promotes social inclusion through youth education and implemented programs such as “Step Up” and “Pathfinder” for the academic improvement and career preparation of low-income immigrant youth in the Boston area. 

Dissertation: "Human-Centric National Security in Strong States: South Korea’s Security Relations with North Korea."

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Natalia is a Policy Associate at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) after over a decade on the faculty Universidad EAFIT in Medellín (Colombia). 

Dissertation: "Environment, States and International Organizations: The Role of Global Environmental Conventions in Protecting the Environment."

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 Debidatta is a Professor of Political Science at Florida State College in Jacksonville. 

Dissertation: “Kashmir as a Protracted Social Conflict: Examining the Role of Non-State Actors in the Policy-making Process” was published as a book by the Cambridge University Press. 

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