Robert Matthew Oppenheim is an American scholar of Korean studies. He is a professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. [1]
Oppenheim majored in anthropology at Princeton University, graduating in 1991. He received his Ph.D. (2003) and M.A. (1995) in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. At the University of Texas, he directed the Center for East Asian Studies from 2011 to 2015. [2] He is the author of the book Kyǒngju Things: Assembling Place (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008). [3]
In 2015, Oppenheim won the Global Korea Award of the Council on Korean Studies at Michigan State University. [4]
Robert Lynn Ivie is an American academic known for his works on American public rhetoric concerning war and terrorism.
Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also the chairman of the Board of Editors for the Texas National Security Review.
Matthew T. Kapstein is a scholar of Tibetan religions, Buddhism, and the cultural effects of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He is Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Director of Tibetan Studies at the École pratique des hautes études.
Jerry Herron is an American academic, the founding dean and dean emeritus of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University, and the former president of the National Collegiate Honors Council.
Aneesh Aneesh is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology. Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs and the global studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at Stanford University and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field of algorithmic governance in the social sciences. Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global, Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.
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Sandra Lach Arlinghaus is an American Geographer who is adjunct professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Her research concerns mathematical geography much of which is archived in the persistent archive, Deep Blue, at The University of Michigan. She is the Founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography (IMaGe) and of Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics; full archives of both are also archived in Deep Blue. She is noted as a 'mathematician' in the online Mathematical Genealogy Project of the North Dakota State University/American Mathematical Society that is housed online. She has served on various boards of directors, including : Project My Heart / Your Heart, Chene Street History Study, and Meridian Architectural Trust.
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Susan Lynn Cutter is an American geographer and disaster researcher who is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography and director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina. She is the author or editor of many books on disasters and disaster recovery. Her areas of expertise include the factors that make people and places susceptible to disasters, how people recover from disasters, and how to map disasters and disaster hazards. She chaired a committee of the National Research Council that in 2012 recommended more open data in disaster-monitoring systems, more research into disaster-resistant building techniques, and a greater emphasis on the ability of communities to recover from future disasters.
Dan Stone is an English historian. He is professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and director of its Holocaust Research Institute. Stone specializes in 20th-century European history, genocide, and fascism. He is the author or editor of several works on Holocaust historiography, including Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and an edited collection, The Historiography of the Holocaust (2004).
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Monica Louise Smith is an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian of ancient cities and their household activities. She is Professor and Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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