Colin C Williams is Professor of Public Policy in the Management School at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His research interests include the informal economy, entrepreneurship and economic development, subjects on which he has published over 20 books and 350 articles over the pas...
I am an economic historian, specializing on Asia, political economy and demographic history. In my recent scholarship I have concentrated on analyzing the interaction of ideology - nationalist, religious, materialist and anti-materialist, pro- and anti-science - with economic growth. Indicative of m...
Deborah Fish Ragin is a Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University. She earned her A.B. in Psychology and Hispanic Studies from Vassar College in 1978 and her M.A. and PhD in Psychology from Harvard University in 1985. She served as an Assistant Professor of Community Health Education at...
Dr. Sinkaya works as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at AnkaraYıldırım Beyazıt University, and advisor at ORSAM (Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies, Ankara). He received his Ph.D. at the Middle East Technical University (METU), where he worked as a research assistant (2002...
As a professional writer and performer for almost fifty years, I've been a visiting writer in thousands of schools throughout Britain & in dozens of countries worldwide. I've published more than forty books, mostly of poetry. As a journalist I'm a columnist, reviewer & features writer with the UK jo...
Dr. Sherri L. Wallace is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville. She has published peer-reviewed articles on college textbook diversity, race and politics, community economic development, and women and faculty of color in academe. She is the recipient of n...
I'm a retired engineer and educator, with experience of working in the Armed Forces, government service, and the private sector. I have lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. I now live near Pafos, in Cyprus.
Rattana Lao (Amp) is interested in understanding the influences of westernization, globalization and marketization in education policy. Trained in Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, Rattana's work has used the politics, economics and culture of borrowin...
Björn Quiring is assistant professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin and a postdoctoral research fellow of the research group “The Role of Nature in Conceptualising Political Order: Ancient - Medieval - Early Modern” at Ludwig Maximilian Unive...
Brooke Schedneck is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. She holds a Ph.D. in Asian Religions from Arizona State University. Along with her book, "Thailand's International Meditation Centers," she has been published in journals for the study...