Curran is a biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology and paleoecology. Her research focuses on reconstructing the environments that our ancestors lived in and assessing how sites are formed. She is particularly interested in the earliest dispersals of Homo erectus into Eurasia and is the co-PI of a research project in south-central Romania (Oltet River Valley) and has worked on sites in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Georgia (the country).

Dr. Edmond Y. Chang is an associate professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture; race, gender, and sexuality; video games, analog games, LARP, queer game studies; feminist media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; and 20/21Century American literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on queer American literature, speculative literature of color, virtual worlds, games, everyday media, and writing.  

Myrna Perez is an associate professor jointly appointed in Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as executive director of the Cutler Scholar’s Program at Ohio University. She is a historian of evolutionary theory, a feminist and critical -race theorist, and a scholar of religion. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Science Department at Harvard University and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Musaraj takes an anthropological approach to the study of economic transitions, informal economy, and corruption. She earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from The New School for Social Research in 2012, and was Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine from 2012-2014.

Lybarger is a religious studies specialist focusing on Islam and comparative religions, with more than 20 years of experience in ethnographic field study methods. His research and teaching have focused on how religion, nationalism, war, mass displacement, and state violence shape identities and demands for justice across generations.

Jungkunz is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Provost-awarded Transformative Faculty Member, Dean’s Outstanding Teacher, and University Professor at Ohio University.  His theorizing, research, and writing have focused on Critical Race Theory, Whiteness, Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender, Political Theory, Law & Society, Politics of Resistance, Silence, Identity Formation, and American Politics.  He teaches a wide range of courses on Critical Race Theory, Democratic Theory, Law and Society, Political Theory and American Politics including: “Ameri

Ng is an associate professor at Ohio University, in the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

With a slipping economy and high unemployment rates, more and more people have to dip into savings or take on additional jobs to support themselves. But for some, that may still not be enough.

Dr. Anderson has devoted years of research into studying the low-income working class - those already poor becoming more impoverished during tough economic times.

Michael Kopish is a professor of teacher education at Ohio University’s Patton College of Education with expertise in instructional practices and assessments that emphasize disciplinary literacy in social studies. His major interests include teaching and learning in social studies classrooms; inclusive disciplinary literacy practices; and youth civic engagement.

Nicole Kaufman is an affiliate with Ohio University’s Center for Law, Justice and Culture. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Kaufman’s research areas cover political sociology, criminology and penology, law and society, and qualitative methods. Her research examines the meaning of social inclusion and the policies and laws that hinder and help extend citizenship rights to Americans.