Chloe Angyal — Public Scholar
Chloe Angyal, PhD, is a journalist from Sydney, Australia who lives in Coralville, Iowa. She is a Contributing Editor at MarieClaire.com and the former Deputy Opinion Editor at HuffPost. Her writing about politics and pop culture has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, and The New Republic.
Angyal is a Facilitator and Senior Fellowship Leader at The OpEd Project. Angyal has a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales and a BA in Sociology from Princeton University. Her academic work focused on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power.
Kathleen Diffley
Kathleen Diffley is Associate Professor in the UI Department of English. Author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitution Reform, 1861-1876, Dr. Diffley has also edited To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, a volume drawn from stories that first circulated in the magazines of the 1860s and 1870s.
William Reisinger
William M. Reisinger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1985. His research concerns authoritarianism and democracy in the former communist states, especially Russia. He has written or edited eight books, including The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime, co-authored with Bryon J. Moraski (University of Michigan Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Brian Ekdale
Brian Ekdale studies media work within global digital cultures, or how and why people create media in the digital era. Much of his research focuses on Kenya, but he also has published scholarship on digital journalism, travel influencers, and social media algorithms. Brian has professional experience as a software trainer, instructional technologist, and documentary filmmaker. His current research project looks at the relationship between the gig economy and the informal economy in Kenya.
Michaela Hoenicke-Moore
At the center of Hoenicke-Moore's research lie two broad themes addressing the cultural underpinnings of international relations and liberal democracy respectively. She is interested in the relationship between the political culture of the United States and its foreign policy, on the one hand, and in European responses to ‘America’ as a democracy and a world power on the other.