Contributors

Milbre Burch is a folklorist, a nationally known storyteller, a Grammy nominated spoken word artist, a produced and published playwright and an independent scholar. She has been the performance review editor for Storytelling, Self, Society: an interdisciplinary journal of storytelling studies (2009-2012), the co-convener of the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore Society (2012-2016) and the senior convener for the Playwriting Symposium of the MidAmerica Theatre Conference (2017). She was a Finalist in the National Ten-Minute Play Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (2013) and was nominated for a Spoken Word GRAMMY for her album, Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories for a Wounded World (2007). In the US and abroad, she has presented performed research on the Muslim travel ban, the fluidity of gender identity, and domestic violence. Her archival collection, the Storytelling Project, is housed in the Cotsen Children’s Library, a special collection at Princeton University.
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Katrina Gaber is currently doing her PhD in Peace and Development Studies at The School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her research interests concern connections between nationalism and resistance. The current research project focuses on Thailand, but earlier publications have been on nationalist developments in Sweden (under former surname Hirvonen).
Email address: katrina.gaber@globalstudies.gu.se

Juan D. Suárez Gómez is researcher at the International Research Center for the Development, a co-joint binational initiative between the College of Education of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Ford Foundation and The UNIMINUTO university at Bogotá, Colombia. Juan completed his Ph.D. at The University of Missouri-Columbia (2017) and his undergraduate studies at the National University in Medellín, Colombia. His research interests lie in the area of Political Economy, Subaltern studies and Sociology of Violence. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of Education and Anthropology, particularly computer of Historical approaches about inequalities in the Latin American Region.
Email address: juan.suarez.g@uniminuto.edu. juansuarez36@gmail.com.

Richard Hessler, Ph.D. is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He publishes in the areas of gerontology and methodology. He is presently working on the epigenetics of Alzheimer’s disease. He is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Tola Olu Pearce, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies, and faculty advisor in the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She obtained her Ph.D. from Brown University, Rhode Island. Research interests: sociology of healthand illness, gender, social inequalities, development/globalization and human rights. She is co- editor of IJCR.
Email address: pearcei@missouri.edu