All Experts

All Experts

Stephen Brain

Field: History of Science and Technology, Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, War, Power, International Affairs

Topics: environmental history, international affairs, Russia

Bio / Description:

Dr. Stephen Brain is an associate professor in the Department of History and a co-editor of Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. His research focuses on Soviet/Russian history, environmental history, and forest history as well as war, power, and international affairs. He is available to comment on the Russian-…

Stephan Brain

Field: Soviet/ Russian History, Environmental History, Forest History

Topics: War, Power, International Affairs, Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History, History of Science and Technology

Bio / Description:

Dr. Brain is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His research interests include Soviet and Russian History, Environmental History, and Forest History. He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. 

Tonya Hays

Field: Theatre

Topics: acting, directing , playwriting, humanities

Bio / Description:

Tonya Hays is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication teaching acting, playwriting, directing, theatre for young audiences and theatre for change.  Her recent Theatre MSU productions include Banner: a Sea Turtle Saga which engaged audience members in the fate of sea life in climate change and challenged them to take action. This production garnered international…

Andrew Lang

Field: u.s. civil war era, nineteenth-century united states

Topics: u.s. south, american war and society

Bio / Description:

Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America and the U. S. Civil War Era. His most recent book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021), is published in the University of North Carolina Press’s landmark series, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Prof. Lang serves on the…

Keith Moser

Field: French-Francophone Literature, Modern Foreign Languages

Topics: anti-vaccination movement, environmental humanities, environmentalism, fake news and disinformation, French-Francophone literature, Harki studies , late-stage capitalism, medical humanities, neoliberalism, post-truth politics

Bio / Description:

Dr. Keith Moser is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures.  He has more than 100 major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles.  Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice.  He is widely recognized by the international academic community as an expert in…