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Daniel Epps, professor of law

Elizabeth Carlen, postdoctoral research associate in biology

Tazeen Ali, assistant professor of religion and politics

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center,

Ray Boshara, senior policy advisor at the Center for Social Development

Cultures differ around the world, meaning each city has its own set of variables that shape the evolutionary processes of wildlife. Understanding how these human cultural practices shape evolutionary patterns will allow people to better design cities that support both humans and the wildlife that call these places home, writes Elizabeth Carlen.

Timothy McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor at the School of Public Health

Randall J. Bateman, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology

Translating these men’s writing is not just a matter of bringing a text from one language into another. It is also a deep reflection on the complex position of Jews and conversos in those years. Their unique vantage point offers a window into the intertwined histories of Europe, the Americas and the in-betweenness that marked the Jewish experience in the early modern world, writes Flora Cassen.

The spiral of silence becomes inimical to pluralistic debate, discussion and, ultimately, to democracy itself, writes James L. Gibson.