Contributors to the issue: A Big History Perspective
Tierney, James
Lewiston, Maine (USA) James Tierney is a social worker, retired from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (USA). His personal interest, since retirement, has been in trying to understand the role of...
Saekow, Roland
University of California, Berkeley, California (USA) Roland Saekow received his bachelor's degree in Science, Technology and Society through the Interdisciplinary Field Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. His...
Quaedackers, Esther
Esther Quaedackers has been teaching Big History at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University College, and the Eindhoven University of Technology since 2006, alongside Fred Spier. She is also working on a PhD that has a thesis topic about the ‘little...
Lawless, Gary
Gary Lawless is a poet, small press publisher and co-owner of Gulf of Maine Bookstore in Brunswick, Maine (USA). He has published 17 collections of poems in the United States and four in Italy. Dr. Lawless has traveled widely to read his poetry...
Metallo, Paula
Coldigioco, Le Marche, Italy Paula Metallo was born in Syracuse, New York (USA) in 1954. She received a BFA in Painting at the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1975. She continued her studies in 1978 at the Accademia delle...
Gronek, Erika K. H.
Phoenix, Arizona (USA) Erika K. H. Gronek is a web-designer, filmmaker, educational technologist, children's book writer and illustrator, and – most importantly – a mother. She holds a BA degree from Arizona State University...
Werkhoven, Jos
Jos Werkhoven was born in Amsterdam in 1950. For thirty years (1972 to 2002), he was a Montessori teacher, director, trainer, supervisor and developer of educational materials. Since 1995, he has run his own publishing...
Hughes, Nigel
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. Nigel С. Hughes was born on a hill in northern England in 1964. He studied Natural History and Geology in the United Kingdom and the...
Panov, Alexander
Alexander D. Panov graduated from Moscow State University, Department of Physics. At present, he is a senior researcher at the Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU SINP), and is CSc (Physics and Mathematics)....
Hookes, David
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside (United Kingdom) David Hookes was born into a working class family close to the Liverpool dock road. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he received a BA in Natural Sciences...
