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Affliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury
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Senior Lecturer in Religion and Education, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Anthropology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University
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PhD candidate and co-owner of Desmond Tours, Technological University of the Shannon
