E. Ann Matter is former Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies, biblical interpretation and sacred music.
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
Hilton Obenzinger is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is a postcolonial theorist and literary critic.
Lawrence B. Glickman is an American history professor and author or editor of four books and several articles on consumerism. He has taught at Cornell University since 2014, where he is Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies. Previously he taught at the University of South Carolina. Glickman earned a Princeton University B.A. in history magna cum laude in 1985, a M.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1992 both from University of California, Berkeley. He has written three books, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America, and Free Enterprise: An American History.
Barbara G. Taylor is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, was a Métis Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians attorney, Native American rights activist, and suffragist. In 1914, Baldwin was the first Native American student to graduate from the Washington College of Law. She worked in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was an officer in the Society of American Indians.
Settler colonialism is a logic and structure of displacement by settlers, using colonial rule, over an environment for replacing it and its indigenous peoples with settlements and the society of the settlers.
The National Council of American Indians(NCAI) was established in February 1926. This organization's purpose was to advocate for Native American rights and representation before the United States government.
Grant Parker is a South African-born associate professor of classics at Stanford University in the United States. Parker's principal research interests are Imperial Latin Literature, the portrayal of Egypt and India in the Roman Empire and Classical Reception in South Africa.
Jonathan N.C. Hill is a British academic in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London based at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College.
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir is a mixed-genre book by Deborah Miranda published by Heyday Books in 2013. The book is part tribal history of the California Mission Indians and part family memoir. It combines different media and genres including oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, poems, and personal reflection to narrate the stories of Miranda’s family, who were members of the Ohlone/Costanoan – Esselen Nation, along with the experiences of California Indigenous people from the time of the Spanish missions into the present.
Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist, folklorist and writer.
Bonnie Costello is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University. Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden, and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting and still life.
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she was an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders. She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018–2019 school year. Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism was published in November 2018. It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.
Lu Ann Homza is an American historian and scholar of the intellectual history of medieval and early modern Europe. She is a professor at the College of William and Mary and the school's former Dean for Educational Policy.
Beth Piatote is a Nimi:pu: scholar and author. She is a member of Chief Joseph’s Tribe and the Colville Confederated Tribes. Piatote is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies in the department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Piatote holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.
Miriamne Ara Krummel is an American professor of English at the University of Dayton, and a scholar of Jewish studies. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and has a master's degree from Hunter College and Ph.D. from Lehigh University. Her 2002 dissertation was Fables, Facts, and Fictions: Jewishness in the English Middle Ages, directed by Patricia Clare Ingham.
Tison Pugh is a literary scholar. He has been a professor of English at the University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2006. Before coming to UCF, Pugh was a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, in the 2000–2001 academic year.
Andrew MayFRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.
