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Henry Abelove
Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English
Wesleyan University
Gilbert Allen
Professor of English
Furman University
Edward A. Alpers
Professor of History
UCLA
Lynne Anderson-Inman
Associate Professor
College of Education
University of Oregon
Silvia M. Arrom
Jane's Professor of Latin American Studies
Brandeis University
Ronald R. Atkinson
Department of History and Director, African Studies Program
University of South Carolina
Guillaume Aubert
Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
Williams College
Sally Bachner
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University
Judith Bainbridge
Professor of English
Furman University
Peter Baldwin
Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen M. Barber
Associate Professor
Department of English Literature
University of Rhode Island
Gillian Barker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Bucknell University
Philip Barnard
Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor
Department of English
University of Kansas
James R. Barrett
Professor of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. John Barrington
Associate Professor
Department of History
Furman University
Jerome A. Barron
Harold H. Greene Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
Sanjib Baruah
Professor of Political Studies
Bard College
Richard Bausch
Moss Chair of Excellence
Professor of English
The University of Memphis
Frank D. Bean
Chancellors Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy
University of California, Irvine
Calvin Bedient
Professor of English
UCLA
Derrick Bell
Visiting Professor
New York University
School of Law
Ilona D.Bell
Professor of English
Williams College
Patricia Bell-Scott, Ph.D.
Professor, Child and Family Development
University of Georgia
Thomas Bender
University Professor of the Humanities
Department of History
New York University
Lloyd Benson
Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor
Department of History
Furman University
Kimberly W. Benston
Francis B. Gummere Professor of English &
Director, Hurford Humanities Center
Haverford College
Edward Berenson
Professor of History
Director, Institute of French Studies
New York University
Carol L. Bernstein
Mary E. Garret Alumnae Professor Emerita and Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Bryn Mawr College
Richard J. Bernstein
Vera List Professor of Philosophy
New School for Social Research
New York, NY
Joseph Bernt
Professor of Journalism
Associate Director for Graduate Studies
E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University
John Beverley
Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh
Richard B. Bilder
Foley & Lardner - Bascom Emeritus Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
Casey Nelson Blake
Professor of History and American Studies
Columbia University
Paul Blumberg
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Queens College, City University of New York
Susan Bordo
Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities
Professor of English
Gender and Women's Studies Program
University of Kentucky
Greg Bottoms
Associate Professor of English
University of Vermont
Anthony G. Bradley
Corse Professor of English
University of Vermont
Jonathan Brent
Editorial Director
Yale University Press
Geoffrey Brock
Assistant Professor of English
University of Arkansas
David Bromwich
Professor of English
Yale University
Jeffrey Brooks
Professor of History
The Johns Hopkins University
Carole H. Browner
Professor
Center for Culture and Health
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles
Jerome Bruner
University Professor
NYU School of Law
Louis J. Budd
James B Duke Professor of English, Emeritus
Duke University
James Burbank
Professor of English
University of New Mexico
Paulette M. Caldwell
Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor
Department of English
University of Kansas
Tracy Campbell
Professor of History
University of Kentucky
Mary Baine Campbell
Professor
Department of English and American Literature
Brandeis University
William H. Chafe
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History
Duke University
Oscar G. Chase
Russell D. Niles Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
C. Ondine Chavoya
Assistant Professor of Art and Latina/o Studies
Williams College
David Christensen
Professor of Philosophy
University of Vermont
Anna M. Cienciala
Professor of History, Emeritus
University of Kansas
Jonathan Clark
Hall Distinguished Professor of British History
Department of History
University of Kansas
Dennis M. Clausen
Professor of English
University of San Diego
Mary Ann Clawson
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University
Robert Cohen
Professor of English
Middlebury College
David Collings
Professor of English
Bowdoin College
Tony Conrad,
Professor
Department of Media Study
SUNY at Buffalo
David Coombs
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
Cornell University
Joan Copjec
Distinguished Professor of English,
Comparative Literature, and Media Study
SUNY at Buffalo
Daniel Cottom
David A. Burr Chair of Letters
Department of English
University of Oklahoma
Ingrid Creppell
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
George Washington University
Cynthia L. Caywood
Professor of English
University of San Diego
Robert Dallek
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA
Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor
in the Humanities
Vanderbilt University
Michael Denning
William R Kenan Jr Professor of American Studies
Yale University
Carolyn Dever
Professor of English
Vanderbilt University
Martin Dimitrov
Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
Wai Chee Dimock
William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
Yale University
Mary Ann Doane
George Hazard Crooker University Professor
Modern Culture and Media
Brown University
John Donatich
Director
Yale University Press
Michael Donnelly
Professor of Sociology
Bard College
Don H. Doyle
McCausland Professor of History
Director, ARENA Association for Research on
Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas
University of South Carolina
Jennifer Doyle
Associate Professor of English
University of California-Riverside
Mara de Gennaro
Assistant Professor of English
Bucknell University
David King Dunaway
Professor of English
University of New Mexico
Alexander Dunlop
Associate Professor of English Emeritus
Auburn University
Alex Dupuy
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University
Stuart Dybek
Distinguished Writer in Residence
Northwestern University
Peter Elbow
Professor of English Emeritus
University of Massachusetts
Charles V. Eidsvik
Professor of Theatre and Film Studies
Univerity of Georgia
Elizabeth Evans
Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing Program
University of Arizona
Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor
in the Humanities
Vanderbilt University
Carole Fabricant
Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Alice Fahs
Associate Professor of History
University of California, Irvine
Frank Farmer
Associate Professor of English
The University of Kansas
Kirby Farrell
Professor of English
University of Massachusetts
Gordon Fellman
Professor of Sociology
Chair - Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies
Brandeis University
Michael M.J. Fischer
Andrew W. Carnegie Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roberta Fran
Douglas Tracy Smith Professor
Department of English
Yale University
Carl Freedman
Professor of English
Director of English Graduate Studies
Louisiana State University
Daniel Fineman
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College
Adam Flint
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Hartwick College
Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
Associate Director
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Northwestern University
Robert J. Fogelin
Professor of Philosophy (emeritus)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
Richard C. Fording
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, and
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
University of Kentucky
Douglas Foster
Associate Professor of Journalism
Medill School
Northwestern University
Daniela Garofalo
Assistant Professor of English
University of Oklahoma
David A. Gerber
UB Distinguished Professor
Department of History
University at Buffalo
Glenda Gilmore
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor
Department of History
Yale University
Todd Gitlin
Professor of Journalism and Sociology
Graduate School of Journalism
James Given
Professor of History
University of California, Irvine
Nancy Glazener
Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
Rebecca M. Gordon
Asst. Professor of English & Humanities
Reed College
Walter Goffart
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer
Department of History
Yale University
Bryna Goodman
Professor
Department of History
University of Oregon
Richard Graham
Emeritus Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
Maurine Greenwald
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Elinor Kelley Grusin, Ph.D.
Professor
Co-Editor, Newspaper Research Journal
Department of Journalism
The University of Memphis
Lillian Guerra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Caribbean History
Department of History
Yale University
Anil Gupta
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
Janet Hadda
Professor of English Emerita
Department of English
UCLA
Jane Hale
Associate Professor of French & Comparative Literature
Brandeis University
Tona Hangen, Ph.D.
Lecturer in History and American Studies
Brandeis University
Charles Hardy III
Professor of History
West Chester University
Martin Harries
Associate Professor of English
New York University
William J. Harris
Associate Professor of English
University of Kansas
Andrew P. Haley, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
University of Southern Mississippi
Richard F Hardin
Frances Stiefel Professor of English
University of Kansas
Geoffrey Hartman
Sterling Professor of English (Emeritus)
Yale University
Alan Heineman
Professor of English
Director, Honors Program in the Humanities
University of San Francisco
Brian Henry
Associate Professor of English and Creative
Writing
University of Richmond
Cynthia Herrup
Professor of History and Law
University of Southern California
Michael B. Herzog
Professor of English
Gonzaga University
Raymond F. Hilliard
Chair: Department of English
Professor of English
University of Richmond
Thomas E. Hodges, Jr.
Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University
Curt Holleman
Deputy Director
Central University Libraries
Southern Methodist University
Stephen Holmes
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Woody Holton
Associate Professor of History
University of Richmond
Robert Houston
Professor, English/Creative Writing
The University of Arizona
Daniel Walker Howe
Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus
Oxford University, England
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA
Niklas Hultin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Swarthmore College
Norris Hundley
Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Georg G. Iggers
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus
University at Buffalo
Wilma Iggers
Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus
Canisius College
Caren Irr
Associate Professor of English and American Literature
Brandeis University
Ray Jackendoff
Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
Tufts University
Margaret C. Jacob
Professor of History
UCLA
Travis B Jacobs
Fletcher D. Proctor Professor
Department of History
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Chair, American Studies
Yale University
Russell Jacoby
Professor in Residence
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Jarman
Centennial Professor of English
Vanderbilt University
Dianne Johnson
Professor of English
University of South Carolina
Patricia A. Johnston
Editor, Vergilius
Professor of Classics
Brandeis University
Dept. of Classical Studies
Paul E. Johnson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in History
University of South Carolina
Suzanne Jones
Professor of English
University of Richmond
John T. Jost
Associate Professor of Psychology
New York University
Jonathan Judaken
Associate Professor of History
Director - Marcus Orr Humanities Center
University of Memphis
R. A. Judy
Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies
Department of English
University of Pittsburgh
Arthur Kaledin
Professor of History Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rodger Kamenetz
Professor of English
Louisiana State University
Indira Karamcheti
Associate Professor of English
Wesleyan University
Nikki Keddie
Professor Emerita of History
UCLA
Kathryn R. Kent
Associate Professor of English
Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Williams College
Randi Koeske, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Daniel J. Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor of History
Department of History
Yale University
Karen Klein
Associate Professor Emerita of English and Interdisciplinary Humanities
Brandeis University
Gary F. Koeske
Professor of Social Work
Doctoral Program Director
University of Pittsburgh
Peter D. Kramer, M. D. < b />
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University
James Krippner
Associate Professor of History
Haverford College
Katherine A. Lancaster
Managing Editor
ETHNOLOGY
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Donna R. Leff
Professor of Journalism
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
Irina Livezeanu
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Lokangaka Losambe
Professor and Chair
Department of English
University of Vermont
Ira C. Lupu
F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor of Law
George Washington University School of Law
Juliet Flower MacCannell
Professor Emerita
English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
David A.J. Macey
Professor of History and Russian Studies
Middlebury College
Steven Mailloux
Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric
Department of English
University of California, Irvine
Neepa Majumdar
Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
Wanda Martin
Associate Professor
English Language & Literature
University of New Mexico
David Mason
Associate Professor of English
The Colorado College
D. A. Masullo, Ph.D
Department of English
Program in American Studies
Vanderbilt University
Jack D. Marietta
Professor of History
University of Arizona
Valerie J. Matsumoto
Associate Professor of History
UCLA
Wm. Duncan McArthur
Professor of English
Furman University
Robert W. McChesney
Gutgsell Endowed Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Todd McGowan
Associate Professor
Director of Film and Television Studies
University of Vermont
Gage McWeeny
Assistant Professor of English
Stetson Hall
Williams College
Elgin W. Mellown
Associate Professor of English, Emeritus
Duke University
John Merriman
Charles Seymour Professor of History
Yale University
Rajeswari Mohan
Associate Professor of English
Haverford College
Robert Mortimer
Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
Haverford College
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant
Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
Yale University
Fred Myers
Silver Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
New York University
Gaura Shankar Narayan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Literature
Purchase College SUNY
Fred G. Notehelfer
Professor of History
Director, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard Oestreicher
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Barbara L. Packer
Professor of English
UCLA
Gayle Pemberton
Professor of English, African American Studies American Studies
Wesleyan University
Andrew Parker
Professor of English
Amherst College
Dr. Blaise Parker
Assistant Director of Women's Studies
University of Georgia
Bill Parton,
Director
Pendergraft Library
Arkansas Tech University
Karen Petrone
Associate Professor of History
University of Kentucky
Kenneth Pomeranz
Chancellor`s Professor of History
University of California, Irvine
Claire Potter
Associate Professor of History
Wesleyan University
James G. Pope
Professor of Law
Rutgers University School of Law
Joe Ashby Porter
Professor of English
Duke University
Noel Pugach
Professor of History
University of New Mexico
Hilary Putnam
Cogan University Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Harvard University
Gail Radford
Associate Professor of History
SUNY?Buffalo
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Global Distinguished Professor
Department of English
New York University
Herbert Reid
Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky
Joan Retallack
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities
Bard College
Jaime E. Rodr�guez
Professor of History
Editor, Mexican Studies
University of California, Irvine
Jack Rollwagon
Professor Emeritus
Suny College at Brockport
New York University
Randall Roorda
Associate Professor of English
University of Kentucky
Emily S. Rosenberg
Professor of History
University of California, Irvine
Joseph Rouse< br/>
Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
Ruben G. Rumbaut
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
Frederick H. Russell
Associate Professor of History
Rutgers University
Thomas Russell
Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
University of Memphis
David W. Rutledge
Pitts Professor & Chair
Department of Religion
Furman University
Darrell Sabers
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
University of Arizona
Mark E. Sandberg, Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus
College of Business Administration.
Rider University
Andrea Stevenson Sanjian
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Bucknell University
Pancho Savery
Professor of English, Humanities, and American Studies
Reed College
Stuart B. Schwartz
George Burton Adams Professor of History
Yale University
Richard A. Schwartz
Professor of English
Florida International University
Michael Schudson
Distinguished Professor
Dept of Communication
University of California, San Diego
Helen Scott
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Vermont
Sharon Cadman Seelig
Professor of English
and Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities
Smith College
Mary Segers
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University
Elayne Shapiro
Chair, Department of Communication Studies
University of Portland
Matthew Sharpe
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University
Lytle Shaw
Assistant Professor of English
New York University
Erik Simpson
Associate Professor of English
Grinnell College
Shanti Marie Singham
Professor of History
Williams College
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Duke University
Gaddis Smith
Larned Professor of History Emeritus
Yale University
Mark M. Smith
Carolina Distinguished Professor
General Editor, Southern Classics Series
Department of History
University of South Carolina
Angela Sorby
Associate Professor of English
Marquette University
Arthur Spears
Professor of Anthropology
City College, Graduate Center
City University of New York
Roderick Stackelberg
Professor of History Emeritus
Gonzaga University
Gustavus T. Stadler
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of English
Haverford College
Susan Staves
Professor Emerita
Department of English and American Literature
Brandeis University
Wayne Steffen
University Editor
Fresno Pacific University
J. David Stevens
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
University of Richmond
Robert Stevenson
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy
SUNY - Buffalo
Marla Stone
Professor of History
Occidental College
Richard P. Sugg
Professor of English & Humanities
Florida International University
Karen Swann
Professor of English
Williams College
Heidi Swarts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark
Marcia G. Synnott
Professor Emerita of History,
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Andreas Teuber
Chair and Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Brandeis University
Cecelia Tichi
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Tiger, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of English
Rutgers University
Magda Teter
Assistant Professor of History
Wesleyan University
Carol B. Thompson
Research Chair, Association of Concerned
Africa Scholars (ACAS)
Professor, Political Economy
Northern Arizona University
Helen Thompson
Associate Professor of English
Northwestern University
Dr. Bruce Torrence
Professor of Mathematics
Randolph-Macon College
Peter Travis
Professor of English
Dartmouth College
Judith Treas
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
Irene Tucker
Associate Professor of English
University of California, Irvine
Brian Turner
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Randolph-Macon College
Carole-Anne Tyler
Associate Professor of English,
and Film and Visual Culture
University of California ? Riverside
Gayle Wald
Professor of English
George Washington University
Jessica Wang
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in U.S. History
Department of History
University of British Columbia
Chris Waters
Professor of History
Williams College
Robert N. Watson
Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation
UCLA
Dora B. Weiner
Professor of the Medical Humanities and History
UCLA
Barbara Weinstein
Professor of History
New York University
Robert Westbrook
Professor of History
University of Rochester
Alan White
Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy
Williams College
John Whittaker
Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Louisiana State University
Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Assistant Professor of Government
Wesleyan University
Richard Dien Winfield
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Georgia
Philip K. Wion
Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
M. Norton Wise
Co-Director, Center for Society and Genetics
Distinguished Professor of History
Department of History
UCLA