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Leslie M. Alexander

Associate Professor, University of Oregon

PhD: Cornell University

Shawn Leigh Alexander

Professor and Director of the Langston Hughes Center, The University of Kansas

PhD: University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Catherine Allgor

President, Massachusetts Historical Society

PhD: Yale University

Joyce Oldham Appleby ✝

Former Professor Emerita, University of California-Los Angeles; Former President-Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Claremont Graduate School

Stephen Aron

Professor and Chair, Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center; Former President of the Western History Association, University of California, Los Angeles

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

Edward E. Baptist

Professor, Cornell University

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Richard Bell

Associate Professor, University of Maryland

PhD: Harvard University

Ira Berlin ✝

Former Distinguished Professor of History, University of Maryland; Former President-Organization of American Historians; Member-American Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael T. Bernath

Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Miami

PhD: Harvard University

Daina Ramey Berry

Associate Professor, The University of Texas-Austin

PhD: University of California-Los Angeles

Richard J. M. Blackett

Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

M.A.: University of Manchester, England

David W. Blight

Class of 1954 Professor of American History; Director, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University; Former President of the Society of American Historians; Trustee or Advisory Board memberships include the New York Historical Society, the Benjamin Franklin Papers at Yale, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ashley N. Bouknight

Curator, The Hermitage

Phd: Middle Tennessee State University

John L. Brooke

Professor and Director of the OSU Center for Historical Research; Former President-Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, The Ohio State University

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

James F. Brooks

Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara

PhD: University of California, Davis

Vincent Brown

Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Phd: Duke University

Jon Butler

Professor Emeritus, Yale University; Former President-Organization of American Historians

Phd: University of Minnesota

Jane E. Calvert

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

PhD: University of Chicago

Katherine Mellen Charron

Assistant Professor, NC State University

PhD: Yale University

Deirdre Cooper-Owens

The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Director-Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia

PhD: University of California, Los Angeles

Robert J. Cottrol

Professor, The George Washington University

PhD: Yale University/JD Georgetown University

Edward F. Countryman

Professor, Southern Methodist University

PhD: Cornell University

Anna-Lisa Cox

Non-Resident Fellow, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University

PhD; University of Illinois

Brian DeLay

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

PhD: Harvard University

Charles B. Dew

Professor Williams College

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

W. Marvin Dulaney

Associate Professor of History Emeritus, University of Texas-Arlington

PhD: The Ohio State University

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Charles & Mary Beard Professor of History, Rutgers University; Inaugural Director-Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia

PhD: Columbia University

Douglas R. Egerton

Professor, Le Moyne College; President-Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Georgetown University

Drew Gilpin Faust

President Emeritus and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University; 28th President of Harvard University (2007-2018); Former President-Southern Historical Association; Elected to the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Sheila Flemming-Hunter

Professor, Clark Atlanta University; Former National President - Association for the Study of African American Life and History

PhD: Howard University

Eric Foner

Dewitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University; Former President - Organization of American Historians, American Historical Society and Society of American Historians

PhD: Columbia University

Robert Pierce Forbes

Lecturer in History, Southern Connecticut State University; Founding Associate Director-Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University; Principal-Forbes Research

PhD: Yale University

Leigh K. Fought

Associate Professor of History, LeMoyne College

PhD: University of Houston

James W. Fraser

Professor of History and Education and Department Chair, New York University- Steinhardt

PhD: Columbia University

Estelle B. Freedman

Professor of United States History/Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History, Stanford University

PhD: Columbia University

Joanne Freeman

Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University

PhD: University of Virginia

Craig Thompson Friend

Professor and Director of Public History, NC State University; Former President-Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: University of Kentucky

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University; 1998 National Humanities Medal Recipient

PhD: Clare College, The University of Cambridge

Jonathan Gienapp

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Lorri Glover

Professor, Saint Louis University

PhD: University of Kentucky

Michael Goode

Assistant Professor, Utah Valley University

PhD: University of Illinois at Chicago

Sarah Barringer Gordon

Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; President - American Society for Legal History; 2017 Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress

J.D.: Yale Law School

PhD: Princeton University

Annette Gordon-Reed

Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History and Harvard Law School Professor of History; 2009 National Humanities Medal recipient; MacArthur Fellows Program "Genius Grant" recipient; Immediate Past President-Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

JD: Harvard Law School

Van E. Gosse

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Franklin & Marshall College

PhD: Rutgers University

Cheryl Greenberg

Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College

PhD: Columbia University

J. David Hacker

Associate Professor and Demographic Historian, The University of Minnesota

PhD: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Christopher Hager

Associate Professor of English, Trinity College; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient: Frederick Douglass Book Prize Recipient

PhD: Northwestern University

Steven Hahn

Professor, New York University

PhD: Yale University

Robert L. Hall

Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University

PhD: Florida State Uninvesity

Scott Hancock

Associate Professor, Gettysburg College

PhD: University of New Hampshire

Deborah J. Henry

Professor, St. Louis Community College-Meramec Campus

Phd: University of Minnesota

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Department Chair and Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; National President - Association for the Study of African American Life and History; W.E.B Du Bois Medalist, 2013; 2014 National Humanities Medal Recipient

PhD: University of Rochester

Darlene Clark Hine

Visiting Hanah Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University; 2013 National Humanities Medal Recipient; Former National President-Organization of American Historians

PhD: Kent State University

Graham Hodges

Professor, Colgate University

PhD: New York University

Woody Holton

Professor, University of South Carolina

PhD: Duke University

Harold Holzer

Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College - City University of New York; 2008 National Humanities Medal recipient

Lois E. Horton

Professor Emerita, George Mason University

PhD: Brandeis University

James L. Huston

Regents Professor of History, Oklahoma State University

PhD: University of Illinois

Z. Maurice Jackson

Associate Professor, Georgetown University

PhD: Georgetown University

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

PhD: Duke University

Jessica Marie Johnson

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

PhD: University of Maryland, College Park

Walter Johnson

Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Phd: Princeton University

Trenton Cole Jones

Assistant Professor, Purdue University

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Ibram X. Kendi

Professor and Founding Director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research

PhD: Temple University

Kelly Kennington

Associate Professor, Auburn University

PhD: Duke University

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

Professor, Howard University

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Jon Kershner

Assistant Visiting Professor, Pacific Lutheran University

PhD: University of Birmingham (UK)

David Thomas Konig

Professor Emeritus of History, Washington University in St. Louis and Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis Law School

PhD: Harvard University

Gary Kornblith

Professor Emeritus, Oberlin College & Conservatory

PhD: Princeton University

John L. Larson

Professor, Purdue University, Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Brown University

Carol Lasser

Professor Emerita, Oberlin College & Conservatory; Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Harvard University

Andrew G. Levy

Edna Cooper Chair in English and Full Professor, Butler University

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Andrew Lipman

Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College - Columbia University

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

James W. Loewen

Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

PhD: Harvard University

Chandra M. Manning

Professor, The Georgetown University

PhD: Harvard University

Lerone A. Martin

Assistant Professor, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis

PhD: Emory University

Matthew E. Mason

Associate Professor, Brigham Young University; Co-Director-Historians Against Slavery

PhD: University of Maryland

Robert McColley

Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PhD: Harvard University

Marie Basile McDaniel

Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven

PhD: University of California, Davis

W. Caleb McDaniel

Associate Professor, Rice University

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Michael McDonnell

Professor, The University of Sydney

PhD: Balliol College, Oxford

Noeleen Mcilvenna

Professor, Wright State University

PhD: Duke University

Alisea W. McLeod

Chair of Humanities, Rust College

PhD: University of Michigan

Joanne Pope Melish

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

PhD: Brown University

Jennifer L. Morgan

Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis & History and Chair, New York University

PhD: Duke University

Celia E. Naylor

Associate Professor, Barnard College - Columbia University

PhD: Duke University

Tamika Nunley

Assistant Professor, Oberlin College & Conservatory

PhD: University of Virginia

Peter S. Onuf

Professor, University of Virginia; Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Professor and Associate Director, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri

PhD: Harvard University

Steve Peraza

Assistant Professor, Buffalo State-The State University of New York

PhD: State University of New York-Buffalo

Mark A. Peterson

Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, Yale University

PhD: Harvard University

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Assistant Professor, Smith College

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

Patrick Rael

Professor, Bowdoin College

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

Marcus Rediker

Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburg; Winner of the George Washington Book Prize for The Slave Ship: A Human History

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Padraig Riley

Visiting Associate Professor, Reed College

Phd: University of California, Berkeley

Andrew W. Robertson

Associate Professor, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center

PhD: Oxford University

Stacey Robertson

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Geneseo-The State University of New York

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

David R. Roediger

Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History, The University of Kansas; Former President-American Studies Association

PhD: Northwestern University

Jarod Heath Roll

Associate Professor of History, The University of Mississippi

PhD: Northwestern University

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

PhD: Harvard University

Charles K. Ross

Professor of History and African American Studies, The University of Mississippi

PhD: The Ohio State University

Joshua D. Rothman

Professor and Department Chair, The University of Alabama

PhD: University of Virginia

Edward Rugemer

Associate Professor, Yale University

PhD: Boston College

Claudio Saunt

Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History, Duke University

PhD: University of Georgia

Martha Saxton

Professor, Amherst College

PhD: Columbia University

Constance B. Schultz

Senior Editor & Project Director-The Pinckney Papers, University of South Carolina

PhD: University of Cincinnati

Chernoh Sesay, Jr.

Assistant Professor, DePaul University

PhD: Northwestern University

Andrew Shankman

Professor of History and Graduate Program Director, Rutgers University, Camden

PhD: Princeton University

James Sidbury

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Rice University

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Silvana R. Siddali

Associate Professor, Saint Louis University

PhD: Harvard University

Manisha Sinha

Draper Professor of Early American History, University of Connecticut

PhD: Columbia University

Sheila L. Skemp

Professor Emerita, University of Mississippi

PhD: University of Iowa

James B. Stewart

James Wallace Professor of History Emeritus and former Provost, Macalester College; Founder-Historians Against Slavery; Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Case Western Reserve University

William Sturkey

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PhD: The Ohio State University

Monica M. Tetzlaff

Associate Professor of History, Indiana University South Bend

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

Tamara Plakins Thornton

Professor, University of Buffalo

PhD: Yale University

Beverly C. Tomek

Associate Provost for University College and Associate Professor of History, University of Houston-Victoria

PhD: University of Houston

Anne S. Twitty

Associate Professor and Chair of the Undergraduate Committee, The University of Mississippi

Phd: Princeton University

David Waldstreicher

Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center-City University of New York

PhD: Yale University

Harry L. Watson

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Northwestern University

Judith Weisenfeld

Professor, Princeton University

PhD: Princeton University

Kimberly M. Welch

Assistant Professor of History/Assistant Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

PhD: University of Maryland

Derrick E. White

Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

PhD: Ohio State University

Jessica C. Wilkerson

Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies, The University of Mississippi

PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Julie P. Winch

Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

PhD: Bryn Mawr College

Nicholas P. Wood

Assistant Professor, Spring Hill College

PhD: University of Virginia

Peter H. Wood

Professor Emeritus, Duke University

PhD: Harvard University

James E. Wright

Eleazar Wheelock Professor Emeritus of History, Dartmouth College; Former President-Dartmouth College (1998-2009)

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Donald Yacovone

Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

PhD: Claremont Graduate School

Joseph Yannielli

Assistant Professor, Aston University-UK

PhD: Yale University

Rosemarie Zagarri

University Professor, George Mason University; Former President - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

PhD: Yale University

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