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Dr. Kendra Taira Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale, 2018), which traced her own...

Anna Deavere Smith is University Professor in Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. 

Charmaine A. Nelson was appointed a Provost Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022 where she founded the Slavery North Initiative. Her nine books include The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in...

Justine McConnell is Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London. Her research focuses on African diaspora literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, on ancient Greek literature, and on the...

Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is Colombia’s first Afro-Colombian Minister of National Education and former Deputy Minister of Higher Education, where she advanced equity and access in higher education while shaping national policy. She is the founder of the...

Jordan Taliha McDonald is a Doctoral Candidate in the English Department with a secondary field in History of Science at Harvard University. Her scholarship primarily examines how literary, scientific, and aesthetic ideas of complicity and fidelity were...

Ted Widmer is an historian and former presidential adviser who writes widely on history, politics and their intersection.  He is Distinguished Lecturer at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York.  

From 1997 to 2001, he was a foreign...