Sascha Auerbach is an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Northern British Columbia.

Richard M. Fried is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America (2005) and is writing a biography of Joseph McCarthy.

Derek S. Hoff is an assistant professor of U.S. history at Kansas State University. He is completing a book entitled The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States.

Robert J. Norrell is Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence and professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He has written The House I Live In: Race in the American Century and Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee.

Richard M. Valelly is Claude C. Smith ’14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. His most recent book, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement, has received several professional prizes.

Julian E. Zelizer is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975, On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000, and Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism. Zelizer is completing work on a book about the presidency of Jimmy Carter as well as an edited volume about business and history in American politics.