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Catherine Allgor
Massachusetts Historical Society
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
General and Historiography
Leadership
Stephen Berry
University of Georgia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Civil War and Reconstruction
Digital history
John H. Bracey Jr.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
American Indian
Jewish
Nicole Burrowes
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Transnational and Comparative
African American
James T. Campbell
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Human Rights
Leadership
Richard Carwardine
Oxford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
General and Historiography
Miroslava Chávez-García
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Latino/a
Race
Immigration
Stan Deaton
Georgia Historical Society
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Public History and Memory
Civil War and Reconstruction
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Bruce J. Dierenfield
Canisius College; Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
General and Historiography
Angela D. Dillard
University of Michigan
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Intellectual
Leadership
Nicole Eustace
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
Colonial
Family
Max Paul Friedman
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
International Relations
Kevin Gaines
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Music
Populism
Matt Garcia
Dartmouth College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Borderlands
Business and Economics
Michael S. Green
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cold War
Gerald Lee Gutek
Loyola University Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Childhood and Youth
Education
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Joan Hoff
Montana State University, Bozeman
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Civil Rights
General and Historiography
Jonathan Scott Holloway
Northwestern University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Intellectual
Post-1945
David H. Jackson Jr.
Florida A&M University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Ball State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
LGBTQ+
Oral history
Peter Karsten
University of Pittsburgh
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
International Relations
Legal and Constitutional
Military
Ari Kelman
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Borderlands
Civil War and Reconstruction
David Kennedy
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General and Historiography
Great Depression
Immigration
Matthew Klingle
Bowdoin College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Environment and Natural Resources
General and Historiography
Medicine
Peter J. Kuznick
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Cold War
World War II
Nelson Lichtenstein
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Education
Allan J. Lichtman
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
General and Historiography
Leadership
Mary Ting Yi Lui
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Asian American
Cold War
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Interdisciplinary Theory/Studies
Medicine
Waldo E. Martin Jr.
University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Education
General and Historiography
Danielle L. McGuire
University of Utah; Independent Scholar
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Clyde A. Milner II
Arkansas State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
General and Historiography
Public History and Memory
Andy Mink
National Humanities Center
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Digital history
Family
General and Historiography
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Harvard University; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study