Sarah Horowitz is an associate professor of history and core faculty in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington and Lee University, teaching classes on crime and scandal in the nineteenth century, gender in modern Europe, and the history of Parisian life. She has a PhD in modern European history from UC Berkeley, and her book Friendship and Politics in Postrevolutionary France was published by Penn State University Press in 2013. She has been published in The Washington Post, Nursing Clio, and many academic journals.

A neuroscientist at Stanford University, Patrick House has contributed to The New Yorker and Slate. His research has been featured in the New York Times, on the podcast Radiolab, and in one of the most popular Atlantic articles of all time.

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian specialising in Modern German history. Her debut book Blood and Iron has been well-received by critics and academics alike. She was born in (East) Germany and read history at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her essays have featured in History Today and BBC History Extra. Katja also writes for The Spectator, The Washington Post, UnHerd, Die Welt and other newspapers on current political affairs in Germany and Europe. She hosts the podcast Tommies and Jerries on British-German relations with Oliver Moody, the Times' Berlin correspondent. Katja is based in Sussex, UK.

Quanyu Huang is director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program, an associate professor at Miami University of Ohio and the former director of the Confucius Institute. He is a specialist in Sino-American cultural and the author of The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids (Prometheus).

Pacifique, who won a Whiting Award, grew up in war-torn Burundi and came to the US as a high school student.  He lives in Brooklyn NY.

Perrin Ireland (@experrinment) has built an art practice inside scientific and policy institutions.

A former visual storyteller for the Natural Resources Defense Council (where she produced watercolor animated videos about climate change, oceans, and endangered animals), Perrin’s artwork has graced outlets like Discover Magazine, Nature Magazine, Scientific American, Damn Joan Magazine, Physics World, The Rumpus, among others.

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Lawrence served as one of four official White House photographers during the Obama administration. He’s worked at The Associated Press and The Virginian-Pilot, and his work has been published in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets.

Jeffrey H. Jackson is J.J. McComb Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (Duke University Press, 2003).

Alexandra Jacobs is a critic and features writer at the New York Times. Still Here, her biography of the late actress Elaine Stritch, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2019.

Saru Jayaraman is the President and Co-Founder of One Fair Wage (OFW), a national organization, campaign and coalition fighting for a full, fair minimum wage for every person who works in America, with tips being a supplement on top of wages rather than the wage itself, and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee History Professor Emeritus Glen Jeansonne has published 15 books, many of them historical biographies. He has also published more than 50 articles and more than 170 book reviews and won 3 teaching awards. His book Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate, won the Wisconsin Writer's Award, the Gustavus Meyers Award for research related to bigotry, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His work deals with 20th century American political history and Jeansonne frequently performs guest interviews for the media on historical and current events.

Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist known for his eloquent oratory style as well as his efforts to bridge cultural and religious divides. A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies. Jebara has lectured to diverse audiences around the world; briefed senior policy makers; and published in prominent newspapers and magazines. A respected voice in Islamic scholarship, Jebara advocates for positive social change.

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Scott C. Johnson is a senior writer and investigative journalist at The Hollywood Reporter. He was a Newsweek foreign correspondent, providing war reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other fronts in the Middle East, and is the author of the National Book Award longlisted The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, A Son, and the CIA.

John J. Johnston is an Egyptologist, Classicist and cultural historian. His introductory essay for the anthology Unearthed (Jurassic London), addressing the cultural history of the mummy in literature and film, was shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Association Award 2014 in the non-fiction category. John lectures extensively throughout the UK at institutions such as The British Museum, the British Film Institute and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and, in addition to serving on the Editorial Board of Egyptian Archaeology, he has contributed articles to numerous books and journals, frequently on the reception of the ancient world in modern culture and the history of Egyptology. He was formerly vice chair of the Egypt Exploration Society and is working on his first book.

Joanna Jolly is a BBC South Asia Editor and an award-winning documentary film maker.

Bruce Jones is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and a senior fellow in the Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings. He served in the United Nations' operation in Kosovo, was special assistant to the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, and is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Elise Jordan is a former State Department employee and speechwriter turned print journalist and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her writing has been published in TIME, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Daily Beast, Marie Claire, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal.

Menachem Kaiser is the author of the memoir Plunder: Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Plunder was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of the Year and a Best Read of 2021 by the Christian Science Monitor. In its rave review, the daily New York Times called the book “a twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story.” The Christian Science Monitor hailed it as “a fascinating and thought-provoking read.” As the New York Times Book Review described Plunder, “This is weird, complicated territory — by which I mean it’s fantastic.” Kaiser won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Plunder.

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Kaiser holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Graduate Fellowship from the Wexner Foundation, an organization that fosters Jewish leadership across all disciplines. Kaiser’s work has appeared in TheWall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, New York magazine, and Tablet Magazine. His new book is forthcoming from HarperCollins.

Amos Kamil is a screenwriter, playwright, and brand strategist who graduated from Horace Mann in 1982. He is the author, with Sean Elder, of Great is the Truth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a journalistic investigation into the sex scandals at Horace Mann based on his article in The New York Times Magazine.

A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2007, Kashner is the author of several books. His book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and The Marriage of the Century, with Nancy Schoenberger was a New York Times Bestseller and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.

Lucy Kaylin is the editor-in-chief of O, the Oprah Magazine. She has previously worked as a fact-checker at Vogue, a writer and Features Editor at GQ, and an Executive editor at Marie Claire. Kaylin is the author of two books, For the Love of God, and The Perfect Stranger. She also appeared in Marie Claire’s reality TV show, Running in Heels.

International affairs writer at Slate, Keating is also a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy and a foreign policy analyst.

Dr. Joanna Kempner, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, writes, researches, and teaches at the intersections of science, medicine, and inequality. Kempner is internationally known for her research on overlooked problems in health and illness, giving voice to those without power and challenging how medicine talks about, understands, and makes policies for those it serves. As the premier expert on the social impact of headache diseases, she is a sought-after speaker and is often featured in policy debates and media discussions about pain. Her research has been extensively covered by major national media outlets, such as NPR, TheWashington Post, Associated Press, Science, the Guardian, and ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. She was featured alongside Joan Didion and Siri Hustvedt in the award-winning 2017 documentary Out of My Head.

Jason Kendall was a professional baseball catcher in the MLB for 15 years. He is the author, with sportswriter Lee Judge, of Throwback: A Big League Catcher Tells How the Game is Really Played (St. Martin’s Press).

A lawyer and human rights activist, Kennedy is the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council, and serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights First, Inter-Press Service, and the United States Institute for Peace. Being Catholic Now was a New York Times Bestseller.

Joe Keohane is an American journalist. He has worked for or contributed to such esteemed publications as Esquire, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. A writer and a top editor, he has covered everything from politics, to business, to technology and social science around the world, and his work has been anthologized in several textbooks. He currently works as Executive Editor of Medium.com. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Ro Khanna is a US Congressman representing California's 17th Congressional District. A former visiting lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Economics, Khanna has worked with high-technology companies for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He formerly served as the Obama Administration’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 2009-2011.

Sulaiman Khatib is a peace activist and a co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolent movement in Israel and Palestine. He has been called “the savior of Palestine” and the “Palestinian Yitzhak Rabin.”

Catherine Kim is at work on a collection of short stories based on the history of treatment for diseases developed by physicians over two centuries, told from the perspective of the women, children, and families who, knowingly or not, served as experimental subjects for the cures. She is also writing a historical novel based on the 1865 trial of Mary Harris, the nineteen-year daughter of poor Irish immigrants, who shot her lover. In a trial that was a national sensation, her attorneys argued her innocence with a novel defense, Paroxysmal Moral Insanity: that is, she was menstruating.

Catherine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecoloy. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Erin Kimmerle currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Erin is also the Executive Director for the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science.

Neil King Jr. served as chief diplomatic correspondent, senior political reporter and global economics editor over 20 years at The Wall Street Journal. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic and other publications. A native of Colorado, he lives now in Washington DC.

Paul Kix is the author of The Saboteur (Harper, 2017) and is an editor and writer in the features unit of ESPN. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, GQ and other national publications.

A former editor at The New Yorker, Vogue, and Radar, Knutsen is the executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine.

A contributing editor at Marie Claire, Kohen has written for New York, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun.

Anna Koska is a published freelance illustrator of some 25 years, specialising in fruit, vegetables and the natural world, and to date has illustrated in excess of 100 books. As well as book illustration, Anna regularly receives commissions from chefs, authors and restauranteurs for food and botanical art. Anna works in watercolour, pen & ink, oils and, most recently, egg tempera. Her methods may vary but the joy of her artwork is constant; each piece she creates is a celebration of the fruit, vegetable, animal or plant she has captured with her inimitable flare, which has secured her place as one of the UK’s leading natural history illustrators.

A former professor of history at Carthage College, Kuhn has written extensively about the British monarchy and Victorian high politics.

Col. Ray “Frenchy” L’Heureux served as a pilot for four U.S. Presidents—George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—and the author, with Lee Kelley, of Inside Marine One: Four U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World’s Most Amazing Helicopter (St. Martin’s Press).

Ruby Lal is an award-winning historian of India and professor of South Asian history at Emory University. Her works restore erased female figures and their histories, particularly from the Mughal Empire. She is the author of four critically acclaimed books and numerous essays and literary pieces in the USA and India. Her most recent book, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan, has been lauded by the BBC, The Hindu, Vogue India, The Wall Street Journal, and American Kahani, among others. Her previous book Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2019. In Spring 2025, she will publish Tiger-Slayer, an illustrated remix of Empress for young adults. Lal is the recipient of numerous fellowships, among them from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, and as Public Humanities Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Learn more at www.rubylal.com

Deb Miller Landau is a freelance journalist whose investigative reporting has been anthologized in Harper Perennial's Best American Crime Writing.  Her work on the 1987 murder of Lita McClinton has been cited by news stories and TV documentaries, including America's Most Wanted, Dateline, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice, FBI: Criminal Pursuit and, most recently, Oxygen Network's 2022 Real Murders of Atlanta.

Katherine Sharp Landdeck is Associate Professor of History at Texas Women's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings (Crown). Landdeck is a pilot and the nation's foremost expert on the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women ever to fly for the US Military.

Mary M. Lane (b. 1987) is a nonfiction writer and journalist specializing in Western art, Western European history, and anti-Semitism. Lane received one of five Fulbright Journalism Scholarships at 22 years old, gained international recognition as the chief European art reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and published numerous exclusive Page One articles on the art trove of Hildebrand Gurlitt. Since leaving the Journal, Lane has been a European art contributor for the New York Times. She splits her time between Berlin and Virginia.

Carrie Lane is a professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, which won the 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2012 Book Prize of the Society for Economic Anthropology.

Amy Larocca is the Fashion Editor-at-Large at New York Magazine, where she has worked in a variety of roles since 2000. She edits the magazine’s two annual fashion issues, writes on fashion and other subjects, and is working on a book about the wellness movement to be published in 2020.

Regents professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, Lauretta is also the principal investigator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Visiting professor at both the University of California and Georgetown University, John Lawrence is the former longtime Chief of Staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Politico, among other publications.

Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957; his pre­vious books include Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan and To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, both Washington Post Best Books of the Year. He was a founding editor of the Harvard/MIT journal International Security and is a cofounder of the National Museum of the United States Army.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and The Meat Racket.

After a career in law and academia, Levin spent the last twenty years working with governments and institutions, focused on economic development and political reform. Over the past ten years, he’s run the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, through which he’s helped monarchies democratize their political foundations and state and non-state actors in armed conflict zones. His first book, Nothing But A Circus, was published in the UK, Germany, Russia, and Japan.

A former editor at both Wired and Billboard, Levine has also written for the New York Times, Fortune, Business 2.0, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.

Adam Valen Levinson is a multimedia backpack journalist and travel writer whose work focuses on human stories in conflict areas. His work has appeared in numerous outlets, including VICE, the Paris Review, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz. He is currently an affiliate of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. and a Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and the author of many acclaimed books on U.S. political history, including White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FDR and the Jews (with Richard Breitman), and the National Bestseller, The Case for Impeachment. He is regularly sought out by the media for his authoritative views on voting and elections.

Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, specialising in the art history of tattoos. He has given invited lectures at venues including the V&A, the National Museum of Scotland, and the Museum of London, and has published academic papers in venues including the Sculpture Journal, and contributed forewords for over a dozen popular books on tattooing. He has contributed articles to the Royal Academy Magazine, History Today, The Guardian and others, and appeared on broadcast media across the globe. His first monograph, on the history of Western tattooing, is currently in production. His latest major exhibition, 'British Tattoo Art Revealed', began at the National Maritime Museum Falmouth in March 2017 and is currently on tour nationwide through 2021. Matt also serves as the presenter of the landmark television series "Art of Museums" / 'Magie des Grands Musées' / 'Magie der Museen', airing across Europe and beyond in late 2018 and early 2019.

Ernesto Londoño is a journalist for The New York Times. He joined the newspaper in 2014 as a member of the editorial board and served as Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to 2022. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the Pentagon. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.

Emily Lordi is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a writer-at-large for the New York Times’s T Magazine. She has published three acclaimed books on Black artistry, with Rutgers University Press, Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ series, and Duke University Press, and her writing as appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Andrew Lycett is a biographer, author and broadcaster. He also writes and reviews for a large number of newspapers and magazines. Lycett lectures and speaks at schools, universities and literary festivals. He recently finished a stint on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Brian MacQuarrie is an award-winning journalist. His first book, The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption, about the 1997 murder and abduction of ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley, has been called a "fascinating story of loss, profound anger, pain, and the difficult, soul-searching aftermath of trauma" (The Boston Globe) and "a first-rate combination of true crime and social history" (Kirkus).

Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians called the Yora. MacQuarrie currently divides his time between the U.S. and Peru and is directing a 3D IMAX film. He is represented in association with Lucas Alexander Whitley in the UK.

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