Humanities Experts

Andrew Hogan

Lecturer of Classics and ArchaeologyLoyola Marymount University

Edda L. Fields-Black

Professor of History and Director of The Humanities CenterCarnegie Mellon University

Dr. Fields-Black is a specialist in the trans-national of West African farmers and enslaved laborers on rice plantations.

Erin Weed

FounderGirls Fight Back!

Women's Safety + Empowerment Speaker

Christopher Philips

Professor and Department Head, HistoryCarnegie Mellon University

Christopher Phillips' research focuses on how statistics, mathematics, and AI have transformed the way people understand the world.

Virginia Parks

Professor of Urban Planning and Public PolicyUC Irvine

Virginia Parks, PhD, is a geographer and urban planner specializing in the study of urban inequality.

John M. Heffron, PhD

Director of the MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change, Professor of Educational History and CultureSoka University

Professor Heffron is a development scholar whose focus is the cultural and intellectual history of education nationally and transnationally

Emily D. Crosby

Associate Professor of CommunicationUniversity of Mary Washington

Emily Deering Crosby is a rhetorical critic of popular culture with research concentrations in feminist criticism.

Alexandra Neel

Associate Professor of English and Director of HumanitiesLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Peter Koch, PhD

Assistant Professor of PhilosophyVillanova University

Peter Koch, PhD, is an expert in philosophical issues of biomedical and clinical ethics related to patient well-being, harm and disease.

Dr Islam Issa

Reader in Literature and HistoryBirmingham City University

His work has focused primarily on the modern-day reception of Renaissance and Early Modern English literature in global contexts.