global Experts

Vince Rozario

CuratorMiddlebrook Prize Winners

Vince Rozario is an curator focusing on issues of decolonizing the canon, multiple modernities, queer diasporas, and transnational futures.

Jason Pitts, Ph.D.

Director of the Biology of Global Health 4+1 Program | Associate ProfessorBaylor University

Investigates the sensory neuronal basis for behaviors in arthropod disease vectors such as mosquitoes carrying Dengue or Zika viruses.

Jane Landers

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert on digital archives and the history of Colonial Latin America, slavery, early American black history.

Benn R. Konsynski

George S. Craft Professor of Information Systems & Operations ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Morton Schapiro

PresidentNorthwestern University

Named the 16th president of Northwestern University with an extensive background in economics

Peter Christensen

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art HistoryUniversity of Rochester

Peter Christensen's specialization is modern architectural and environmental history of Germany, Central Europe and the Middle East.

José Valentino Ruiz

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Multi-Grammy® and Emmy® award winner and expert in music and global entrepreneurship, creative industries, intellectual property and AI.

Welson Tremura

Professor | DirectorUniversity of Florida

Welson Tremura specializes in musicology-ethnomusicology and is a professor at the School of Music & Center for Latin American Studies.

Keith Mellinger

Professor of Mathematics University of Mary Washington

Dr. Mellinger blends mathematics and music.

Todd Robson

Strategic Communications Consultant

A former journalist and award winning marketer - Todd can provide witty and intelligent perspective on a wide variety of current topics.