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Charles Taylor, PhD

John A. Murphy Endowed Chair Professor of Marketing; Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights | Villanova School of BusinessVillanova University

Charles "Ray" Taylor, PhD, is a go-to source on advertising, international marketing, branding and consumer behavior.

Elliott Silverstein

Director, Government Relations, InsuranceCAA Club Group

Elliott manages and executes key elements of CAA’s provincial advocacy role, and overseeing municipal advocacy efforts.

Paul Kramer

Associate Professor of HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert in modern U. S. history, with an emphasis on transnational histories, American social thought and the politics of inequality.

Nikolay Osadchiy

Associate Professor of Information Systems & Operations ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

James Hudnut-Beumler

Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert in the history of religion in the American South.

Ann Searight Christiano

Director | Clinical ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Ann Christiano is a leading expert in public interest communications.

Carlos Moffat

Associate Professor, School of Marine Science and PolicyUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Moffat specializes in the dynamics of the coastal ocean in Antarctica, and how this region responds and contributes to climate change.

Joel Paul

Albert Abramson '54 Professor of LawUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: paulj@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4638 / Office 312-200

Joni Hersch

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and EconomicsVanderbilt University

Expert in employment discrimination, focusing particularly on women, minorities and immigrants.

Shan-Lu Liu

Professor I Department of Veterinary BiosciencesThe Ohio State University

Professor Liu studies virus-host interactions, in particular how RNA viruses enter host cells and cause pathogenesis in humans and animals.