war Experts

Tristan Sauer

New Media Artist and CuratorMiddlebrook Prize Winners

Tristan Sauer is a new media artist and curator interested in physical computing, wearable technology, and sculpture.

Jeffrey P. Cohen, Ph.D.

Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate and ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut

Jeffrey P. Cohen is an expert on transit-oriented development and housing, factors impacting real estate values, and property taxation

Adam Diehl

Lecturer of EnglishAugusta University

Professor Diehl is an expert in hip-hop culture, lyrical analysis, Rap as a form of literature and specifically the works of Kendrick Lamar.

Robin Miskolcze

Professor of EnglishLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Elizabeth McRae

Associate ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Elizabeth McRae’s teaching and research interests include the intersection of race, gender and politics in America and in the modern South.

Tetyana Balyuk

Assistant Professor of FinanceEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor Emerita of EnglishUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Gretchen Gerzina is a specialist on the novel and biography, focusing on Black British studies, Victorian studies and mixed race studies..

Tia Noelle Pratt, PhD

Special Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Mission Engagement and Strategic Initiatives; Assistant Professor of SociologyVillanova University

Tia Noelle Pratt, PhD, researches Catholicism in the U.S. with emphasis on systemic racism and African American Catholics.

Paolo Pedercini

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Paolo Pedercini's artistic practice deals with the relationship between electronic entertainment and ideology.

Dr Joseph Yannielli

Lecturer, HistoryAston University

Dr Yannielli’s main fields of interest are slavery and abolition, with a special focus on America during the nineteenth century.