washington Experts

Usha Rackliffe

Professor in the Practice of Accounting; Academic Director for Master in ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Jack Downey

John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Professor of Religion and ClassicsUniversity of Rochester

Downey studies self-immolation as reistance, forms of protest, Roman Catholicism

Robert Taylor, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of HistoryFlorida Tech

Dr. Taylor's research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century America, the American South, U.S. military history, and 20th-century Europe.

Andy Horowitz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Connecticut State HistorianUniversity of Connecticut

Dr. Horowitz is a public historian, scholar of the modern United States, and Connecticut's State Historian.

Colin T. Rafferty

Professor of EnglishUniversity of Mary Washington

His research has taken him to the mountains of central Vietnam, the concentration camps of WWII, and the house of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Whitney Martinko, PhD

Associate Professor of History; Director, Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Whitney Martinko, PhD, is an expert on public history, historic preservation and the early United States (1776–1860).

Peter B. James, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorBaylor University

Specialties are planetary geophysics and finite element modeling

Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD

Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Sister Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, works to find a new unity and synthesis in science and religion.

David Barrett, PhD

Professor of Political Science | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

David Barrett, PhD, is a presidential historian and leading expert on the CIA's relationship with presidents and Congress.

Thomas Ksiazek, PhD

Professor and Department Chair, Communication | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Thomas Ksiazek, PhD, researches the media industry's constant evolution to satisfy the needs of its audience.