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Usha Rackliffe

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

Deborah O'Dell

Professor of BiologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. O'Dell performs research into how bees use magnetic fields to orient themselves.

Julie Byrne

Professor and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic StudiesHofstra University

The Professor and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies at Hofstra University

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.

Mark Lukasiewicz

Dean, The Lawrence Herbert School of CommunicationHofstra University

Dean Lukasiewicz is a veteran producer, journalist, and media executive. Before joining Hofstra, he was SVP of specials at NBC News.

Richard Fox

Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science (On Leave)Loyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Marc Gallicchio, PhD

Professor and Mary M. Birle Chair in American History | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Marc Gallicchio, PhD, is an expert on World War II, U.S. foreign relations, East Asia, modern military history and modern U.S. history.

Colin Rafferty

Associate ProfessorUniversity 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.

Peter B. James, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorBaylor University

Specialties are planetary geophysics and finite element modeling