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Stephen Collins, Kennesaw State University

David Edward DeMatthews, The University of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Smullin Dawson, Allegheny College

Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University

Mark Louie Ramos, Penn State

Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

Justin Vaughn, Coastal Carolina University

Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University

Lee Reiners, Duke University

Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University

Menika Dirkson, Morgan State University

Sarah E. Patterson, University of Michigan

Robert Glover, University of Maine

Mahad D. Darar, Colorado State University

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder; Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, and John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado Boulder

Chris Vagasky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles

Steven Paton, Smithsonian Institution

Kaleigh Yost, Penn State

Saif Tahir, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Amira Jadoon, Clemson University

Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Charles Edward Gehrke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Andre Pagliarini, Louisiana State University

Jason Kostrna, Florida International University

Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee

Ian McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Thomas Fauchez, American University

Chanh Kieu, Indiana University

Morgan Shipley, Michigan State University

Leo S. Lo, University of Virginia

Peter J. Marshall, Temple University

Jason Bruck, Stephen F. Austin State University

Laura Coco, San Diego State University

Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Daniel LaChance, Emory University and Paul Kaplan, San Diego State University