Carlos Ulises Decena, an Associate Professor and Chair of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose interests include critical theory and whose projects combine rigorous […]

Brandyn Heppard is an assistant professor of philosophy at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey & Co-Director of RVCC’s Women’s Center. A PhD candidate at the New School for […]

Barbara Seater has taught for more than 40 years at Raritan Valley Community College in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She twice received Mid-Career Fellowships at Princeton University. […]

Ada McKenzie Thomas is Associate Professor of World Literature at Bloomfield College. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of English at the College of The Bahamas. As a comparatist, she researches […]

Yasemin Besen-Cassino is an Professor of Sociology of Montclair State University and a Book Review Editor of academic journal Gender & Society. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook […]

Samip Mallick is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of SAADA, an innovative community-based digital archive that gives voice to South Asian Americans by documenting, preserving, and sharing community stories. He […]

Nicole Belolan is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American social and cultural history and a museum professional. Currently, she is Public Historian in Residence at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center […]

Matthew Backes is passionate about stringed instruments; he started playing at 15 years old. When he’s not fiddling, singing, or picking mandolin or guitar, Backes teaches American Studies at Rutgers […]

Gary D. Saretzky, archivist, educator, and photographer, has been Monmouth County Archivist since 1994. Saretzky taught history of photography at Mercer County Community College from 1977 to 2012 and coordinated […]

Cathy Bao Bean is a daughter, mother, wife, author, immigrant, and public scholar. Alumna and former board member of the Claremont Graduate University School of the Arts and Humanities, she […]