Contributors

Loren Collins is a proud graduate of the undergraduate history program at Humboldt State University in California. He has seen the value of the foundation it provided in his later endeavors: earning his MA in sociology and working to build career curricula for a variety of disciplines and programs at Humboldt State.

John Fea is professor of history and chair of the history department at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Sarah Fenton is the editor of 30-Second New York and a contributing editor at the AHA.

Anne Hyde is professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. She served on the AHA Council and Teaching Division, and is faculty director of the AHA’s Tuning the History Discipline project.

Johann N. Neem is Professor of History at Western Washington University. He is author of Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017) and Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts(2008). His new book is What’s the Point of College? (2019).

Sarah Olzawski is an academic counselor at the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a bachelor of arts with distinction in history and a master of library and information studies from the University of Oklahoma.

Claire Potter is professor of history and executive editor of Public Seminar at the New School in New York City. She is co-editor of Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past (2018).

John Rowe is chairman emeritus of Exelon Corporation, a former chairman of the Chicago History Museum and the Field Museum, and chairman of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the visiting committee of the Oriental Institute. He has also chaired the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Sarah Shurts is associate professor of history at Bergen Community College in New Jersey and the author of Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000 (2017). She has worked with the AHA as a member of the Tuning the History Discipline project, the James Harvey Robinson Prize Committee, and the 2020 Program Committee, and is also co-editor of the Journal of the Western Society for French History.

Paul B. Sturtevant is a medievalist, social scientist, and public historian. He received a PhD in medieval studies from the University of Leeds and is audience research specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as editor in chief of The Public Medievalist (http://www. publicmedievalist.com).

Frank Valadez is the director of the Division for Public Education at the American Bar Association. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in American history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.