Alexander Aviña is an associate professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He previously taught at Florida State University. His book, Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014), was awarded the Maria Elena Martínez Book Prize in Mexican History for 2015 by the Conference on Latin American History. He has also published articles in the Bulletin of Latin American Research, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. 

Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He has written widely on war crimes, interethnic relations, and genocide. Recent books, published in multiple languages, include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award; Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023), named Choice 2024 Outstanding Academic Title; and Israel: What Went Wrong? (2026). Bartov’s essays and commentaries have been widely featured in national and international magazines and media outlets. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published in 2023 in the United States and Israel.

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and a specialist in the Middle East and South Asia.   His public-facing website is informed Comment (juancole.com).

Greg Grandin is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and the author of a number of books, including America, América: A New History of the New World, The End of the Myth, which won a Pulitzer Prize, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History, Fordlandia, Empire’s Workshop. Kissinger’s Shadow, The Blood of Guatemala, and The Last Colonial Massacre. 

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.  His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; and Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life (forthcoming 2027).  His essays have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, New York Review of Books, Hammer & Hope, Black Scholar, Journal of American History; and The Boston Review, for which he is a contributing editor.

Pat Manning, Mellon Professor of World History (emeritus) at the University of Pittsburgh and long-term RHR and HPAD member, was AHA president (2016) and VP for teaching (2004-06). He directed World History Centers at Pitt and previously at Northeastern. He researches group behavior, languages, and institutions in African and world history. 

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where she is chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of Rutgers AAUP AFT. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books in March 2022. In October 2010, Murch published Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize in December 2011.

Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies and Professor Emerita of History, Columbia University.  She is author of Impossible Subjects, Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004); The Lucky Ones, One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010); The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021); coeditor of Corky Lee’s Asian America, Fifty Years of Photographic Justice (2024); and a senior editor of International Labor and Working Class History. She has written commentary on immigration history and policy for the NY Times, NY Review of Books, The Atlantic, among others. She is a former labor organizer and educator. 

Joan W. Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.*. Her most recent books are On the Judgment of History and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom.  She is a long-term member and former chair of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.  

Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016). Her forthcoming book, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is the Editor of Journal of Palestine Studies, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB, editorial board member of the American Historical Review, co-editor of Stanford’s Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures, and co-editor of Jadaliyya. 

Gabriel Winant teaches history at the University of Chicago, where he is president of the campus chapter of AAUP. He previously served on the executive committee of AAUP-AFT Local 6741, as a volunteer organizer with the Emergence Workplace Organizing Committee, and as an organizer and elected officer in UNITE HERE.