Elizabeth Andrews Bond is associate professor of history at Ohio State. Her book The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France investigated the formation of public opinion via thousands of letters written to newspapers. Her current book project is a microhistory that explores women’s participation in print and politics in the 18th century through the life of Louise-Félicité de Kéralio.
Pranav Jani is associate professor of English at Ohio State. He is the author of Decentering Rushdie (2010) and specializes in postcolonial and ethnic studies. He is affiliated with the Ohio State’s Center for Ethnic Studies, the South Asian Studies Initiative, and several departments including African American and African Studies. Currently a board member of The Ohio State University Chapter of American Association of University Professors and member of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Ohio State, Pranav has many years of experience as a regional social justice organizer. See pranavjani.com for more on his scholarly and public-facing work.
Margaret Ellen Newell is distinguished scholar and College of Arts and Sciences distinguished professor of history. She is the author of many works on early American social and economic history, including From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. Her most recent book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, won the 2016 James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations in the US, and the 2016 Peter Gomes Memorial Book Prize for nonfiction. Presently, she is principal investigator for a multiyear Mellon-funded research project on African American and Native American citizenship and civic engagement.
Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes chair in national security studies at Ohio State. He is an expert on US foreign relations and political history, with a focus on ideas and ideologies. Nichols is a frequent public commentator and is the author or editor of six books, including Promise and Peril, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations. Nichols is faculty chair of Ohio State’s America at 250 initiative.
Sahar Tarighi is a Kurdish interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, Ohio. Working across ceramics, sculpture, installation, video, and social practice, her work investigates the interwoven relationships between body, land, and memory within Kurdish histories shaped by displacement, cultural erasure, and the violence of borders. Treating materials as active repositories, she uses clay, textiles, yarn, and found objects to honor women’s labor, Kurdish feminism, and ancestral mythologies. Grounded in decolonial and postcolonial inquiry, her practice engages Kurdish cultural memory as a site of ongoing wound and repair. Tarighi is currently a post-MFA scholar in the Department of Art at Ohio State.
Winston C. Thompson holds the William H. and Laceryjette V. Casto professorship in interprofessional education at Ohio State, where he is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy (by courtesy). He is also the director of Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values.