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Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University

Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School

Laura Russo, University of Tennessee

Risa Cromer, Purdue University

Gabriel E. Hales, Michigan State University

Tana Carson, Florida International University and Tania Santiago Perez, Florida International University

Jonathan Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University

Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

Melinda Haas, University of Pittsburgh

Amanda Roome, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Aaron Walayat, University of Dayton

Thomas Adam, University of Arkansas

Donovan Fifield, University of South Carolina

Elizabeth Canales, Mississippi State University

Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University; Alex de Waal, Tufts University; Luka Kuol, University of Juba; Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University, and Peter Hailey, Tufts University

Morgan Marietta, University of Tennessee

Manuel A. Gómez, Florida International University

Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and Alexis Montambault-Trudelle, Université Laval

Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame

Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

John A. Tures, LaGrange College

Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University

David Mislin, Temple University

Weizhi Deng, University of Iowa; Jun Wang, University of Iowa, and Meng Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Brian Bossak, College of Charleston

Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University of California, Merced

Dillon Amaya, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph, University of Connecticut

Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky

Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Zuania Colón-Piñeiro, University of Florida; Ana V. Longo, University of Florida; Miguel A. Acevedo, University of Florida, and Nich W. Martin, University of Florida

Jenny Whilde, University of Florida

Guy German, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University and Ana K. Spalding, Smithsonian Institution

Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

Nan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ross Channing Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Michael Helbing, Penn State

Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University; Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland, and Tiffany D. Meadows, University of Virginia

Prachi Sanghavi, University of Chicago and Cal Chengqi Fang, University of Chicago