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Ann Sheehan, Michigan State University

Sunny Linnebur, University of Colorado Anschutz

Leo S. Lo, University of Virginia

Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University; University of New England

J. Toby Reiner, Dickinson College

Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University

Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, The Ohio State University

Jeremiah Favara, Gonzaga University

John W. Diamond, Rice University

Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver

Mahad D. Darar, Colorado State University

Reed Berger-Fleishman, University of Illinois Chicago

Sydney Giacalone, University of Virginia

Catherine Armbruster, Carnegie Mellon University

Emily Greene-Colozzi, UMass Lowell

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder; Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, and John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado Boulder

Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

Steven Paton, Smithsonian Institution

Kaleigh Yost, Penn State

Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa

Briana Swette, Boise State University and Kelly Hopping, Boise State University

Regina Smyth, Indiana University

Laura Blume, University of Nevada, Reno

Jeongmin Park, Penn State and Alexis R. Santos, Penn State

Guilherme Casarões, Florida International University

Ian McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Thomas Fauchez, American University

Jesse Liu, New York University

Andrew Bubak, University of Colorado Anschutz

Pawan Jain, University of Michigan Flint

Aylin Yener, The Ohio State University

Mohamed Akrout, University of Tennessee

Jeffrey C. Dixon, College of the Holy Cross

Clare Whitton, University of Oxford

Pierce Salguero, Penn State

Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University; Courtney DeRoche, The Ohio State University, and Yun-Han Weng, The Ohio State University

Bernadette A. Lear, Penn State