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John Eric Goff, Purdue University

Hermes Florez, Medical University of South Carolina and Zeina Hannoush, University of Miami

Jeffrey Anvari-Clark, University of North Dakota

S. Marek Muller, Texas State University and David Rooney, University of Wyoming

Katelyn Frey, Kent State University

Anthony Wanis-St John, American University and Federico Manfredi Firmian, American University

F. Dermmillah Obare, UMass Boston

Henrique B. Braz, Instituto Butantan; Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Instituto Butantan, and Serena Najara Migliore, Instituto Butantan

Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University

Stefani Langehennig, University of Denver

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

Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

Austin Sarat, Amherst College

Philip Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University

Benjamin Leff, American 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

Zoltan Nagy, Eindhoven University of Technology

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

Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University

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

Jonathan S. Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and George A. Mocsary, University of Wyoming; Institute for Humane Studies

Elizabeth Dowdell, Villanova University

Steven Lautzenheiser, University of Tennessee

James Tuttle, University of Montana