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Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College

Austin Sarat, Amherst College

Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University

Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago

Randolph A Robinson II, University of Illinois Chicago

Elizabeth Schmidt, UMass Amherst

Patricia Edwards, Michigan State University

Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles

Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

Susan Appe, University at Albany, State University of New York

Manjot Kaur Sidhu, University of Maine

Kenneth Michael White, Kennesaw State University

Jonathan Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University

John Hayes, Augusta University

Mona Hanna, Michigan State University

Tonya Cross Hansel, University of Texas at Arlington

Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University

Mihhail Berezovski, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Alex Chaparro, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Asma Uddin, Michigan State University; Institute for Humane Studies

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

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

Kaleigh Yost, Penn State

Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa

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

Umesh Haritashya, University of Dayton

Robert Muggah, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University

Laura Alfers, Rhodes University; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Martha Alter Chen, Harvard Kennedy School, and Mike Rogan, Rhodes University

Kent Jones, Babson College

Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

Stephanie Szarmach, Smithsonian Institution

Aishwarya Sriram, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Carol Miles, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Ronald Miles, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Sara Aghazadeh, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Kimberly Baker, Clemson University

Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University

Mohamed Akrout, University of Tennessee

Jeffrey C. Dixon, College of the Holy Cross

Anna Liljedahl, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ingmar Nitze, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

Callie Maddox, Miami University

Matthew Palczynski, Temple University

Pardis Mahdavi, University of California, Berkeley

Deana L. Weibel, Grand Valley State University