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Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

Enid A. Moreira, Florida International University; Daniel M. Bagner, Florida International University, and Shayl Griffith, Florida International University

H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University

Jacob Lederman, University of Michigan Flint

C. Michael White, University of Connecticut

Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Stacy Kline, Drexel University

Jessica D. Ayers, Boise State University and Diego Guevara Beltran, University of Arizona

Evan Clarkson, Utah Valley University

Hatim Sharif, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Amelia B. Finaret, Allegheny College

Jessica Griffin, UMass Chan Medical School

Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

James M. Thomas, University of Mississippi

Julie (Julia) Velásquez Runk, Wake Forest University; Smithsonian Institution; University of Michigan; Chenier Carpio Opua, Indigenous Knowledge, and Doris Cheucarama Membache, Indigenous Knowledge

William Akoto, American University School of International Service

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

Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Institution

Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University

Fiona Doherty, University of Tennessee

Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; United Nations University and John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced

Jen Pierce, Boise State University

Yunyao Li, University of Texas at Arlington

Mkhaimar Abusada, Northwestern University

Kelsey Norman, Rice University and Nicholas R. Micinski, American University School of International Service

Stacy D. VanDeveer, UMass Boston and Firmesk Rahim, UMass Boston

Amy Myers Jaffe, New York University; Tufts University

Qian He, Rowan University; Mahbubur Meenar, Rowan University, and Sean Olcese, Rowan University

Versha Pleasant, University of Michigan

Sunil Kumar, University of Denver

Steve Strauss, Oregon State University

Pooya Tabesh, California State University, Los Angeles

Erik P. Bucy, Texas Tech University and Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, Texas Tech University

Jodyn Platt, University of Michigan and David Kao, University of Colorado Anschutz

Jeffrey Young, Georgia Institute of Technology

Brennan Berg, University of Mississippi

Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State University and Rachel Noorda, Portland State University

Lucy McGowan, Wake Forest University

Aliasger K. Salem, University of Iowa