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Jacob Ware, Georgetown University

Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University

Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University and D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University

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Heather Hendershot, Northwestern University

Richard Marcantonio, University of Notre Dame

Jen Pierce, Boise State University

Amy S. Badura-Brack, Creighton University

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Chetan Jaiswal, Quinnipiac University

Janice Mak, Arizona State University

João Marinotti, Indiana University

Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

Beth Ann Malow, Vanderbilt University

Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School

Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University

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Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame

Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

John A. Tures, LaGrange College

Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Institution

Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University

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Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University

Zoltan Nagy, Eindhoven University of Technology

Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder

Kelli Frias, American University and Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University

Tara Kolar Bryan, University of Tennessee

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Adam Stanaland, University of Richmond

Lindsay Barnhart, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic

Tim Nelin, University of Pennsylvania

Shreya Kapila, Penn State

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

Jeffrey Young, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dipesh Navsaria, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lori DiPrete Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Soyeon Shim, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

Karen Barrett, University of California, San Francisco

Samantha Adams, University of Michigan

Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

Christine Kirchhoff, Penn State