Until his recent retirement, Gary Gerstle was the Paul Mellon Professor of American History. He is a historian of the twentieth century, with substantial interests in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He received his BA from Brown University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.

Journalist and author Nicholas Lemann began his career as a 17-year-old writer for an alternative weekly newspaper in his native New Orleans and went on to hold editorial and writing positions at The Harvard Crimson, the Washington Monthly, the Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. Lemann was also dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he launched initiatives in digital journalism, executive leadership for news organizations, investigative reporting, coverage of underreported global issues, and more.

Jeff Pooley is Research Associate and Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication. He also directs mediastudies.press, a nonprofit open access publisher in communication and media studies. His teaching and research interests center on the history of communication research, social media and identity, and scholarly communication.

Mira Siegelberg is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research. She is a historian with interests in European and U.S. intellectual history, the history and theory of rights, law and legal thought, and the politics of citizenship and migration. Her research focuses particularly on the intellectual, legal, and institutional formation of modern international order.