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Nadema Agard
As the Director of Red Earth Studio Consulting/Productions, Nadema Agard (Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan) is an artist, illustrator, author, scholar, curator, speaker, museum professional and consultant in Repatriation and Multicultural/Native American arts and cultures. With a B.S. degree in Art Education from New York University, and an M.A. degree in Arts and Education from Teacher's College, Columbia University, she is a former Museum Professional of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
- Warrior Mother Spirit as Lady Liberty: A Native American Perspective

Sherrie Baver
Sherrie Baver teaches Political Science and Latin American Studies at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work focuses on the Hispanic Caribbean and its mainland Diasporas. Along with many articles, she has authored The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico (1993); co-edited Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition (1996); and co-edited Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (2005).
- Oscar Wao and the Latino Immigrant Experience

Hallie Bond
Hallie E. Bond has written extensively on regional history and material culture since joining the Adirondack Museum in 1983. Her books include Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks (1995) and "A Paradise for Boys and Girls:" Children's Camps in the Adirondacks (2005). Ms. Bond has a B.A. in History (University of Colorado), an M.A. in Medieval Studies (University of York) and an M.A. in American History with a Certificate in Museum Studies (University of Delaware).
- Perspectives on Rural Life: Poverty and Plenty
- Whose Land is it, Anyway?

David Carlyon
David Carlyon is a writer and independent scholar. He has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has written about his stint as a clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He has been an Equity actor and playwright, graduated from the University of Michigan, served as a military policeman in the Army, then graduated from Berkeley Law. His award-winning "Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man Youv'e Never Heard Of," is a biography and cultural history of 19th-century America.
- The Gettysburg Address Challenges America

Maurice Charney
Maurice Charney is Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Rutgers University. He has published twenty-four books, mostly on Shakespeare, comedy, and modern drama. His book, Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare was published in 2010 from Columbia University Press, with whom he has also published All of Shakespeare and Love and Lust in Shakespeare. Maurice was President of the Shakespeare Association of America (1987-88) and was awarded the medal of the city of Tours in France (1989).
- Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

James Coll
James L. Coll is a detective in the New York City Police Department. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Nassau Community College. Mr. Coll received his M.A. from Hunter College, where he wrote his thesis on NYPD history. He has written numerous articles on police- and history-related issues for Newsday, NY Daily News and The New York Sun, among other publications.
- Clear and Present Danger: Free Speech and the Constitution
- We the People: Using the Preamble to Understand the Constitution

Theresa Edwards
Theresa Senato Edward's first book of poetry, Voices Through Skin, will be published in June, 2011, by Sibling Rivalry Press. Her second book in production, Painting Czeslawa Kwoka ~ Honoring Children of the Holocaust, is a collaboration with Lori Schreiner. Work from this can be found online at AdmitTwo, Autumn Sky Poetry, elimae, and Trickhouse. The title piece, "Painting Czeslawa Kwoka", won the Tacenda Literary Award for Best Collaboration 2007. Theresa teaches literature and tutors writing at Marist College, is the founder of Holly Rose Review, and blogs at TACSE creations: www.tacse.blogspot.com.
- Brotherhood and Equality: Important Values in America

Firth Fabend
Firth Haring Fabend is an independent historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Her fields are New Netherland studies, the Dutch Colonial experience in the eighteenth century, and the Dutch in New York and New Jersey in the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on family life and the Reformed Dutch Church. Firth is a Fellow of both the New Netherland Project and The Holland Society of New York.
- What Is an American?

Jo-Ann Graham
Jo-Ann Graham earned a Ph.D. from New York University. She was a professor at The City University of New York, where she was a department chairperson and head of humanities. Dr. Graham has served on the board of the Hammond Museum. She has also served with the Cinque Art Gallery, founded by Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis. The founding mission of the Cinque Gallery was to establish a not-for-profit institution that would be dedicated to enhancing growth opportunities for Black artists, to provide an exhibition space for the fine arts created by African American artists, and to establish an educational venue for the public.
- The Black Migration: Agent of Change

Laurence Hauptman
Laurence M. Hauptman is a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. He taught Native American and Civil War history at the college level for 40 years. Hauptman is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 17 books on the Iroquois and other Native Americans. He has testified as an expert witness before committees of both houses of Congress and in the federal courts and has served as a historical consultant for the the Cayugas, the Mashantucket Pequots, the Senecas, and the Wisconsin Oneidas. Professor Hauptman has been honored by the New York State Board of Regents, the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and, more recently, by Monhonk Consulations for his writings about Native Americans. In 1987 and again in 1998, Professor Hauptman was the recipient of the Peter Doctor Indian Memorial Foundation award for his scholarship and applied work on behalf of Native Americans in eastern North America.
- Native American Identity: N. Scott Momaday's "The Names: A Memoir"

Barbara Lovenheim
Barbara P. Lovenheim teaches in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. She has published poetry in millers pond, Hazmat, Scapegoat Review, Tygerburning as well as in the anthologies Of Risk Courage and Women: Our Different Voices and In Other Words: A Poetry Anthology. Her book review on Nicole Cooley's The Afflicted Girls was included on womenwriters.net. She writes a monthly book review of Jewish books called Sfarim.
- The Slight Slant in Our Lives as Contemporary Americans

Timothy Madigan
Timothy J. Madigan teaches philosophy at St. John Fisher College in Rochester. He holds a doctorate degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as M.A. and B.A. degrees from the same institution. He was the Editorial Director for the University of Rochester Press from 1999 to 2004. Before assuming that position he was, for twelve years, on the staff of the publication Free Inquiry, and was its editor from 1996-98.
- The Need for Civility in Contentious Times

Alfred Ronzoni
Al Ronzoni received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Boston College and his Masters degree, also in History, from LIU CW Post, graduating from both institutions with honors. While at CW Post he did research for his Masters Thesis entitled: A Bill Too Far: FDR, Congress and the Third War Powers Bill at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park. He is Treasurer, Trustee, and a regular lecturer at the Greater Astoria Historical Society, co-creator of the Society's monthly History Roundtable program and also writes a monthly column on behalf of the Society for the Western Queens Gazette. In addition, he is a regular contributor to Conducive Chronicle , an online magazine that includes coverage of current events, social issues and activism, history, literature, film, the arts and culture. He has also served as a scholar-facilitator for the New York Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines program.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights

David Sanders
Dr. David Sanders is a retired Professor of English and the father of two grown children living in western New York with his veterinarian wife and two Airedale terriers. In a career of more than 40 years he has taught students of all ages and has always enjoyed getting outside his own classroom to talk about books, poems, and ideas. His book about Frost's North of Boston will be published by Camden House in October of 2011.
- Collaboration and Conflict: Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"

Peter Witkowsky
Peter Witkowsky is an Assistant Professor of English at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY, where he teaches mostly first-year courses in writing and literature, mentors adjunct faculty, and coordinates the student-staffed Writing Center. The essay at the heart of his Conversation is one he has often asked students to read as a gloss on related short fiction. From 2008-10, Peter was a co-facilitator for the Councils program, Together--Book Talks for Kids and Parents.
- American Dreamer: Immigration Politics of Hyphenation

Gregory Young
Gregory Young is an adjunct professor of political science at Finger Lakes Community College and a PhD Student at the University at Buffalo/SUNY in the American Studies program. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in History and Political Science from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, as well as a certificate in Canadian Studies. Gregory's interests include urban studies, transnational empire studies, social computing, intentional community-building, cooking, and gardening. Gregory currently lives in Rochester.
- From Cappuccino to Jambalaya: Food and American Identity
- Techmerica Today: Technology and American Identity