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Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann is the author, most recently, of Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners, published by Columbia University Press. 

His book The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality was published by Princeton University Press. In its review, Publishers Weekly wrote, “Keeping contemporary history timely and accessible, Borstelmann shows the significance of 1970s politics, culture, and religion on the following decades.” The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, was published by Harvard University Press.

Tim is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches U.S. and international history. He previously taught at Cornell University.

James Brooks is the author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, from the Organization of American Historians, among other awards.

His most recent book is Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre, published by W. W. Norton. A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat’ovi, and the event’s echo through American history, the book was awarded the Caughey Western History Prize and Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award. Library Journal called Mesa of Sorrows “An attractive, authoritative read.”

An interdisciplinary scholar of the indigenous and colonial past, he is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Georgia. He recently concluded ten year’s service on the Board of Directors of the Western National Parks Association, which supports research, preservation and education in 67 National Parks, including Bandelier National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, and Channel Islands National Park.

Mark Buchanan is a physicist and science writer and the author of Ubiquity, Nexus Small Worlds and the New Science of Networks, The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, and Forecast: What Extreme Weather Can Tell us About Economics€“. In all of these books, Mark explores the potential for ideas from the modern physical sciences to help us understand human social systems.

A former editor of both the international science journal Nature, and the more popular science magazine New Scientist, he has written articles for those publications as well as for magazines in the US and the UK, including Science, Wired, the New York Times, the Independent (London), the Harvard Business Review and Technology Review. He currently writes a monthly column for Bloomberg News. He has been following physicists’ efforts to model economic and financial systems for over a decade and has written many articles on how physics can inform an approach to economics and finance.

Nexus, published by W. W. Norton, has been translated into eleven languages. It was short-listed for the Aventis Science Writing Prize. The Social Atom was published by Bloomsbury. Booklist wrote, “Packed with intriguing examples  …  the book challenges us to reappraise everything we think we know about why we do the things we do.”  Bloomsbury also published Forecast.  Kirkus praised the book for its “stimulating deconstruction of contemporary economic theory.”

Jon Butler is known for his research on the role of religion in early American history, He is the author of several award-winning books, most recently, God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan.  Praised as “enthralling” by Elizabeth Alexander, it was published by Harvard University Press.

His other books include Awash in A Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, winner of the Beveridge Prize and the Outler Prize, and Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a History Book Club selection.

Jon is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. At Yale, he served as chair of the American Studies Program, as director of the Division of the Humanities, and as chair of the Department of History . He was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and also served as interim University Librarian. He is currently an adjunct research professor at the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, in the Department of History.