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Jim Ambuske

Charlottesville, VA | Director of Digital History, Inpursuit.org; Omohundro Institute Digital Fellow; Creator and narrator, Worlds Turned Upside Down; co-host, Revolutions in Retrospect, Scholar in Residence, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University

Topics of Expertise digital public history early American legal history emigration and the American Revolution Loyalism Origins and history of the American Revolution Scotland transatlantic legal history

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Edward J. Blum

San Diego, CA | Professor of History, San Diego State University; Director, American Revolution and Constitution History Project

Topics of Expertise Articles of Confederation Continental Congresses Data demography Information networks Numerical Information ratification of the US Constitution state constitutions (1776-1820s) the Census The Constitution

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Liz Covart

Boston, MA | Co-Founder, Clio Digital Media; Creator & Host, Ben Franklin’s World

Topics of Expertise AI and history American Revolution Articles of Confederation Digital media literacy and civics Early American politics and culture Origins of the American Union Speaking with the public about history and civics

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Zachary Deibel

Lexington, VA | Assistant Professor, Virginia Military Institute

Topics of Expertise Education in the Atlantic World History of Education in Colonial and Revolutionary America Informal Learning in Early America Politicization of Education in Early America

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Kathleen DuVal

Chapel Hill, NC | Carl W. Ernst Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill

Topics of Expertise American Revolution foundations of American democracy

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David Gellman

Hamilton, NY | Professor of History, DePauw University; Visiting Professor at Colgate University for 2026-2027 Academic Year

Topics of Expertise abolitionist movement Abraham Lincoln American Revolution Declaration of Independence founding generation and slavery/emancipation politics in the early republic

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Emma Hart

Philadelphia, PA | Director, McNeil Center; Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Capitalism Civic participation in early America Elections Local Government

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Donald F. Johnson

Fargo, ND | Associate Professor of History, North Dakota State University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution loyalism and political allegiance memory and memorialization military occupation political violence popular politics war and society

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Shawn McKay

Williamsburg, VA | Volunteer Colonial Williamsburg; Retired Naval Officer

Topics of Expertise Archiving Black Americans in Colonial America origins of democracy Social history of Early American Republic

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Max Perry Mueller

Lincoln, NE | Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Topics of Expertise American religious history Indian slavery Native American history race and religion religions and worldviews of presidents settler colonialism

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J. Patrick Mullins

Milwaukee, WI | Associate Professor of History and Public History Director

Topics of Expertise American Revolution civic culture influence of religion and Enlightenment natural rights political resistance visual culture and politics

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Molly Nebiolo

Indianapolis, IN | Assistant Professor of History, Butler University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution colonialism digital humanities historical research and methodology history of public health urban development

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Mark Peterson

New Haven, CT | Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, Yale University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution founding/chartering of colonies political economy religion in American history US Constitution

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Gautham Rao

Washington, DC | Associate Professor of History

Topics of Expertise Civil War constitutional history Culture Wars Founding of US Law and Slavery Legal History Supreme Court History

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Lori Rogers-Stokes

Arlington, MA | Independent scholar

Topics of Expertise Indigenous-English Congregationalism puritans in Woodland New England women's history

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Jessica Choppin Roney

Philadelphia, PA | Director Designate of the Library Company of Philadelphia and Associate Professor, Temple University

Topics of Expertise admission of states American Revolution Colonial America early constitutional history political history voluntary associations western expansion

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Eric Schlereth

Dallas, TX | Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas

Topics of Expertise American Revolution citizenship emigration and immigration national borders religion and politics religious freedom

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique

Northampton, MA | Associate Professor, Umass-Amherst

Topics of Expertise British empire constitutions early America and the world higher education political economy public records and archives

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Grant Stanton

Newark, NJ | Assistant Professor, Drew University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Black Politics Civil War Colonial Society Constitution Enlightenment Legal History Race and Slavery

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Dillon Streifeneder

Poughkeepsie, NY | Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Civil-Military Relations Development of Democracy Local governance State Constitutions

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Kevin Vrevich

Middletown, CT | Upper School Humanities Teacher, Moses Brown School

Topics of Expertise electoral policies political parties regionalism religion and politics slavery and politics social movements state politics

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John C. Winters

Alexandria, VA | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RRCHNM

Topics of Expertise history of memory history of museums imperial history Native American history

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Helena Yoo-Roth

Philadelphia, PA | Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, McNeil Center

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Colonial America communications systems imperial crisis political culture

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