Phillip B. Guingona is an assistant professor of history at Nazareth University in upstate New York where he teaches courses on East and Southeast Asian history and on the histories of sports, the internet, and gender and sexuality. His early research explored the entangled histories of Asia in the early twentieth century with a specific focus on China and the Philippines, and new projects examine the histories of communications technologies, data collection, and data subversion.
Devin Leigh is a historian in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis, and currently teaches African History at the University of San Francisco and World History and Global Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the history of the early-modern Atlantic World, with a focus on connections between the Caribbean, West Africa, and Great Britain in the eighteenth century. His scholarship can be found in various academic journals, most recently The CLR James Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Journal of Caribbean History.
Michelle Rose Mann is a scholar of French history, with a focus on colonialism in North Africa, as well as a devoted educator with over 15 years of experience working with innovative teaching and learning projects in the humanities and social sciences. Her experiences include directing the Brandeis University Writing Center, creating new courses for the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University, leading workshops for the Concord Review Summer Writing Camp, designing a new Civics program at Bancroft School, and leading students to state and national success in the National History Day competition. Most recently, she participated in developing new materials for the Culture and Citizenship in Quebec program in Montreal, where she is currently pursuing Quebec teaching licensure.
Brenna Miller is a Teaching Assistant Professor at Washington State University and Associate Director of History for the 21st Century. Her research focuses on Cold War era Yugoslavia and she has taught a range of courses in Modern European, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and World Histories. She is particularly interested in teaching and learning and history pedagogy in introductory World History courses.
Jesse Spohnholz is Director of the History for the 21st Century project, Professor of History at Washington State University, and the author of multiple books on the history of refugees, including Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2020).