Maria Montoya
María E. Montoya, Ph.D., earned her doctorate from Yale University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1986. She is an associate professor of history at New York University, as well as the dean of arts and science at New York University, Shanghai. She was previously an associate professor of history and the director of Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. Her specialties include western, labor, Latina/o and environmental history. She is the author of numerous articles as well as the books, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900, and a forthcoming book, A Workplace of their Own. She has taught the U.S. history survey course for more than 25 years and has worked on the AP U.S. history development committee. She also has worked as a consultant to the College Board.
Laura A. Belmonte
Laura A. Belmonte is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and a professor of history at Virginia Tech. She received her Bachelor of Arts in history and political science from the University of Georgia and her Master of Arts and doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. She is author of The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Penn, 2008). She also edited Speaking of America: Readings in U.S. History (2nd edition, Cengage, 2006) and the History in 15 series at Bloomsbury.
Carl J. Guarneri
Carl J. Guarneri is the Brother James Ash Professor of History Emeritus at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He has also been a visiting professor at Colgate University and the University of Paris. A historian of nineteenth-century America, Guarneri has won national fellowships for his research and published prize-winning books and articles on reform movements, utopian socialism, the Civil War and American cultural history. Among these are The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century American (Cornell University Press, 1991), two collections of essays, and Lincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War (University Press of Kansas, 2019). He has co-directed two institutes for the National Endowment for the Humanities on “Rethinking America in Global Perspective” at the Library of Congress. His survey-course reader, America Compared: American History in International Perspective (Cengage, 2nd Edition, 2005), and his brief textbook, America in the World: United States History in Global Context (McGraw-Hill, 2007), are seminal undergraduate texts. His anthology, Teaching American History in a Global Context (M.E. Sharpe, 2008), offers a globalizing “toolkit” for U.S. history instructors. Through his publications and presentations, Dr. Guarneri has been a leading voice in the movement to globalize the study and teaching of U.S. history.
Steven Hackel
Steven Hackel, Ph.D., earned his Bachelor of Arts at Stanford University and his doctorate in American history from Cornell University with specializations in early America and the American West. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and a visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. He is chair and professor of history at University of California Riverside. Within the larger field of early American history, Dr. Hackel’s research specializes on the Spanish Borderlands, colonial California, and Native Californians. He is especially interested in Native responses to Spanish colonialism, the effects of disease on colonial encounters, and new ways of visualizing these processes through digital history. His first book, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2005), garnered numerous national prizes. Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father (Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013) was named a top ten book by Zócalo Public Square and the best book of the year on early California by the Historical Society of Southern California. Dr. Hackel has edited two volumes of essays and published nearly two dozen scholarly essays. He has also been awarded fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and many other agencies and is a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on gender, American social and cultural history, and the histories of colonialism and capitalism. She is the author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and America Under the Hammer: Auctions and Market Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming), as well as multiple articles and book chapters on gender and economy. Dr. Hartigan-O’Connor became interested in globalizing U.S. history through her expertise in Atlantic World and transnational women’s and gender histories. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018), and has been a board member of Women and Social Movements. A founding and standing editor of Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, Dr. Hartigan-O’Connor is also a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.
Lon Kurashige
Lon Kurashige is associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. He is author of Perfect Storm of Exclusion: Asian Americans, Political Debate, and the Making of a Pacific Nation (Chapel Hill-University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990 (University of California Press, 2002), winner of the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He co-edited “Conversations in Transpacific History,” a special edition of Pacific Historical Review (2014). His article “Rethinking Anti-Immigrant Racism: Lessons from the Los Angeles Vote on the 1920 Alien Land Law” won the Carl I. Wheat prize for best publication to appear in the Southern California Quarterly between 2012 and 2014. His writings have appeared in Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and other academic journals.
