Stephen Ortega is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in History/Archives Management at Simmons College. He has published two books, one on cross-cultural exchange between Venice and Ottoman Empire, and the other a co...
Jim Downs is the author of Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is currently investigating the international cholera epidemics in the nineteenth century and how the outbreak of infectious...
Vanessa Ogle is a historian of Europe from the 18th century to the present. She is received her PhD from Harvard University and is currently Associate Professor of History at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Global...
Westenley (Wes) Alcenat is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University in New York City. His research interest is in comparative U.S and Caribbean history with a strong focus on the shared histories of the African Diaspora and nations in the...