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Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Moses is an American educator and civil rights activist, known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Since 1982 Moses has developed the nationwide Algebra Project in the United States. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and other awards for this work, which emphasizes teaching algebra skills to minority students based on broad-based community organizing and collaboration with parents, teachers and students. Moses earned a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, and received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions.

Elizabeth Deane is executive producer of *Latin Music USA*, PBS’s 4-part series premiering on October 12. As executive producer of PBS’s ten-part musical history *Rock & Roll*, she won the Peabody Award and the ASCAP Award for Excellence in Music Programming. The series was also nominated for an Emmy and for the BAFTA, Britain’s most prestigious television award. Deane, whose professional interests range from music to history and politics, served as executive producer for *The Kennedys* and *Nixon*, two presidential profiles for the history series American Experience which remain among the most-watched special programs in PBS history. Her recent films include *John & Abigail Adams* (2006) and *Reconstruction: The Second Civil War* (2004). Before that, she produced numerous award-winning PBS projects, including *Vietnam: A Television History*. Her numerous awards include four George Foster Peabody Awards, a duPont Columbia award, an Emmy, a Writers' Guild Award, a Gold Medal from Worldfest Houston, the Japan Prize, the Erik Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians, and Britain's Broadcasting Press Guild award.

Author of *Complicity: How The North Promoted, Prolonged, And Profited From Slavery*. Anne Farrow is a veteran journalists for *The Hartford Courant*, the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication.

Ira Katznelson (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1969) is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory, as well a political and social history. He returned in the fall 1994 to Columbia, where he had been an assistant and associate professor from 1969-1974. Professor Katznelson was President of the American Political Science Association for 2005-2006. Previously, he served as President of the Politics and History Section of APSA, President of the Social Science History Association, and Chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

David Brenneman was appointed director of collections and exhibitions in 2006, in addition to his role as the Frances B. Bunzl Family curator of european art, which he assumed in 1995. He also has been the managing curator of the Louvre Atlanta exhibit.