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Art Harrish has 13 years with CNN as a two-time Emmy Award-winning investigative correspondent and an embedded reporter in Iraq, to covering Hollywood scoops, scandals and politics for *Entertainment Tonight*. As a journalist-producer, he also creates a variety of news, entertainment and web projects as chief executive officer of Atlanta-based *Busystreet Productions*. A veteran journalist, he created The Bald Truth (www.artharris.com), a popular news blog with attitude that counts well over a million page views its first year, and draws on Art's three decades covering celebrity, politics, war, true crime, pop culture and Hollywood.

Vincent Cornell is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Islamic studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, Duke University, and most recently the University of Arkansas, where for the past six years he served as professor of history and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He has lived and worked in Morocco for nearly six years and has spent considerable time both teaching and doing research in Egypt, Tunisia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Dr. Gregory has been a member of the Community Development and Applied Economics faculty since 2005 when she joined CDAE to help build the then-new public communication major. Her recent interests have focused on receiver perceptions of communication and message crafting in the areas of health, education, and public relations. Dr. Gregory offers students in most of her courses the opportunities to work on communication strategies and campaigns in the real world by linking them with organizations in the community. She has a breadth of marketing experience both within and outside of the academic settings. Her international experience includes a teaching/research position at the American University of Armenia from 1999-2002 and she currently leads The Intercultural Experience course that goes each spring break to Belize.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Moore began playing after graduating Booker T. Washington High School in 1933 with Atlanta Black Crackers.[1] Over the next six years, Moore moved among that team, Macon Peaches, Chattanooga Choo-Choos, Schenectady Black Socks, Newark Eagles and Baltimore Elite Giants, gradually earning a reputation according to Voices from the Negro Leagues as perhaps "the best fielding basement of all time" in his league.[2] In 1940, after finishing the regular season in Baltimore, Moore played in a winter season in Los Angeles, California that allowed white and black players to compete against each other, a competition that was first allowed and then halted by Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.[3] Moore himself believed that the games were halted because the black players were too successful, stating that "The public, they liked to see the competition, but the commissioner, he didn't have that attitude after he found out that we were drawin' real good crowds and we were beatin' 'em a lot."[3] Moore registered for military draft in October of 1940 and served from 1942 to 1945. For the three years after World War II, he returned to baseball with the Black Crackers.[3] At his most highly paid, prior to the war, he earned $250 a month with a $1.50 daily food allowance.[4] In 2006, Moore was among six individuals inducted into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, in its second year of existence.[5]

Dr. Carol Crown, professor of art history at the University of Memphis, contributed the principal essay on the Mullis Collection in the book *Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection*. The book won a bronze medal at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards and received the prize in the fine arts category at the 12th annual IPPY Awards in Los Angeles.

Dan Reiter, B.A. (1989), Northwestern University, Ph.D. (1994), University of Michigan, John M. Olin post-doctoral fellow in national security, Harvard University (1994-1995) specializes in international conflict, foreign policy decision-making, national security policy, international alliances. His current research interests include why democracies win wars, international sources of democratization, whether democracies are more likely to ally with each other, and using event history analysis to study international conflict.

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to be a newspaper reporter and after graduating from the University of Sydney she went to work for the *Sydney Morning Herald*. Three years later, she won a scholarship to attend Columbia University's Graduate school of Journalism. From there, she was hired by *The Wall Street Journal*. After a year covering basic industry in Cleveland, she returned home to Sydney and opened one of the *Journal*'s farthest flung bureaus, filing stories from the New Guinea highlands, Arnhem Land and South West Tasmania. From New Zealand, in 1987, she filed what she considers her most notable dispatch, on the opportunity to study global warming afforded by the country's huge, methane-producing, sheep population. The so-called "farting sheep" story led to her appointment as Middle East bureau chief for the *Journal*, where she spent six years covering regional conflicts, including the first Gulf War, and wrote her first book of non-fiction, *Nine Parts of Desire*, published in 1994. Later, as the *Journal*'s UN Correspondent, she covered conflicts in Bosnia and Somalia and African development issues. In Nigeria to report on Shell Oil's collusion with the Abacha military dictatorship, she was arrested and thrown in a lock up in Port Harcourt, accused of being a spy. While there, she began to consider a midlife career change. In 1995 she wrote a memoir, *Foreign Correspondence*, which chronicles a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them. Her first novel, *Year of Wonders*, published in 2001, was inspired by the true story of Eyam, Derbyshire, where villagers voluntarily quarantined themselves when plague struck in 1665. He second novel, *March*, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic *Little Women* from the point of view of Mr. March, the absent father, won the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 2006. Her most recent novel, *People of the Book*, has been translated into more than 20 languages and was an instant *New York Times* bestseller.