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George Herring, Professor Emeritus and formerly Alumni Professor of History, has been connected to the Patterson School from the early Vince Davis years. He received his B.A. from Roanoke College in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1965. Professor Herring retired after thirty-six years at the University of Kentucky. He served as chair of the Department of History from 1973-1976 and 1988-1996, and he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1993, he was a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy and in 2001 at the University of Richmond. In 2002, he was awarded the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Norman A. Graebner Prize for distinguished contributions to the field. Professor Herring's research centered on U.S. foreign relations. His most recent work is *From Colony to Superpower: American Foreign Relations Since 1776*. His other published works include *Aid to Russia*, *1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy*, *The Origins of the Cold War; with Thomas M. Campbell*, and , *The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius; America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975*. Professor Herring is one of the nation's foremost experts on the Vietnam War.

Glenda Gilmore's Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 came out in January 2008 from W. W. Norton Company. Her book Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1986-1920 won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and Yale's Heyman Prize. She edited Who Were the Progressives (2002) and co-edited Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2001). Gilmore is at work on a history of the United States in the twentieth century with her co-author Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania. Gilmore has appeared frequently on NPR and in PBS Documentaries. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Radcliffe at Harvard University, and, in 2006-2007, was the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. A recipient of Yale's Graduate Mentoring Award, Gilmore offers graduate reading and research courses in 20th century political and social history, African-American history after 1865, and the history of the New South. She teaches undergraduate courses on African-American history, the Progressive Era, and lectures on US Political and Social History, 1900-1945.

Joshilyn Jackson was born in the Deep South and raised by a tribe of wild fundamentalists who taught her to be virtuous and upright. Unfortunately, it didn't take, and Ms. Jackson dropped out of college to pursue a career as an actor. She worked in regional repertoire and traveled the southern third of the country with a dinner theater troupe, but after a few years she realized that she preferred writing plays to acting in them. She decided both virtue and an education were worth the work, so she went back to college to study English literature, focusing on Modern and Medieval Theater. She graduated with honors from Georgia State. She moved to Chicago and managed to recover from a near-terminal case of culture shock just in time to earn her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Jackson taught English at UIC, trying to explain the function of the gerund and why *Moby Dick* is a great book to crowds of students. In her first year of teaching, she won the Student's Choice Award for Best English Instructor. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies including *TriQuarterly* and *Calyx*, and her plays have been produced in Atlanta and Chicago. Her bestselling debut novel, *Gods in Alabama* won SIBA's 2005 Novel of the year Award and was a #1 BookSense pick. *Between, Georgia* was also a #1 BookSense pick, making Jackson the first author in BookSense history to receive #1 status in back to back years. Both books were chosen for the Books-A-Million Book Club. Her third novel, *The Girl Who Stopped Swimming*, a national bestseller, was released in March of 2008. She is currently at work on her next novel.

Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. Following higher education at the University of London's Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer. Jacqueline's novels thus far are: *Maisie Dobbs*, *Birds of a Feather*, *Pardonable Lies*, *Messenger of Truth* and *An Incomplete Revenge*, and are set in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with the roots of each story set in the Great War, 1914-1918. Jacqueline's first novel, *Maisie Dobbs*, was a National Bestseller and received an array of accolades, including *New York Times* Notable Book 2003, a *Publishers Weekly* Top Ten Mystery 2003, and a *BookSense* Top Ten selection. In addition, the novel was nominated for 7 awards, including the Edgar for Best Novel, only the second time a first novel was nominated in this category. She subsequently won the prestigious Agatha Award for Best First novel, the Macavity Award for Best First Novel; and the Alex Award, which is presented annually by the American Library Association in conjunction with the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust.

Dr. Naomi Rosenblum, emminent photographic historian, author and pioneer in the field, has written A World History Of Photography and A History Of Women Photographers

Ms. Collier was appointed Executive Director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) on August 31, 1998. The DRBC is an interstate/federal commission that provides a unified approach to water resource management without regard to political boundaries. Before joining DRBC, Ms. Collier was Executive Director of Pennsylvanias 21st Century Environment Commission. Governor Tom Ridge formed the Environment Commission in 1997 to establish the Commonwealths environmental priorities and to recommend a course of action for the next century. Ms. Collier has a B.A. in Biology from Smith College and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Professional Planner licensed in the State of New Jersey, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a Certified Senior Ecologist. In 1997 she was presented the Touchstone Award from the Society of Women Environmental Professionals and in 1998 the Woman of Distinction Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal. In 2007 the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) presented her with the Mary H. Marsh Medal for exemplary contributions to the protection and wise use of the nations water resources.

Charles Chick Krautler is the director of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). As head of the official metropolitan planning organization for the 10-county, 63-city Atlanta Region, he oversees and directs regional planning programs in the areas of transportation, air quality, the environment, land use, water supply and quality, as well as aging services and workforce development. Mr. Krautler began his work in regional planning councils as the executive director of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. Before coming to ARC, he was President of the Triangle J Council of Governments. Earlier in his career Mr. Krautler served as manager of Public Affairs for the Washington Gas Light Company in Washington, DC and executive vice president of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Krautler is a member of numerous professional organizations. He currently serves as the President of the Georgia Association of Regional Development Centers (GARDC) and is a member of the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC); the Clean Air Campaign (CAC) Board of Directors; the Georgia Foreign Trade Zone Board of Directors; the Southeastern Regional Directors Institute (SERDI); the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the Atlanta Rotary Club and the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF).