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William G. Ross is the Lucille Stewart Beeson Professor of Law and Samford University. His teaching focuses on Constitutional history, Constitutional law, and legal ethics. He has written three books on Constitutional history of the Progressive and New Deal eras, including Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, and the Constitution, 1917-1927.

David F. Wood is a historian and the curator of the Concord Museum.

After receiving a PhD in American History and Government from Harvard University, George Daughan spent three years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Most of the time he taught at the Air Force Academy, where he was director of the MA program in international affairs. Upon returning to civilian life, he taught at the University of Colorado, the University of NH, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, and Harvard University.

Mark N. Katz (born November 11, 1954) is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, United States. He researches and teaches classes about Russian politics and foreign policy, revolution, and the "War on Terror." ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark\_N.\_Katz ""))

The Seung Lab develops computational methods for relating brain structure to function. To establish this relationship, the often reconstruct the connectivity of the same neurons after observation of their activity via two-photon imaging. They also classify neurons into cell types that have characteristic structural and functional properties. Follow Sebastian Seung on Twitter: [@sebastianseung](https://twitter.com/sebastianseung "")

**Dubravka Ugrešic** was born in the former Yugoslavia (Croatia). She is a novelist, essayist, and literary scholar and the author of seven works of fiction and six collections of essays. She has won, or been shorlisted for, more than a dozen prizes, including the NIN Award, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Heinrich Mann Prize, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Man Booker International Prize, and the James Tiptoe Jr. Award. In 2016, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the “American Nobel”) for her body of work. Photo: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubravka\_Ugre%C5%A1i%C4%87 "Dubravka Ugrešic on Wikipedia")

Frank Guenther is professor of speech language, & hearing sciences and biomedical engineering at Boston University. His research combines theoretical modeling with behavioral and neuroimaging experiments to characterize the neural computations underlying speech. He is the originator of the DIVA model, which provides a quantitative account of the neural computations underlying speech motor control and their breakdown in communication disorders such as stuttering and apraxia of speech. He also develops brain-machine interfaces to restore speech communication to individuals suffering from locked-in syndrome, characterized by complete paralysis with intact cognition.