Joseph Dorinson is a retired History professor at Long Island University. Dorinson has written books, "Kvetching and Shpritzing: Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture," (2015), has co-edited the SABR Award winning book, "Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream", (1999), and has written numerous articles on a variety of subjects spanning his beloved borough of Brooklyn focusing on sports, politics, humor, race, gender, and ethnicity. He has organized conferences at LIU on Jackie Robinson (1997), Brooklyn (1998), Paul Robeson (1998) and Basketball, (2001) at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.

Claudia Dunlea, Ph.D., is a senior instructor of history at FAU. She earned her doctoral degree in European integration history from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Dunlea is the author of a book that investigates the origins of a supranational European foreign policy in the 50s. Her recent research on the diplomatic relations of the European Union was published in two international publications. Having been born and raised in post-WW II Germany, Dunlea developed a deep personal interest in the 12 dark years of her country’s history. Among other topics, she is teaching courses on WW II, aspects of the Holocaust, and modern Germany’s attempt to deal with its Nazi past.

Samuel M. Edelman, Ph.D., is the former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and one of the founding faculty members of the Academic Council for Israel. He is also an academic fellow for Israel Studies and Zionism at the University of Miami’s Miller Center for Judaic Studies. He is the former director of the Israel on Campus Coalition Academic Affairs department. He has served as the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Edelman is also a frequent lecturer on world affairs issues for the high-end cruise ship industry.

Ira Mark Egdall is the award-winning author of Einstein Relativity Simple: Our Universe Explained in Everyday Language and the eBook Unsung Heroes of the Universe. His latest book is Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science and Religion and How It Led to the Secular Age. Mark gives lectures in modern physics as well as the history of the science /religion conflict at Lifelong Learning Institutes in South Florida. He is a retired aerospace program manager with an undergraduate degree in physics from Northeastern University. In his 35-year aerospace career, Mark served as program manager for state-of-the-art optical systems for NASA and DOD while at BAE Systems in Lexington, Massachusetts and at Itek Optical Systems in the same city. When not thinking about writing, Mark spends his time playing with his five grandchildren and driving his wife of 55 years crazy.

Meredith Ellis, PhD,is an Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at FAU. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Syracuse University, an M.A. in Anthropology, and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Rochester. Ellis is a bioarchaeologist who specializes in theoretical approaches to understanding the past through skeletal remains, particularly the remains of sub-adults (children) and remains from the 19th century U.S. She has worked on multiple collections, including the Spring Street Presbyterian Church site and the Donner Party Alder Creek campsite. She is the author of the 2019 book, "The Children of Spring Street: The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation" (Springer Press)and the co-editor of the 2018 book Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives (Oxbow Books).

Stephen D. Engle, Ph.D., is FAU's Associate Provost for Academic Personnel. A former Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Engle is a Professor of History with over three decades on the faculty. He currently directs the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium Series on the American Presidency and has previously served as department chair and graduate programs director. In addition, Engle is a prize-winning author, a C-Span lecturer in American history, and Andrew Mellon Fellow. He is currently a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and a lecturer for the Smithsonian Institution's Associates Program. In 2016, he was named Florida Atlantic University's Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and in 2019, he was appointed FAU's Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA.