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Michael J. Bustamante, University of Miami

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Jane Stewart, Colorado State University and David Sterle, Colorado State University

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Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago

Bret R. Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University

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Parth Vaishnav, University of Michigan and Miki Tsuchiya, University of Michigan

Jessica Maddox, University of Georgia and Krysten Stein, University of Cincinnati

Ryan Leack, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst; Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst, and Jesse Rhodes, UMass Amherst

Dale Manning, University of Tennessee; Anya Nakhmurina, Yale University, and Eli Fenichel, Yale University

Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University

John Eric Goff, University of Puget Sound

Michael A. Allen, Boise State University

Michael C. Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania and Lauren Kahn, Georgetown University

Paul J. Springer, Air University

Elizabeth Mendenhall, University of Rhode Island

Kimberly Nath, San Juan College

Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee

Thomas Tweed, University of Notre Dame

Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University

Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University and James Olds, George Mason University

David Mislin, Temple University

Valerie Morkevičius, Colgate University

Timothy J. Pawl, University of St. Thomas

Chris Vagasky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kyle Manley, University of Colorado Boulder

Zachary Handlos, Georgia Institute of Technology

Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan

Menika Dirkson, Morgan State University

Anindya Kundu, Florida International University and Ryan W. Pontier, Florida International University

John Broich, Case Western Reserve University

Aaron Walayat, University of Dayton

Michael A. Allen, Boise State University; Carla Martinez Machain, University at Buffalo, and Michael E. Flynn, Kansas State University

Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wil Burns, American University School of International Service

Rana Mitter, Harvard Kennedy School

Guilherme Casarões, Florida International University and Carlos Ricaurte, Florida International University

Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross

Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State

Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee

Flynn McGuire, University of Utah

Erika Yamazaki, Northwestern University and Ken A. Paller, Northwestern University

Yinchu Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

Casey Pinto, Penn State

Ji Y. Son, California State University, Los Angeles and Alice Xu, University of California, Los Angeles

Maria Lungu, University of Virginia and Steven L. Johnson, University of Virginia

Ahmed Hamza, University of Colorado Boulder

Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

Lynn S. Neal, Wake Forest University

Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University and Tom Belt, Western Carolina University

Joanna Woronkowicz, Indiana University and Doug Noonan, Indiana University Indianapolis

Paulina Maxim, Georgia Institute of Technology