Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University.
W. Robert Connor is president and director of the National Humanities Center and professor of classics at Duke University. Previously, he was the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University. In 1986 he received the Howard Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, and in 1987-88 he was president of the American Philological Association. His books include The New Politicians of Fifth Century Athens (1971) and Thucydides (1984).
Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1957 through 1960 and the Townsend Classical Lecturer at Cornell University in 1991. In 1987 he received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California, and in 1990 the Phi Beta Kappa Award for excellence in teaching. In 1992-93 he served as president of the American Philological Association. His books include The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (1984) Ð awarded the James H. Breasted Prize Ð and Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992).
Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, and professor of history, at the University of Iowa. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and at Stanford University. In 1993 she received the University of IowaÕs Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. In 1988-89 she served as president of the American Studies Association and currently is president-elect of the Organization of American Historians. She gave the Jefferson Memorial Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Her books include Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (1970) and Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (1980).
Sheryl WuDunn is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times (Tokyo Bureau). She graduated from Cornell University in 1981 and holds a master of business administration degree from Harvard University and a master of public administration degree in international affairs from Princeton University. She worked for several major newspapers before joining The New York Times as a correspondent in Beijing. In 1990 she and her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for international reporting for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests in China, becoming the first married couple ever to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Their China coverage also won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting. The couple co-wrote the book China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (1994).