Dr. Ashley Johnson Bavery is an Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches courses in U.S. Immigration History, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the history of Detroit. In 2020, she published Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border (U Penn Press), which was awarded the Immigration & Ethnic History Society's First Book Award.
Dr. Bob Erlewine is Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He is a scholar of modern Jewish thought with a particular interest in the German-Jewish tradition and its legacy in North America, France, and Israel. He is the author of numerous books. In 2016, he published Judaism and the West: From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik (Indiana University Press).
Dr. Peter Higgins is Department Head of History & Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. He teaches courses on Feminist Theory, Political Philosophy, and Global Justice. He is the author of numerous articles and in 2013 he published Immigration Justice (Edinburgh Press).
Dr. Jesse Kauffman is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses on the Holocaust, Twentieth-Century Europe, and German History. In 2015, he published Elusive Alliance: The German Occupation of Poland in World War I (Harvard University Press) and currently finishing a book about Central Europe during World War I.
Dr. John Staunton is Professor of Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He teaches courses on U.S. Women Writers, the Development of American Literature, and the Holocaust. He is the author of numerous articles and in 2018 co-edited a volume entitled Teaching the Literature Survey: New Approaches for College Faculty (West Virginia University Press).