Bright Alozie is an associate professor of Black Studies and coordinator of the African Studies Certificate Program at Portland State University. He holds a PhD from West Virginia University. His research has appeared in Ufahamu, Frontiers: a Journal of Women's Studies and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He is the author of African Voices in Ink: Petitions, Petition Writing, and the Colonial State in Igboland, Nigeria 1892-1960 (Lexington Books, 2024).
Lindsay Braun is an associate professor of African history at the University of Oregon. He holds a PhD from Rutgers University. His research has appeared in Science, Technology & Society and the Journal of Southern African Studies. He is the author of Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850-1913 (Brill, 2015).
Melissa Graboyes is an associate professor of African history and Medical history at the University of Oregon. She holds a PhD and Masters in Public Health from Boston University. Graboyes is the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 (Ohio University Press), and co-editor of Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Ohio University Press).
Julie Weise is an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. Her PhD is from Yale University. Her research has appeared in Latino Studies and The Journal of American Ethnic History. She is the author of Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (University of North Carolina Press 2015).
Jennifer Tappan is an associate professor of history at Portland State University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University. Her research has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies and she is the author of The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Ohio University Press 2017).