Janell Hobson

is currently the chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender. Hobson received a BA from University of Georgia and completed her PhD at Emory University.

Precious Lovell

is an associate professor of fashion design at the Moore College of Art and Design. Beyond her career as an educator on the college-level, she is also a working textile artist who has shown domestically and internationally. Lovell holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MAD from North Carolina State University.

Nell Irvin Painter

is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita at Princeton University. She is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol, The History of White People, and Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over. Painter received a PhD from Harvard University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Seth Rockman

is an associate professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore and co-edited Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Rockman received a BA from Columbia University and completed his PhD at UC-Davis.

Eulanda Sanders

is currently the chair of the Department of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management at Iowa State University. She also serves as the Donna R. Danielson Professor of Textiles and Clothing in Apparel, Merchandising and Design. Sanders received a BA from Colorado State University and completed his PhD at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Laura Wexler

is professor of American Studies, professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and co-chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum at Yale University. She is the author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism, Pregnant Pictures, and Interpretation and the Holocaust. Wexler received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and completed her PhD at Columbia University.