Herman Belz is a professor of U.S. and constitutional history at the University of Maryland in College Park. He has authored four monographs, edited another work, and co-authored a standard text in his field. He is the author of more than 56 articles or chapters in books and 19 essays. Mr. Belz has won grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Bar Foundation for Legal History, among others. His first book was awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. At the University of Maryland, he has served as director of graduate studies in the history department and as a member of both the Campus Senate Executive Committee and the Graduate Council. Mr. Belz received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

Josiah Bunting III is President of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to numerous articles, he has authored six books of fiction and non-fiction, including  The Lionheads; An Education for Our Time; and the forthcoming  Singular Eminence: The Life of George C. Marshall. Mr. Bunting, a Rhodes Scholar, holds four honorary degrees and a Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He has served as Superintendent and Professor of the Humanities at the Virginia Military Institute, having previously served as President of Briarcliff College and Hampden-Sydney College. Mr. Bunting received a B.A. from the Virginia Military Institute, and a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford.

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a professor of central Eurasian studies, history, and India studies as well as an adjunct professor of religious studies and an affiliated faculty member of ancient studies, medieval studies, and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is a frequent presenter at international conferences and has written three books: Evil, Good, and Gender; Conflict and Cooperation; and Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has been awarded grants from the American Academy of Religion and the Social Science Research Council. He has served as a consultant for UNESCO and the U.S. Department of Education. Mr. Choksy received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Dawn Ho Delbanco is an adjunct professor of East Asian art at Columbia University and, since 1991, has taught Western and Asian art in the Columbia University Core Curriculum. She is the author of Art from Ritual: Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and has published on various aspects of Chinese art, including painting, woodblock prints, ceramics, and ritual bronzes. She has lectured at many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Yale Art Gallery. She has consulted for a documentary film on the National Palace Museum in Taipei and has curated an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Ms. Delbanco received an A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Jane Marie (Jamie) Doggett is a County Commissioner in Meagher County, Montana. Educated to be a teacher, she has devoted herself to family ranching and to civic and political leadership that have benefited the public humanities in Montana and throughout the nation. Ms. Doggett has chaired both the Montana Committee for the Humanities and the National Board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. She is a recipient of the Montana Governor's Humanities Award. Ms. Doggett earned a B.A. from Montana State University and teacher certification from Western Montana College.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago-Divinity School. She has written numerous essays and authored and/or edited twenty books, including  Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy and  Augustine and the Limits of Politics. Ms. Elshtain is the recipient of nine honorary degrees and received the 2002 Frank J. Goodnow Award, the American Political Science Association's highest award for distinguished service to the profession. Beginning in Fall 2006, she will serve a three-year appointment as the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. Ms. Elshtain received a B.A. and M.A. from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Gary D. Glenn is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of political science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of 30 articles and book chapters and has delivered more than 50 papers at professional conferences, as well as given numerous lectures in the United States and abroad. He has written on American political thought, the history of political philosophy, and religion in both the Constitution and in modern political philosophy. Among his many awards, he has received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and a Presidential Teaching Professorship from Northern Illinois University, as well as the Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award from The American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha. Mr. Glenn received a B.A. from Loras College and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He has written numerous books and essays including  Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and  Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, which both won the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize, making him the first double Lincoln Laureate. His other awards include the American Library Association Choice Award, the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History, and the Dean's Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly Dean of Templeton Honors College and the Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern University. Mr. Guelzo received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Div. from Philadelphia Theological Seminary.

Mary Habeck is an associate professor of strategic studies in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Habeck is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and previously served as an associate professor of history at Yale University. She has written or edited numerous books and articles, including  Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 and Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror. Ms Habeck received a B.A. from Ohio State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

David Michael Hertz is a professor of comparative literature and an adjunct professor of American studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of three books, including Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Ives and Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form. Mr. Hertz is a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University and a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant recipient. A composer and pianist, he teaches annual undergraduate colloquia on music and culture in the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University. In addition to co-founding the Center for Comparative Arts at Indiana University, he has co-organized several international conferences on the sense of time in world poetry. Mr. Hertz received a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from New York University.

James Davison Hunter is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He has written eight books and numerous essays, articles, and reviews. Mr. Hunter was named as a finalist by the Los Angeles Times for their 1992 Book Prize for his book  Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. In 2005, Mr. Hunter earned the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his book Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation and the Gustavus Myers Award for the Study of Human Rights for Articles of Faith: Articles of Peace. Mr. Hunter received his B.A. from Gordon College and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Tamar Jacoby is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and writes extensively on immigration, citizenship, ethnicity, and race. Her most recent book, Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American, was published in 2004. Her articles and essays have appeared in national magazines, newspapers and journals. Ms. Jacoby also received a fellowship from NEH to support the research and writing of her 1998 book  Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration. She previously served as the senior writer and justice editor for Newsweek and was the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page. In 2002, she co-founded The New Americans Project, a bipartisan group devoted to encouraging immigrants to become citizens. Ms. Jacoby received her B.A. from Yale University and has taught at Yale University, Cooper Union, and the New School University.

Harvey Klehr is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of politics and history at Emory University. He has authored numerous books and articles, including  In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, The Secret World of American Communism, and Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Three of Mr. Klehr's books have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. His awards include the Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory University Scholar-Teacher of the Year, and the Thomas Jefferson Award. He has also led NEH summer seminars on the topics of "Intellectuals and Communism" and "Communism and American Life." Mr. Klehr received his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Iris Cornelia Love is an archeologist, professor, art and music critic, and lecturer. As a field archaeologist, she directed the dig at Knidos, Turkey, where she discovered the Temple of Aphrodite, considered lost for centuries. She has worked extensively at Samothrace and other sites in Greece and in Italy. In addition to her many archaeological discoveries, Ms. Love has published on a variety of academic and cultural subjects. She also has served as editor-at-large for Architectural Digest and Parade Magazine. Ms. Love did her graduate work at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has several honorary degrees.

Robert Martin is professor and Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton. He has authored, co-authored, or edited seven books and numerous articles, including  Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513 - 1900 and Scholarly Communication in an Electronic Environment: Issues for Research Libraries. Mr. Martin has served as Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, Texas, and Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Martin received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.L.S. from North Texas State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wilfred M. McClay is a professor of history and the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is author of  The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994) , which received the Organization of American Historians' 1995 Merle Curti Award for best book in American intellectual history. His honors include the John Templeton Foundation award for distinguished teaching and scholarship. Mr. McClay has also taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program of Princeton University. Mr. McClay received a B.A. from St. John's College and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

Manfredi Piccolomini is a professor of comparative literature at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He has served as the Cultural Director of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Changing Modes of Originality in Art and The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide During the Renaissance. Mr. Piccolomini received his Laurea from the University of Florence and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Ricardo J. Quinones is professor emeritus and the Josephine Olps Weeks Professor of comparative literature at Claremont McKenna College and the director for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. He has authored six books, including The Renaissance Discovery of Time, Dante, The Changes of Cain, and most recently, Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia. He has held academic positions as professor or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, the City University of New York, and UC Irvine. He has served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, chair of the MLA's executive committee on comparative literature, and member of the California Council for the Humanities. Mr. Quinones received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Marvin Scott is a professor of sociology at Butler University. He has co-authored four books, including Schools on Trial: An Inside Account of the Boston Desegregation Case and Five Essential Dimensions of Curriculum Design. He also authored and co-authored eight articles, including "The Effect of Teacher Perception of Personality Factors on the Cognitive and Affective Learning of Black Students." In addition to holding teaching positions at Boston University, Quincy College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mr. Scott has served as President of Saint Paul's College and as Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the Board of Regents of Higher Education in Massachusetts. He is a recipient of a W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship and an American Council on Education Fellowship. Mr. Scott received a B.A. from Johnson C. Smith University and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Marguerite H. Sullivan is Director of the Center on International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy. She is the author of  A Responsible Press Office: An Insider's View published by the U.S. State Department. She served as a former assistant to Vice President Dan Quayle, Chief of Staff to Marilyn Quayle, and head of the federal liaison office of former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. A former reporter and columnist, Ms. Sullivan was also president of the Washington Press Club. She served on the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., and is a former director of communications policy at NEH. Ms. Sullivan also served as director of the U.S. UNESCO Affairs Office and executive director of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Ms. Sullivan received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.

Carol M. Swain is a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University Law School. She has written five books, including Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress, which won the Woodrow Wilson prize in 1994, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, and has most recently published Debating Immigration. Widely recognized for her expertise in race, immigration, black leadership, and evangelical politics, Ms. Swain provides commentary to major networks and programs such as CNN, ABC News, NPR, BBC Radio, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Ms. Swain received a B.A. from Roanoke College, an M.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.L.S. from Yale Law School.

Kenneth R. Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute. A political theorist by training who has written on the history of early modern philosophy, he has taught at Claremont McKenna College and Georgetown University. Mr. Weinstein has written widely on international affairs for leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia including, most recently, "The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror" in The West at War. He has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Weinstein received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, a D.E.A. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Jay Winik is one of the nation's leading public historians. Mr. Winik's many writings include the award-winning New York Times best-seller April 1865: The Month that Saved America, which is now part of the distinguished "Modern Classic" series and was the basis for an Emmy-nominated History Channel special. He is a regular reviewer of history for the Wall Street Journal, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review section, and has contributed to numerous anthologies. He currently serves on boards and advisory councils for the Civil War Preservation Trust, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the James Madison Book Award, Ford's Theatre, and The Lincoln Forum. Mr. Winik received a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.