Lloyd Benson
Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History, Furman University, Greenville, SC.
Interests: Nineteenth century U.S. Community history, regional identities, politics, conflict processes, and historical memory of secession and Civil War; Atlantic World nationalisms.

Wes Bernardini LENS Fellow
Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.
Interests: Southwest archaeology, Hopi Tribe, migration and identity, ethnogenesis, cultural affiliation

Douglas Fix
Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, OR.
Interests: history of modern China and Japan, with a focus on Formosa.

Karl Grossner
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA.
Interests: Historical GIS, ontology-driven database design, knowledge representation, the cognitive aspects of multimedia learning, and digital earth systems

Mark Hauser
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Interests: empires, historical archaeology, slavery, contraband and piracy, colonialism, critical approaches to race, archaeology of inequality, GIS, material analysis, Caribbean, African Diaspora, archaeology of West Africa

Priya Jha LENS Fellow
Assistant Professor of English, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.
Interests: Transnationalism, borders, the British Empire and its post-colonial legacies.

Kathy Ogren LENS Fellow
Virginia C. Hunsaker Distinguished Chair in Teaching, from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies and the Department of History, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.
Interests: music and poetry routes and roots in the American west.