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Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University

Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame

Aldo Romero, West Virginia University

Brett R. Chloupek, Northwest Missouri State University

Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University

Annaliese Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Carrie Grant, Towson University

Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University

Prachi Sanghavi, University of Chicago and Cal Chengqi Fang, University of Chicago

Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University; Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland, and Tiffany D. Meadows, University of Virginia

Eloise Stevens, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation

Gerald K. LeTendre, Penn State

Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The New School

Morgan Marietta, University of Tennessee

Manuel A. Gómez, Florida International University

Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and Alexis Montambault-Trudelle, Université Laval

Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame

Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

John A. Tures, LaGrange College

Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

Robert A. Ballingall, University of Maine

R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University

David Mislin, Temple University

Weizhi Deng, University of Iowa; Jun Wang, University of Iowa, and Meng Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Brian Bossak, College of Charleston

Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University of California, Merced

Dillon Amaya, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph, University of Connecticut

Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky

Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Zuania Colón-Piñeiro, University of Florida; Ana V. Longo, University of Florida; Miguel A. Acevedo, University of Florida, and Nich W. Martin, University of Florida

Jenny Whilde, University of Florida

Guy German, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University and Ana K. Spalding, Smithsonian Institution

Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

Nan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ross Channing Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Michael Helbing, Penn State

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University

Daniel Yue, Georgia Institute of Technology and Yiyang Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology

F. Dermmillah Obare, UMass Boston

Katelyn Frey, Kent State University