Aaron K. Ketchell, who writes on American popular religion, teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.
Glenn T. Eskew is associate professor of history at Georgia State University.
The noted scholar and essayist John Shelton Reed is William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina. His numerous books include One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture; Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy; and Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South. He also serves as editor of the journal Southern Cultures. He attends the Chapel of the Cross (Episcopal), in Chapel Hill.
Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.
Nicole King is associate professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. She has been published in Soundings and the book Minds, Bodies, Blackness.
Patrick Huber is professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author or editor of five books, including the prize-winning Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (2008) and The Hank Williams Reader (2014).
Ted Ownby is professor of history and Southern Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
