Akin Ogundiran is a professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the UNC Charlotte, where he also served as chair of the Africana Studies Department from 2008 to 2018. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Archaeological Review.
David Goldfield, Ph.D., is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, a position he has held since 1982. A native of Memphis, Tennessee,he grew up in Brooklyn and attended the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of 16 books including two, "Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers" (1982) and "Black, White and Southern" (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Greg Weeks is associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He is also a professor of Political Science. Weeks has published several books and dozens of articles on Latin American politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latino immigration.
Jurgen Buchenau is professor of History at Latin American Studies. The author and editor of nine books and 35 articles and book chapters, he is the recipient of two major fellowships and co- principal investigator on four federal grants.
