Cherie Barkey (Ph.D. 2000) is tenured at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California, where she teaches Chinese History, Japanese History, World History and U.S. Women's history. Recent interests include the history of Gender along the Silk Road and the histories of women and gender in Santa Cruz County.

Lisa N. Trivedi (Ph.D. 1999) returned in summer '05 from a 9-month Fulbright Research Grant in India where she was conducting the first round of research for her second book, Bound By Cloth: women textile workers in Bombay and Lancashire, 1860-1940. Building upon her first book, Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2006), Trivedi is now turning to a comparative history of women that will explore women's health, living conditions and consumption patterns. Trivedi is an assistant professor of history at Hamilton College.

Jennifer Selwyn (Ph.D. 1997) is an Associate Professor of History and Core Faculty in Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches courses in the history of early modern Europe, especially Italy, history of gender and sexuality, and cross-cultural encounters. Current research interests include marriage politics in eighteenth-century Naples and the life of the Neapolitan radical journalist Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel.

James F. Brooks (Ph.D 1995) is President and CEO of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Captivity and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) garnered eight distinguished prizes, including the first ever "Triple Crown" of the Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes. His new book, Mesa of Sorrows: Archaelogogy, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo, will be published in 2007.