Hicham Awad holds an MA in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and has taught courses in film and media history, as well as studio art, at Harvard and the American University of Beirut (AUB). His writing explores subjects such as the British films of Jerzy Skolimowski; Lebanese sociologist Waddah Sharara’s writings on film, and cinema and/against television in the work of French film critics Jean-Claude Biette, Serge Daney, and Louis Skorecki.

Stephen Higa earned a Ph.D. in history from Brown University and a B.A. in history from UC Berkeley. He studies medieval religion and has taught courses in history, religion, theology, gender, sexuality, music, and performance. He currently teaches high school world history and is also a performer of medieval music. 

Julia Bosson received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. Her writing has been featured in publications such as BOMB, VICE, Guernica, and the Believer Logger, among others, and she has taught writing at Columbia University and Baruch College. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where she was a 2019 - 2020 Fulbright Scholar and is working on a book on the life and journalism of the writer Joseph Roth.

Alice Jones-Nelson serves on the Academic Writing faculty of Manhattanville College.  She earned the Ph.D. in History and the M. S. in Journalism at the University of Illinois and is a Stanford Publishing Course alumna.  With teaching experience in global, African, and U. S. histories and interdisciplinary studies, she mentors information literacy enthusiasts in community settings, as well.  To foster student creativity, critical thinking, goal setting, problem solving, and empowerment through effective communication, she also draws upon extensive background in editing and collaborating with artists for book, magazine, and digital media corporations.