Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety of courses in Jewish civilization. Her awards include AU’s highest faculty award, Scholar/Teacher of the Year (2007). Pamela Nadell’s books include America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today (W.W. Norton, 2019), named Jewish Book of the Year by the Jewish Book Council. Reviewed in the New York Times, America’s Jewish Women was praised as “a welcome addition to the American historical canon.” Past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, Nadell’s other titles include Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889–1985 (Beacon Press, 1998). She consults for museums including the National Museum of American Jewish History and the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. She lectures widely, frequently appears on podcasts, and has written for, among others, the Washington Post, The Conversation, and Hadassah Magazine. In 2017, she testified before Congress about antisemitism on college campuses. She is currently writing a history of antisemitism in America

Cornelius L. Bynum is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University. His research focuses on progressive impulses among African Americans and authentic and independent strains of black radicalism in the early twentieth century. His publications include, A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights, that explores Randolph’s thoughts about social justice and his civil rights activism and the co-edited volume, The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century, that examines the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice that African American artists and intellectuals, performers and protest activists, institutions and organizations, and educators and religious leaders all waged together.

Robyn Muncy's scholarship and teaching focus on women, social policy, progressive social movements, and labor/working-class history in twentieth-century America. Her first book, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935, analyzes the role of professional and activist women in creating the U.S. welfare state. Her second volume, Engendering America, is a co-edited documentary history of gender in the U.S. since 1865. Her most recent book, Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America, is a political biography of activist Josephine Roche, which analyzes America’s progressive reform tradition from the Progressive Era through the Great Society. It is part of the Politics and Society Series at Princeton University Press. While the early twentieth-century remains an important interest, post-World War II political culture and social policy have engaged Professor Muncy more recently. Examples include “The Strange Career of the “Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s” (Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 2018); “Coal-Fired Reform: Social Citizenship, Dissident Miners, and the Great Society” (Journal of American History, 2009); and "Cooperative Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965," (Journal of Social History, 2004). Professor Muncy has become increasingly involved in public history projects. Most significantly, she guest curated an exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, DC titled Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote (open to the public from May 10, 2019 to January 3, 2021). Professor Muncy has made several appearances on broadcast media. She was a talking head for an episode of The Sixties, a 10-hour documentary broadcast on CNN in 2014. She appeared in Fire at the Triangle, a PBS documentary on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which premiered on The American Experience in 2011. She was interviewed in The First Measured Century, another PBS documentary that first aired in 2000 and was subsequently excerpted for a DVD [The Idea Makers: The Women of Hull House (Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2004)] and an eVideo [The Women of Hull House: Harnessing Statistics for Progressive Reform (New York: Films Media, 2000)]. C-SPAN’s “Lectures in American History” broadcast one of her classroom lectures, “American Women Did Not Go Home After World War II: Women’s Labor Force Participation, 1945-2000,” which remains available on the C-SPAN web site as do several of Professor Muncy’s public lectures. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is a contributing editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.