Elaine Abelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Urban Studies Program, Eugene Lang College, New School University; author, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (1990).

Barbara Abrash, Filmmaker, Co-Director, Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University.

Stuart Ewen, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, CUNY and Hunter College; author, P.R.: A Social History of Spin (1996), All Consuming Images (1988), Captains of Consciousness (1976).

Chana Gazit, Filmmaker, American Experience: The Pill, 1968, Dustbowl, others; recipient, Emmy Award.

Eliza McFeely, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, the College of New Jersey.

Kathy Peiss, Ph.D., Graduate Program Director and Professor of History, University of Massachusetts; author, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986); co-edited anthologies, Passion and Power: Sexuality in History (1989); Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (1996), and Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998).

Alan Trachtenberg, Ph.D., Neil Gray, Jr. Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University; author, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (1965) and The Incorporation of American Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982). His Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (Hill & Wang 1989) was awarded the Charles C. Eldridge Prize for “outstanding scholarship in American art,” by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990.  

Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Professor of Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University; author, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present (2000) and Picturing Us: African-American Identity In Photography (1994). 

Bonnie Yochelson, Ph.D., Author and Curator, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (1997); Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography (1996); New York to Hollywood: Photography by Karl Strauss (1995).