Susan Juster oversees the Research division at The Huntington, a group that hosts more than 150 long- and short-term research fellows as well as some 1,700 researchers each year. Juster also leads the more public-facing research activities of conferences, lectures, and related programs. Prior to joining The Huntington, she was the Rhys Isaac Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also served as Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. A recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Juster is the author of numerous books on the religious history of the early English Atlantic.

Katharine Gerbner is a historian who examines how religion shapes – and is shaped by – race, politics, and technology. She examines religious practices that have been excluded from traditional definitions of religion and develops multilingual archival strategies to uncover stories that have been marginalized or forgotten. She is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota and has participated in documentaries, interviews, podcasts, and radio shows on many topics, including the relationship between Christianity and slavery, the history of race and religion, and the importance of archival research and history education in the age of AI.