Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities; Professor of History and Anthropology; the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute; and Divisional for the Humanities at USC Dornsife.   He is the author of seven books including NATURE AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC (Penn, 2018); FATAL JOURNEY: THE FINAL EXPEDITION OF HENRY HUDSON–A TALE OF MUTINY AND MURDER IN THE ARCTIC (Basic Books, 2009); HAKLUYT’S PROMISE: AN ELIZABETHAN’S OBSESSION FOR AN ENGLISH AMERICA (Yale, 2007) DEADLY MEDICINE: INDIANS AND ALCOHOL IN EARLY AMERICA (Cornell, 1995); and, most recently, THE TRIALS OF THOMAS MORTON: AN ANGLICAN LAWYER, HIS PURITAN FOES, AND THE BATTLE FOR A NEW ENGLAND (Yale, 2019). He is currently writing AMERICAN ORIGINS, which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States. In 2012 he delivered the Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.  He was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Peter Inker is the Director of Historical Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, home to the largest outdoor living history museum in the United States. He began his academic career as an archaeologist, with a research concentration in Migration Period culture change identifiable through metalworking techniques. His recent work has been in museum and heritage environments, including working with virtual and augmented reality. Currently he is leading Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s historians in developing new frameworks for understanding the past and ways in which we can connect scholarly research with a public audience. He writes for both scholarly and public audiences. He is Chair of EXARC, and a board member of Rumsiskes Market Town museum, a museum planned to show how residents of Eastern European towns coexisted before the Holocaust.