Sarah Allan, Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies Emerita at Dartmouth, is a specialist in early Chinese archeology, though and history. She is most recently Her most recent book is Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Recently Discovered Early Chinese Bamboo-slip Manuscripts (2015), editor of The Guodian Laozi (2000) and The Formation of Chinese Civilization (2005).

Robert Bonner, Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and chair of the Department of History at Dartmouth, is a historian of nineteenth-century North America. His most recently published book is Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood, (2009) and he is currently working on two book manuscript: a biographical study of Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens, and an account of Confederate commerce raiding, privateering, and slave trading.

Pamela Crossley is Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She is most recently the author of Hammer & Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World: (2019). She is a research specialist of the QIng empire, and writes on global history. Her current project is s anew history of the Qing empire for Cambridge University Press (2020).

Steven Ericson researches government financial and industrial policies and their economic and social effects in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is most recently author of Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform (2019), and previously of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan (1996),Êas well as co-editor of The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. He is currently working on trust-busting during the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II.

Gene Garthwaite is professor emeritus of history, Dartmouth, and a specialist on the history of Iran. He is the author of Khans and Shahs: A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiari in Iran (1983) --revised as Khans and Shahs: A History of the Bakhtiyari Tribe in Iran (2009)-- and of The Persians (2005, 2006, 2009).

Levi Gibbs is assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Literatures at Dartmouth. He is the author of Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China. (2018) and is working on a new manuscript, "Visions of the Yellow Earth: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Regional Identity."

Sean Griffin is a visiting fellow of the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. His forthcoming monograph isÊMemory Eternal: The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (Cambridge, 2019). His ongoing research inclusdes the history of new media, and the colonization of Russian Alaska.

Alan Li is senior lecturer in Chinese at Dartmouth College. His research interests include liguistics and pedagogy. His publications include "Agency: a cultural perspective underlying language use". In Mapping the Course Of a Chinese Language Field. (1999) and "Revisiting 'tense' in Chinese: issues relating to the expression of past events" (2004).

Stephan Link, assistant professor of history at Dartmouth, specializes in economic history, business history, and the intellectual history of capitalism. His forthcoming book on the global spread of Fordism in the interwar years is under contract with Princeton University Press. He is most recently author of "How Might 21st-Century De-Globalization Unfold? Some Historical Reflections" in New Global Studies (2018)

Erika Monahan [convener] is associate professor of history at University of New Mexico and visiting associate professor of history at Dartmouth College. is a historian of trade in early modern Eurasia. She is most recently author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (2016), "Moving Pictures: Tobolsk Traveling in Early Modern Texts" in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2018), and is co-editor of Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics, Institutions, Culture. Essays Honoring Nancy Shields Kollmann. (2017)

Donald Ostrowski, now associated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard, is a scholar of Eurasia history and culture. Among his many publications best known is probably Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier (1998). His also the subject of the Dubitando: Studies In History And Culture In Honor Of Donald Ostrowski, edited by Brian J. Boewck, Russel E. Martin and Daniel Rowland ( (2012). He is currently working on the Reigns of Ivan III and Vasilii III and Russian Orthodox Church councils of the 15th through 17th Centuries.

Peter Perdue is professor of history at Yale University. He is a specialist of early modern Chinese economic, military and environmental history. His most recent book is China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005), and is he is also co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity (2008). His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea.

Gil Raz, associate professor of religion at Dartmouth, is a scholar of Daoism, and its interaction with popular religious practices and Buddhism. He is the author of Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition (2012). His current project, titled Advancing Daoism: Epigraphic and Archeological Materials as Sources for Daoist Lived Religion," is funded by a large grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Roberta Stewart is professor of classics at Dartmouth. She is the author of Plautus and Roman Slavery (2012) and Public Office in Early Rome: Ritual Procedure and Political Practice (1998). She is founder of a program for military veterans to use Homer's works as a basis for thinking about modern military veteransÕ experiences, which is now a national network.

Miya Xie is assistant professor of Chinese literature at Dartmouth. She works on literature from frontiersÑfrom the geographical borderland of Manchuria in East Asia, once populated by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Russians, to social margins such as the experiences of violent and violated women or ethnic minorities. Her first book will be based on her 2017 Harvard dissertation, "The Literary Territerialization of Manchuria: Spatial Imagination and Modern Identities in Chinese and East Asian Literature," and supported by a recent grant from SSRC.