Bates is an Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. She is a historian of the 19th and 20th centuries U.S. Indigenous South.

Free is Associate Professor of English, affiliate faculty in Gender and Women's Studies, and Barret Honors College faculty.

Lauro is a historian of early modern Japan and he is currently Lecturer in Asian History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Liu is a scholar of the history and preservation of the interior environment.