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 19th and 20th century Japan and he is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of 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.