Mary Lisa Gavenas
2009/2010 Fellow, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center
Noted scholar on the development of the U.S. beauty industry, especially as it related to cultural history. Author of "Color Stories: Behind the Scenes in America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry" (Simon & Schuster); featured contributor to American National Biography and African American National Biography (Oxford University Press); former senior editor at Glamour, Mirabella, InStyle, Fairchild Publications. Used as an "expert" source in media ranging from The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report to WNYC and BBC-4.

Esther Katz
New York University
Director/Editor, Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Scott Miltenberger
University of California, Davis
I am currently completing my dissertation on domesticated animals in New York City, from the end of the American Revolution to consolidation. My work examines the myriad ways in which animals contributed to the development of New York, and New York in turn contributed to the development of ideas that govern our contemporary relationship with domesticated creatures.

Heather Vaughan
Freelance curator with an expertise in the History of Dress. Noted Scholar and research on the Fashion Design Career of Natacha Rambova (who worked in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s). Also has expertise in the general history of dress for the 1920s and 1930s. NYU Alumni

Elaine S. Abelson
New School University
Urban / Gender 19th-20th century - consumer culture / Great Depression / homelessness / representation

Barbara Abrashh
Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University
film, media

Professor Leslie Alexande
The Ohio State University
Black community, culture, and political activism in NYC, 1790-1865

Eric Allison
Preservation Planning Program, Pratt Institute
Preservation

Orlando Bagwell
Filmmaker, Eyes on the Prize
film, civil rights