ASSISTANT PROF. of HISTORY
Charissa Threat, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, has published her first book, Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps (University of Illinois Press, 2015). In this book, Threat investigates civil rights within the context of the Army Nurse Corps, focusing on the campaigns of both black women and white men to gain access to the Corps.

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — PROF of HISTORY, CHAIR
Jennifer D. Keene is a specialist in American military experience during World War I. She is currently President of the Society of Military History. She has published extensively on the American involvement in the First World War including works on the experience of African Americans in the war. Dr. Keene was most recently featured on PBS series The Great War. She is also the lead author for an American history textbook, Visions of America: A History of the United States that uses a visual approach to teaching students U.S. history.

HISTORIAN
is an American historian and author of Lithuanian descent, a former chief historian of NASA. He retired in 2016 as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Launius is a consulting historian in air and space history. He has written many books on space flight, and also published on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. He has written or edited more than thirty books on aerospace history.