United States Experts
A journalist, Ilan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.
A 2007 – 2009 Journalism Fellow at The Asia Society, he was the recipient of the 2008 Lange-Taylor Prize, and was the recipient of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship, a Ruhr Grant from the University of Dortmund and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute. Last fall he was a jou...
Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, I grew up surrounded by extended family, attended the same schools as my parents and grandparents, and for a time lived in the house my great-grandmother built in the 1920s. I became interested in immigration history and ethnic politics in the rich multicultural environment of East Los Angeles, and when my family moved to north...
Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester
Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism, Louisiana State University
Jack Hamilton’s career has traced a path through newsrooms, the corridors of government, and a university campus. Hamilton came to Louisiana State University in 1992 to head the Manship School of Mass Communication. He stepped down as dean in 2010 to become the executive vice-chancellor and provost. As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the...
Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland-College Park; Project Director, The "Center" for African American Women's Labor Studies Project
As Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, I teach courses on Afro-American History, Black Culture, Women's History and Women and Work. I received my Ph.D. in United States History from the Department of History at Howard University. I am the recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, including the Smithsonian Postdoctoral...