Olivier Zunz is the Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of "Why the American Century?," "Making America Corporate," and "The Changing Face of Inequality.
Cohen received his Ph.D. from the University of London. His principal research interest is the historical anthropology of the pre-colonial Lakes Plateau region of eastern and central Africa. He is Professor of History and Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University where he directs the Program in Atlantic History, Culture, and Society.
Charles Tilly was born in Lombard, Illinois in May 1929. He died in 2008. Charles Tilly (1929-2008) held faculty appointments at Delaware, Harvard, Toronto, Michigan, and the New School University, and finished his career as the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His over 50 books and monographs cover a wide terrain but from his first historical work, The Vendee (1964), to his last uncompleted manuscript, Cities in World History, his work focused on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, (especially in Europe since 1500). His writings deal with the history of contention but also with urban history and the study of historical migration patterns. His principal works include: The Contentious French (1986), Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1990 (1990), European Revolutions 1492-1992 (1993), Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, AD 1000-1800 (1994), Contention in Great Britain 1758-1834 (1995), and Contentious Performances (2008). A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Ordre des Palmes Academiques, he received numerous international prizes and honorary degrees.
William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University.
William B. Taylor is Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.
