Dr. Dawn Marie Hayes received her Ph.D. in medieval European history from New York University in 1998. An associate professor of history, she teaches broadly on the European Middle Ages while her research focuses on the religious, social and cultural history of western Europe from 1000-1300. She has been a Speaker in the Humanities for the New York Council for the Humanities and a participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars on Gothic architecture in the Ile-de-France and Anglo-Saxon England. Her current research focus is Norman Sicily.

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Dr. Nancy Carnevale is an assistant professor of history who received her Ph.D. from Rutgers in 2000. She teaches courses on the history of immigration, race, and ethnicity in the U.S., Italian American history, women's history, and twentieth-century American history. Her forthcoming book is entitled A New Language, A New World: Italians in the U.S. (University of Illinois Press, 2009). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research is on Italian American and African American relations.