Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984, and clerking for then Judge (now Justice) Stephen Breyer, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in nearly 50 cases—tops among all non-emeritus scholars. He regularly testifies before Congress at the invitation of both parties; and in surveys of judicial citations and/or scholarly citations, he invariably ranks among America’s five most-cited mid-career legal scholars. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award. In 2008 he received the DeVane Medal—Yale’s highest award for teaching excellence. He has written widely for popular publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The Atlantic. He was an informal consultant to the popular TV show, The West Wing, and his constitutional scholarship has been showcased on The Colbert Report, The O’Reilly Factor, and Constitution USA with Peter Sagal. He is the author of dozens of law review articles and several books, including The Constitution and Criminal Procedure(1997), The Bill of Rights (1998—winner of the Yale University Press Governors’ Award), America’s Constitution (2005—winner of the ABA’s Silver Gavel Award), America’s Unwritten Constitution (2012—named one of the year’s 100 best nonfiction books by The Washington Post), The Law of the Land (2015), and The Constitution Today (2016—named one of the year’s top ten nonfiction books by Time magazine).  His most recent book is the landmark work, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. In 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He is Yale’s only currently active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown—the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.   He co-hosts a leading weekly podcast, Amarica’s Constitution, with EverScholar President Andy Lipka.

Professor Amar is well-known to EverScholar participants; many of us have been taught by him in a number of prior programs.  He also sits on EverScholar’s Faculty Advisory Board and is a member of its year-round discussion group.

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He received his B.A. degree from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. He is the author of many works, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. His book Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different was published in 2006, and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was published in 2008. His volume in the Oxford History of the United State entitled Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (2009) was given the Association of American Publishers Award for History and Biography in 2009, the American History Book Prize by the New York Historical Society for 2010, and the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize in 2010. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama and the Churchill Bell by Colonial Williamsburg. In 2011 he also received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award from the Society of American Historians. In 2012 he received an award from the John Carter Brown Library and the John F. Kennedy Medal from the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 2015 he received the Centennial Medal from the Harvard University Graduate School. Professor Wood is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.  He taught in the memorable EverScholar program, “The First American Founding,” in 2021.

Paul Grimstad is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Humanities program and Lecturer in English and Philosophy at Yale University.  As such, he has a key role in EverScholar’s beloved Directed Studies program there.  He writes regularly for The Believer, Bookforum, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, n+1, The Paris Review, Music and Literature, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement and other journals and magazines. His “Miles the Mercurial” was a notable selection for Best American Essays of 2021 (ed. Kathryn Schulz). His next book Interested in Everything and Nothing Else: On the Polymath is under advance contract with Princeton University Press.

He is the author of Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses (Oxford, 2013) which was recently the focus of a symposium in the journal Nonsite, and has contributed chapters to the Oxford Handbook to Edgar Allan Poe, Melville’s Philosophies, Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies, the Oxford History of the Novel, and to forthcoming volumes The Jamesian Mind and The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. While an assistant professor of English at Yale he received the Sarai Ribicoff ’79 teaching prize for “instruction and character that reflect the qualities of independence, innovation, and originality.” He has taught literature and philosophy at NYU, Columbia and Yale.

Benjamin Barasch is a Lecturer in Humanities and English at Yale University and in summer 2024 a visiting professor at Deep Springs College. He is a fellow of the Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center and Berkeley College, of which he is a proud alumnus (BA 2009). He is a literary scholar, having received his PhD from Columbia University in 2019 with a dissertation on the idea of vitality in American literature. At Yale he pursues his humanist vocation through teaching both the Literature and History/Politics tracks of Directed Studies (for which he has lectured on authors including Plutarch, St. Paul, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Nietzsche), foundational English department courses on the epic tradition from Homer to Joyce and American literature from Emerson to Baldwin, and has designed and taught seminars on the nature of value, personal identity in modern literature and philosophy, American Romanticism, and Bob Dylan. A strong believer in the essential value of liberal education, he is to committed to working with a variety of communities beyond undergraduates, from alumni programs (he teaches for both Yale Alumni College and EverScholar) to the Yale Prison Education Initiative, for which he is piloting a great books program in 2024-25. His book in progress, Radical Humanism, a product of his experience as a teacher and student of great texts, explores how fundamental features of our humanity (inwardness, critical reflection, sympathetic imagination, friendship, romantic intimacy) are under threat and offers a proposal for reinvigorating them. To a related end, he is a contributor to and co-editor, with David Bromwich and Bryan Garsten, of a volume of essays by major international scholars, Judgment and Value in the Humanities (forthcoming, Yale University Press). Music is also central to his life and scholarship: a classically trained pianist, Barasch is engaged in ongoing teaching and performance projects on late Beethoven, Charles Ives (he appears on a forthcoming Naxos recording with Orchestra New England), and Bob Dylan.

Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), discusses environmental change, ethnicity, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations, (SAR Press, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity, (Routledge, 2008), and a co-author of  Global Connections (2015), a world history textbook, and Asia Inside Out, (2015-2019), three volumes on inter-Asian connections published by Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea. Most recently, he has published an introduction to environmental history in Chinese, entitled Environmental History: Its Origins and Prospects. (万物并作：中西方环境史的起源与展望), (Sanlian, 2018).  He has taught several EverScholar courses, serves on the EverScholar Faculty Advisory Board, and even attended a two-week long EverScholar course as a student.

Sulmaan Khan holds the Denison Chair in International History and Chinese Foreign Relations at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the author of Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping and Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands. He has written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Economist. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University. He has been a participant in NIC seminars and has spoken on China at INDOPACOM. His new book on the triangular relationship between China, Taiwan, and the United States is forthcoming from Basic Books (US) and Allen Lane (UK and Commonwealth).

Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins. His expertise covers a breathtakingly wide range; broadly speaking, his work regards the relationship between embodied experience and art, particularly literature. His most recent work regards the intersection of sexuality and aesthetics and includes a monograph that was ten years in the making, The Passions of John Addington Symonds (Oxford University Press, 2022), on the Victorian scholar, poet, and essayist responsible for one of the first major studies of same-sex love in Ancient Greece.

Professor Butler’s other books reconstruct the material context of the production and circulation of Roman oratory (The Hand of Cicero, 2002), examine ways in which the physical formats of books shape the meanings and metaphors of the texts they embody (The Matter of the Page, 2011), follow the connections between literature and the senses into underlying questions about the nature of human experience (Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses, 2013, co-edited with Alex Purves), explore the role of the voice in the making and reading of classical literature, with insights drawn from later analogues (The Ancient Phonograph, 2015), consider how the study of a distant, buried, and never fully recoverable past reflects and enables other aspects of our relationship with our lives and our world (Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception, edited, 2016), and survey the soundscapes of the ancient world (Sound and the Ancient Senses, co-edited with Sarah Nooter, 2019). He is also editing and translating the Latin Letters of Renaissance humanist Angelo Poliziano (vol. 1, 2006) for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, for which series he serves as Associate Editor. From 2010 to 2022 he co-edited with Alastair Blanshard and beloved EverScholar faculty leader Emily Greenwood, the series Classics After Antiquity for Cambridge University Press.

Recent book chapters and journal articles include “Cicero’s Grief” (Arion, 2018); “Things Left Unsaid” (I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 2018); “The Youth of Antiquity: Reception, Homosexuality, Alterity” (Classical Receptions Journal, 2019); “Is the Voice a Myth? A Re-Reading of Ovid,” in A Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality, ed. Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin (2019); “What Was the Voice?” in The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (2019); “Cicero the Barbarian” (PMLA, 2020); “Dogs and Phonographs” (Parallax, 2020); “Animal Listening” (Journal of International Voice Studies, 2021); and “Farewell Freud: Orphic Trans/formations of Voice” (American Imago, 2022). Forthcoming articles include “Classical Reception and Newtonian Force” (Classical Antiquity); “Queer Philology,” in Ella Haselswerdt, Sara Lindheim, and Kirk Ormand, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory; and “Animal Listening” (revised and expanded version), in Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli, eds., Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and the Environmental Imagination” (Bloomsbury). With Sarah Nooter he is editing a special issue of Classical Philology, “Philology Transfigured,” based on a conference of the same title held at Hopkins in the spring of 2022.

Professor Butler is also the founder and director of the Classics Research Lab (CRL). With Gabrielle Dean he created and directed the lab’s first initiative, the John Addington Symonds Project (JASP).

Professor Butler received his PhD from Columbia University (2000) and has held residential fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, the Villa I Tatti in Florence, and the Getty Villa in Malibu, as well as an invited residency at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) in Berlin. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2015. He had previously taught at the University of Bristol, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Lila Yawn is Director of the Master of Arts in Art History and Associate Professor at John Cabot University in Rome, where she teaches courses in codicology and palaeography, research methods, and the history of medieval art.  She specializes in the history of medieval art in Italy and in perceptions of the Middle Ages today. Her recent publications and papers consider how commercial scribes in eleventh-century Tuscany and Latium organized their work; why Romans in the Middle Ages depicted dreams and visions on the exteriors of churches; how a jolly medieval-themed pageant in Assisi originated in a Fascist project; and the impact of papal schisms on medieval Roman visual culture and urban space, the subject of a conference at JCU.

Since 2010 she has been an Advisor for Medieval Studies at the American Academy in Rome, where she won the Rome Prize Fellowship in 1996 for her doctoral research on the Giant Bible of the Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, Perugia (Ms. L59). Her past publications focus on the working methods of medieval scribes and miniaturists; papal schisms and their effects on the medieval Roman cityscape; dreamscapes on church exteriors; the physical and legendary transformations of the Colosseum in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; the history of magic; festive life in modern Umbria; and the perception and uses of the Middle Ages in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In 2013-2016 she served as curator of research and iconography for William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments, a colossal work of contemporary art and performance along the Tiber, and in 2018 co-organized the first trilingual edition of the international biennial conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World” in Rome. Her most recent publications are the co-edited volume Middle Ages without Borders, with Pierre Savy and Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Rome: École françise de Rome, 2021) and a new study of the Crusader missal of Acre in Gli Ordini di Terrasanta: questioni aperte, nuove acquisizioni (secoli XII-XVI), ed. Arnaud Baudin, Sonia Merli, and Mirko Santanicchia, (Perugia: Fabrizio Fabbri, 2021). She also has extensive experience bringing her academic expertise to bear in the travel context, from University Rome-Florence travel study programs to the Smithsonian Institution.

Lawrence Manley has taught at Yale since 1976, and has taught EverScholars to great acclaim in several prior programs, including “The Renaissance,” and “The Dark Arts of Civilization.” His many fields of interest include the poetry, prose, and drama of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, with emphasis on literature and society, theater history and performance studies, intellectual history, and the classical foundations of the English literary and critical traditions. He is the author of Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (1995) and Convention, 1500-1750 (1980), and the editor of London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology (1986) and The Cambridge Companion to London in English Literature (2011). He has contributed to The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, the Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Drama, and The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia. His book with Sally-Beth MacLean, Lord Strange’s Men and Their Plays (2014), was awarded the Phylliis Goodhart Gordan Prize by the Renaissance Society of America. Current subjects of research include Erasmus and More on war and peace, the manuscript of A tradegie called Oedipus, the great hall screen at Lathom, Lancashire, and Shakespeare’s love duets.

On his recent retirement from active faculty at Yale, the following tribute was published:

Larry Manley, B.A. Dartmouth College, Ph.D. Harvard University, faculty member at Yale since 1976: You are recognized by your colleagues at Yale, and beyond, as a truly learned man, an exemplar of the kind of scholar who helps make a university great.

Although you are widely versed in theater history and performance studies as well as in the history of literary criticism, you are best known as one of the world’s great authorities on Renaissance culture and thought, on early modern London and its literature, and on the early history of Elizabethan theater culture—three very different subjects on which you have written three powerful books.

All these books are significant, but if we were to highlight one it would likely be Literature and Culture in Early Modern London, your compendious, unrivaled story of the one-hundred-fifty-year expansion of London from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the English Revolution, in which the metropolis would shortly become the most populous city in Europe. It explores with rich detail and encyclopedic learning the different communities of London: court and capital, guildsmen and merchants, the urban poor from the countryside who swelled the city and who died there of dearth and pestilence in alarming numbers. You show how writers responded to this rapidly changing urban scene and its diverse public through pageant scripts, foundation stories, city-descriptions, moralizing pamphlets, satires, and, perhaps above all, through plays that moved between public and private theaters and showed Londoners to themselves. It is the exemplary work in the field, and it sets the highest standard for other scholars.

You have taught widely and never stodgily – you were one of the first technologically savvy English professors to incorporate video performances into your lectures, and this year, as one of your final courses, you co-taught “Global Shakespeares: Race, Gender, and the Idea of the Human.” You are perhaps best known, however, for your popular and spellbinding Shakespeare survey course that introduced generations of Yale students to the magic of the plays and poetry. Your students at first saw you as a quiet, serious professor. But they soon learned to pay close attention since you are a witty speaker with a fine sense of comic delivery whose spare utterances would often leave them laughing. Since you are a man of surprises, they might be unsurprised to hear another thing about you: when playing fighter pilot video games was not enough, you took flying lessons and acquired your license. You actually fly airplanes!

Renaissance Studies at Yale would not exist without you. You drafted the agreements with other departments, one by one, that spelled out the requirements for the joint degree, and you taught the Renaissance Studies core course. You gave the program a new and successful start; it has produced some forty Ph.D.s and has been a model for interdisciplinary studies in the humanities.

On the Humanities Divisional Committee, where you helped deliberate hirings and promotions, you were well known as an ecumenical presence, reliably wise, balanced, and dispassionate. The same was true in your home department. As one colleague put it, “Larry can be counted on to emphasize how well people think regardless of what they think.” You were often chair of search committees, and all of your colleagues looked forward to your reports. They felt that after you had summed up the candidates’ capabilities, they had been given a lucid education in the whole field. One colleague’s reaction to these reports was invariably the same. After listening, he would turn to others in the room and say about you, “Let’s just hire him!” Yale is certainly glad and lucky that it did.

Steven B. Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns, the relation of religion and politics, and theories of representative government.

His best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989), Spinoza, Liberalism, and Jewish Identity (1997), Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003), Reading Leo Strauss (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His Modernity and its Discontents, was widely praised, as was his latest book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln.

He has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and was a lead professor in the April, 2022 course, “Montaigne and the Art of Living.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group.

Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), discusses environmental change, ethnicity, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations, (SAR Press, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity, (Routledge, 2008), and a co-author of  Global Connections (2015), a world history textbook, and Asia Inside Out, (2015-2019), three volumes on inter-Asian connections published by Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea. Most recently, he has published an introduction to environmental history in Chinese, entitled Environmental History: Its Origins and Prospects. (万物并作：中西方环境史的起源与展望), (Sanlian, 2018).

Steffen Rimner is presently Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. He previously taught at Columbia University and for the International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Born in Germany, he studied at the University of Konstanz and at Yale University, before receiving his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University where he was the John Clive Fellow and affiliated with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He specializes in the social, ideological political and transnational history of modern East Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on China’s and Japan’s changing places in international society.

His first book is Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control, published by Harvard University Press in 2018. It charts the history of mobilization against the opium trade in China, India and Japan, which led to the global drug control regime under the League of Nations. He published on the policy relevance of international public opinion in Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020), on the relevance of international higher education to international cooperation, in Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), on human trafficking and the foundations of the Qing dynasty’s foreign service in Journal of Global History and on the politics of intercultural criticism and polarization in the Journal of the British Academy. He is currently preparing his second monograph on Sino-American relations in a global context since the 1870s for Harvard University Press.

Zaib un Nisa Aziz is a historian of global and imperial history with a focus on Modern South Asia and British History with particular interests in in histories of decolonization, labour, and internationalism. She is Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern British Empire the University of South Florida, Tampa. She received her PhD in Global History from Yale University in 2022. Currently, she is working on her first monograph, tentatively titled, Nations Ascendant: The Global Struggle Against Empire and The Making of our World. This work traces the origins and politics of an international community of colonial activists, thinkers and campaigners and shows how they came to share ideas about universal decolonization and the end of empires in the aftermath of the First World War and Bolshevik Revolution. Drawing from over twenty-five archives spread around ten cities, the book will  show the existence of a global public sphere, whose members though not always proximate considered themselves as part of a common political community striving against imperialism. Her published work includes first article “Passages from India: Indian Anti Colonial Activism in Exile 1905-1920” published by Historical Research and  “Songs of Sisterhood: Feminist Political Practice Between Empire and Internationalism” with Gender and History which came out in August 2021. Her forthcoming publications include a chapter on radical work of Asian, European, and Latin American figures in post-revolutionary Mexico City in the early 20th century in A Global History of Revolutions published by the French publishing house Editions La Découverte and a chapter on entangled history of the internationalist proletarian movement and the anti-colonial movement in British India for an edited volume of transnational anticolonialism being published by Cambridge University Press She is also one of the editors of a forthcoming special volume on a global history of decolonization with the journal Humanity. 

Antoine Prost is the greatest living French historian of the Great War and of 20th century French History.He currently is Professor Emeritus at University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne.  He was President of the French Commission on the Centenary of the Great War (2012-19). Between 1969 and 1979, Prost held a Professorship at the University of Orleans, then at the university of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1979-1998).  He also led the History Research Center of the Social Movements and Trade Unionism, later the Centre of Social History of the 20th Century.  He is president of the association Le Mouvement social (which publishes the magazine of the same name) and of the Association des Amis du Maitron (2005-2012). He is a member of the board of directors of the University of Orléans.  Since 2012 he has been a member of the Committee for Prefectural History.  He also chairs the Scientific Council of the Verdun Memorial and the historical and educational committee of the Resistance Foundation.  He is the co-author of Verdun 1916, une histoire franco-allemande (2015) and the author of Les Anciens Combattants et la société française (1914-1939) (1977) and Les Français de la Belle Époque (2019).

He has been awarded the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2018, having served as a knight since 1984. He is also a commander of the National Order of Merit, and of the Order of Academic Palms.

Jay M. Winter, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His other interests include remembrance of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institutions of war, British popular culture in the era of the Great War and the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Winter is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Rene Cassin et les droits de l’homme (Paris: Fayard), co-authored with Antoine Prost, which won the prize for best book of the year at the Blois History festival in 2011; Socialism and the Challenge of War, Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18, The Great War and the British People, The Fear of Population Decline, The Experience of World War I, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century, and most recently most recently, War beyond words: Languages of remembrance from the Great War to the present. He has edited or co-edited 13 books and contributed more than 40 book chapters to edited volumes. He is co-director of the project on Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919.

Jay was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,” which won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a Producers Guild of America Award for best television documentary in 1997. Professor Winter earned his BA from Columbia University and his PhD and DLitt degrees from Cambridge University. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2000 and then the Yale faculty one year later. At Yale, his courses included lectures on Europe in the age of total war, and on modern British history, as well as seminars on history and memory and European identities. Prof. Winter has presented named lectures at Dartmouth College, Union University, Indiana University and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Graz in 2010.

He has taught in several EverScholar-model courses to great acclaim, has been nominated for the Lamar Award for alumni service, and is a beloved leader of many programs and historical trips including Turkey, Normandy, and the United Kingdom. 

Julian Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Jackson is one of the most distinguished and expert authorities on twentieth-century France. In 2010 he was made a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.

His early-career works addressed the crises in 1930’s France, including The Politics of Depression France 1932–1936, and The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy 1934–1938.  Later works, on 1940s including the war years, included France: The Dark Years (2001, shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award) and The Fall of France (2003, winner of the Wolfson History Prize).

His magisterial life of Charles de Gaulle, A Certain Idea of France, was published to universal acclaim in June 2018 by Allen Lane / Penguin; it was the most honored historical book of the year in Europe. A Certain Idea of France won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, the American Library in Paris Award and the Elizabeth Longford award for historical biography, and was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize.

John Horne is one of the leading cultural historians of the First World War, and has largely spearheaded the recovery of the history of the Irish in the 1914-18 conflict, and this only begins the list of his prolific scholarship and contributions.  He was Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and remains Fellow Emeritus. He directed the Centre for War Studies, of which he was co-founder.

Part English, part Australian, he grew up and was educated in both countries. Following a BA (Hons.) in History at the University of Oxford (Balliol College), he obtained his doctorate in contemporary history at the University of Sussex in 1980. He was the first Director of European Studies in TCD from 1992-1994, designing the programme and building a network of ERASMUS academic exchanges; was Head of the Department of History from 2001 to 2003. In 1994-5, he was an associate member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in March 1997 and May 2005 he was an associate member of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. 

Since 2003 he has been a member of the Board of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, which is the most important museum of the Great War on the former western front and the only one with a major research centre. He is a founder member of EURHISTXX, a consortium of universities and research institutes that explores transnational approaches to the contemporary history of Europe. In 2005, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy and also invited to deliver the annual Marc Bloch lecture in the Paris City Hall by the EHESS (http://cmb.ehess.fr). He has been Senior Visiting Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany; Visiting Olivers Smithies Fellow at Balliol College; Leverhulme Visting Professor of History at the University of Oxford (affiliated to St Antony’s College). During the centenary of the Great War he served as a member of the French Mission Nationale pour le Centenaire de la Grande Guerre.

He has published a number of books and over 100 articles and chapters in edited books on the history of the labour movement, social history and on the comparative and transnational history of the Great War. Among his publications are: Labour at War. France and Britain, 1914-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991); (ed) De Gaulle and Twentieth Century France (London: Edward Arnold, 1994); (ed.), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997); with A. Kramer, ‘German Atrocities’, 1914. A History of Denial (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001); (ed.) A Companion to World War One (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); (ed.), Vers la guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915 (Paris: Tallandier, 2010); (ed., with Robert Gerwarth), War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). German Atrocities won the Fraenkel Prize (Institute for Contemporary History, London) and has been published in German and French.

He has contributed to the recovery of the history of the Irish in the First World War. To that end, he organized a series of lectures on national radio in Ireland (RTE 1) on what was then still a controversial subject. These were published as Our War: Ireland and the Great War (Dublin: RTE/Royal Irish Academy, 2008, new edition 2012).

He has been involved with innumerable research projects including a two-year collaborative research project on ‘Paramilitary Violence after the Great War: towards a Global Perspective’ ; was the Principal Investigator in TCD on a project with three other universities;‘Making War, Mapping Europe: Militarized Cultural Encounters, 1792-1920,’; a collaborative project with EURHISTXX on the three post-war periods of 20th century European history (after the two world wars and the Cold War); and an iconographic study of symbolic monuments to the nation across Europe between 1840 and 1914. Each of these is an experiment in writing the transnational history of Europe.

He taught undergraduates, Masters, and Doctoral students extensively during his career. In 2007 he co-founded the Centre for War Studies at TCD, was the first director until 2010 and was director again from 2013 to the effective end of the Centre in 2016. He has worked in radio in Belgium, France, Ireland and the UK and participated in several historical documentaries for television, in Belgium, Ireland, the UK and the USA.

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984, and clerking for then Judge (now Justice) Stephen Breyer, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 40 cases—tops in his generation, and indeed among all active scholars. He regularly testifies before Congress at the invitation of both parties; and in surveys of judicial citations and/or scholarly citations, he invariably ranks among America’s five most-cited mid-career legal scholars. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award. In 2008 he received the DeVane Medal—Yale’s highest award for teaching excellence. He has written widely for popular publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The Atlantic. He was an informal consultant to the popular TV show, The West Wing, and his constitutional scholarship has been showcased on The Colbert Report, The O’Reilly Factor, and Constitution USA with Peter Sagal. He is the author of dozens of law review articles and several books, including The Constitution and Criminal Procedure(1997), The Bill of Rights (1998—winner of the Yale University Press Governors’ Award), America’s Constitution (2005—winner of the ABA’s Silver Gavel Award), America’s Unwritten Constitution (2012—named one of the year’s 100 best nonfiction books by The Washington Post), The Law of the Land (2015), and The Constitution Today (2016—named one of the year’s top ten nonfiction books by Time magazine). In 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He is Yale’s only currently active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown—the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.

Professor Amar is well-known to EverScholar participants; many of us have been taught by him in a number of prior programs.  He also sits on EverScholar’s Faculty Advisory Board and is a member of its year-round discussion group.

Steven B. Smith has taught at Yale since 1984. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns, the relation of religion and politics, and theories of representative government.

His best known publications include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism (1989), Spinoza, Liberalism, and Jewish Identity (1997), Spinoza’s Book of Life (2003), Reading Leo Strauss (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) and Political Philosophy (2012). His newly released book, Modernity and its Discontents, is now available. He is also the Co-Director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YSCRI) that focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world.  He is also the editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln.

He has received several academic awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa, but is most proud of receiving the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. He is a die-hard Yankees fan and hopes to be able to play for the team in the next life.  He has taught EverScholar participants on several occasions in the past – and is also a lead professor in the October, 2020 course, “The Montaigne Experience.”  Professor Smith sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board and participates actively in its year-round discussion group.

Jing Tsu, a 2016 Guggenheim fellow, specializes in modern Chinese literature & culture and Sinophone studies, from the 19th century to the present. Her research spans literature, linguistics, science and technology, typewriting and digitalization, diaspora studies, migration, nationalism, and theories of globalization. At Yale she offers graduate seminars on sympathy, world Sinophone literature, and approaches to East Asian intellectual and literary history. From mainland China to Southeast Asia, her area of expertise covers the Sinophone world at large. She offers a regular interdisciplinary course, “China in the World,” which features six contemporary topics in historical time. Tsu has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard), the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton).  She is currently writing a new book on what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the western alphabet, to appear with Riverhead at Penguin Random House.

Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), discusses environmental change, ethnicity, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations, (SAR Press, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity, (Routledge, 2008), and a co-author of  Global Connections, a world history textbook forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and Asia Inside Out, three volumes on inter-Asian connections forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea.  Professor Perdue has taught in EverScholar model courses in the past, sits on the EverScholar Advisory Board, and participates actively in the EverScholar Google Group.