Jeanne Theoharis, is an assistant professor in the department of African studies at Brooklyn College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and held a two-year appointment as visiting assistant professor at Michigan. She has written numerous articles on the civil rights movement in the North and South and the politics of race in contemporary America, and is co-editing FREEDOM NORTH: CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLES OUTSIDE OF THE SOUTH, 1940-1980 with Komozi Woodard and Matthew Countryman, to be published in the fall.
Athan Theoharis is a professor of history at Marquette University, a specialist on twentieth-century U.S. history with a particular research interest in McCarthyism, federal surveillance policy, and the FBI. He has published extensively and has been the recipient of numerous research grants and awards. His most recent publications have focused on the FBI.