Ann Burgess is a Professor of  Psychiatric Nursing at the Connell School of Nursing. Her areas of court-recognized expertise include: rape trauma syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, offender typology, elder abuse, and crime classification. Her most recent research has focused on Missing and Murdered Native American Girls and Women.

Dr. Ruth Langer is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Comparative Theology Area of Boston College’s Theology Department and Associate Director of its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, which she helped to found. She is also an ordained rabbi. Her scholarship addresses two primary areas: the history of Jewish liturgy and ritual, and Christian-Jewish relations.

One book, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (Oxford University Press, 2012), as well as numerous articles, combine these two interests, tracing the censorship and transformation of Jewish prayers that were understood, often correctly, as critical of Christianity. Her current research discusses the changing expressions of Jewish liturgical memory, especially as Jews sought acceptance in western society.

Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski is the Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. He is a scholar of Christian-Jewish relations and comparative theology. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The More Torah, The More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot and the forthcoming book, Resisting Anti-Judaism: Practices of Christian Solidarity. 

Beyond the academy, he serves on the Committee on Religion and the Holocaust of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a priest ordained in the Episcopal Church, serving at Christ Church in Cambridge, MA and as the ecumenical and interreligious relations officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

Peter Skerry is professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He has been a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.  Skerry has written for The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and National Review.  His books include Counting on the Census: Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics and Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority. 

He is currently completing Restoring Realism to US Immigration Politics and Policy. Skerry is chairman of the Immigration Policy Roundtable of the Citizens Commission on Immigration, an initiative of Braver Angels, a national citizens movement seeking to depolarize American politics.

Bryan Ranger is the Ferrante Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Boston College, with courtesy appointments in the Connell School of Nursing and the Global Public Health and the Common Good Program. He directs the Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Lab, where his research focuses on developing accessible ultrasound technologies and AI methods for global health. He also conducts research in engineering education and teaches in the Human-Centered Engineering program.

Professor Ranger previously served as a Program Officer in the Global Health Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and BSE/MSE degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Stanton Wortham is the Charles F. Donovan, SJ, Dean at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. He served for ten years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Berkowitz Professor at the Penn Graduate School of Education. He was a W.T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow, and is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow and an elected member of the National Academy of Education. 

He has received the AERA Early Career Research Award, the Penn Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Sapir Book Prize. At Boston College he is implementing a vision of holistic, formative education (bc.edu/tlab).

Marjorie Howes is Professor of English and Irish studies at Boston College. She researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish literature, and has interests in feminist, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies. She is the author of Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History (2006) and Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (1996), and the co-editor of The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision (2023), Irish Literature in Transition (6 vols., 2020), Yeats and Afterwords (2014), The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (2006), and Semicolonial Joyce (2000). 

She has helped curate six exhibitions for the McMullen Museum: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts (2026); Martin Parr: Time and Place (2022); The Irish Arts & Crafts Movement: Making it Irish (2016); Rural Ireland: The Inside Story (2012); Literary Lives (2010); and Eire-Land (2003).

Deoksoon Kim is a Professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development and Director of the Transformative Education Lab. Her research focuses on second language literacy, technology-enhanced teacher education, language learning in digitally mediated environments, and formative education online. She has published in AERA Open, Computers and Education, Language Learning Journal, International Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Second Language Writing, and the Journal of Educational Computing Research. 

Current projects include: collaborations with the Lemelson-MIT Program on invention-based science curricula, research on the CityConnects student support model, and digital storytelling design studies with middle school students. 

She’s received honors from the Journal of Second Language Writing and other organizations, and led research and professional development across South Korea, the UK, Canada, and the US.

Nancy Netzer is the Inaugural Robert L. and Judith Winston Director of the McMullen Museum of Art and Professor of Art History in the Department of Art, Art History and Film at Boston College. She teaches courses on medieval art of the first millennium and the history and philosophy of museums from the classical period to the present. 

She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and currently heads the Museum Studies concentration within the department’s Art History major.  She has served as chair of the board of Mass Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).