Participants

Henry Abraham,Ph.D., is the author of Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States. A renowned Constitutional scholar, he has authored eleven additional books and is the winner of the 2007 DAR Americanism Medal. He is James Hart Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at UVa.

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Eric Abrahamson, co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, is professor of management at Columbia University's School of Business and the author of Change Without Pain.

Kenneth Ackerman is the author of Young J. Edgar; Boss Tweed; Dark Horse; and The Gold Ring. He served for over 25 years in senior posts on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. He practices law in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Ackerman is the author Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. She writes for National Geographic magazine and the New York Times and is the author of two previous books.

Kenneth Adams is Chief of the Upper Mattaponi Tribe. He coordinated a number of public programs during the Jamestown 2007 commemoration. He serves as Director of United Indians of Virginia and sits on the board of Bacone College, a school in Oklahoma formerly attended by many Virginia Indian students.

Paul Alkebulan, author of Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party, is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He is an assistant Professor of History at Virginia State University.

John Amos teaches English at St. Anne's Belfield in Charlottesville. He is a graduate of UVa and a resident of the town of Orange. His essays appear regularly in the Orange County Review and the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus, was born in Winchester, Virginia. After 40 years as a reporter, and magazine editor, he now writes books and runs the American Expatriate Cocktail Research Station in Belize, Central America.

Jeremy D. Bailey, author of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power, is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, where he also teaches in the Honors College.

Dawn Bailiff, author of Notes from a Minor Key: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Healing, was a concert pianist hailed by Leonard Bernstein for her artistry. She has become a translator, professor, disability advocate, and author since her diagnosis of MS.

John Baldwin, whose book, Last Flag Down, has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, is a former Charlottesville resident, and nephew of late UVa Professor Whittle Johnston - namesake of the Civil War Hero Lt. Conway Whittle, the book's central character.

Brooks Miles Barnes, author of The Gallows on the Marsh: Crime and Punishment on the Chesapeake, 1906, is Director of Information Services at the Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, Virginia. He is a member of the Board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Anne B. Barriault, author of Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, has a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from UVa. She is a writer-editor with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and director of Art on the Air, VMFA's public radio modules.

Dan Barry is the author of City Lights, a collection of his New York Times columns, and Pull Me Up, about his Irish-American upbringing, his start in journalism and his struggle with cancer. He writes a column for the Times called "This Land."

Neal Bascomb is the author of Red Mutiny as well as The Perfect Mile, a New York Times bestseller. A former editor and journalist, he is at work on a narrative history of the capture of Adolf Eichmann. He also writes occasionally for the New York Times.