Ilisa Barbash is visual anthropology curator at Harvard University's Peabody Museum and author of Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari (2016).

Molly Rogers is associate director of the Center for the Humanities, New York University, and author of Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (2010).

Curator and photographer Deborah Willis, PhD is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Press, 20221) and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2009), among others. Professor Willis's curated exhibitions include: "Framing Moments in the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts", "Migrations and Meanings in Art", "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits" and "Out of Fashion Photography", among others.