All Experts
Dr. James Hardin
Field: Archaeology
Topics: archaeology, ceramic analysis, Bronze and Iron-Age cultures of Syria-Palestine
Bio / Description:Beginning from his years as an undergraduate at Mississippi State University, Jimmy Hardin has participated widely in archaeological fieldwork, both in the southeastern and southwestern United States and at numerous sites in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan. He has been involved with the Lahav Research Project's work at Tel Halif in Israel since 1986 and is a member of the Project's Phase III Field…
Alex Hobson
Field: War, Power, International Affairs
Topics: middle eastern history, united states history, terrorism, war on terror
Bio / Description:Dr. Hobson is a historian of 20th and 21st century international affairs who specializes in the history of ideas, the history of emotions, and in U.S. and Middle East history. His book “Chains of Vengeance: The United States, the Middle East, and the Wars of Terrorism, 1967-2021” examines the rise of vengeance in U.S.-Middle East relations in the latter decades…
Kimberly Kelly
Field: Sociology, Gender Studies
Topics: reproductive politics , social movements, white Christian nationalism, qualitative methods
Bio / Description:Kimberly Kelly is Professor of Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. She studies the intersections of religion and reproductive politics, focusing upon abortion activism in the United States. Her previous work addressed the crisis pregnancy center movement, ‘post abortion syndrome,’ and the diffusion of religious ideology into public policy and appears in…
Andrew Lang
Field: u.s. civil war era, nineteenth-century united states
Topics: u.s. south, american war and society
Bio / Description:Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America and the U. S. Civil War Era. His most recent book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021), is published in the University of North Carolina Press’s landmark series, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Prof. Lang serves on the…