Chronicle Authors

François Furstenberg is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew Ross is a professor at New York University, the secretary of the NYU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and a co-founder of the Debt Collective. His most recent book is Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing.

Steven Conn is a professor of history at Miami University, in Ohio, and helps run the project Picturing Black History, in collaboration with Getty Images.

Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, which was published in a revised 20th-anniversary edition by the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2022.

Debra W. Stewart is a senior fellow at the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago and president emerita of the Council of Graduate Schools.

Mitch Gerber, senior copy editor, joined The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1995.

Hollis Robbins is dean of arts and humanities at Sonoma State University.

Heather Steffen is an affiliate scholar at the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis.

Holden Thorp is editor in chief of the Science family of journals. He was previously provost of Washington University in St. Louis and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.