As a Professor of History, and Associate Dean, in the College of Arts and Sciences, at Northern Kentucky University, with almost thirty five years of academic experience at the university level, Dr. Eric R. Jackson has taught numerous classes in the fields of American and African American History, Race Relations and Peace Studies. Dr. Jackson has also published a wide array of books, books reviews, articles, etc. in many local, regional, national, and international journals, such as the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Negro Education, Ohio History, the International Journal of World Peace, and the Journal of Pan African Studies.)  With over fifty publications, Dr. Jackson recently completed an online book/website on African Americans in Cincinnati (Oxford University Press, 2015 http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/archive/0216/index.jsp), co-authored a book titled Cincinnati’s Underground Railroad (Arcadia Publishing, Inc. 2014) and co-authored another book titled Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement of African American Parents (Rowman and Littlefield, May 2015), Let Freedom Ring for Everyone:  (Cognella, 2020), and Introduction to Black Studies (University of Kentucky Press, 2023 – Thomas D. Clark Medallion Book Award 2023). Additionally, he is working on a new book titled Full of Faith – Full of Hope: The History and Legacy of the Underground Railroad in Kentucky (University of Kentucky Press, 2025) as well as a second edition of Let Freedom Ring for Everyone (Summer 2025). He also served as Interim Editor and the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Pan African Studies. In 2017 he was awarded the “Second International World Civility Award” from I-Change Nations. Dr. Jackson also is the President of the Boone County Public Library Board of Trustees (Kentucky) and Board member of the Friends of Music Hall (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Dr. Nathalie Kasselis is a professor of Spanish at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She earned her PhD in Spanish Literature, with a focus on Spanish Medieval Literature, from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. In recent years, Professor Kasselis has redirected her research and teaching interests towards Translation and Interpretation. She received a certificate in these fields from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and established a specialization in these areas within the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Central Washington University.

Professor Kasselis is the author of “Los juegos del amor y del lenguaje en la obra de Antón de Montoro, Rodrigo Cota y Fernando de Rojas,” published by Editorial Pliegos in Spain. She also co-authored, with Professor Stella Moreno, a Spanish translation of Philip Garrison’s “Because I Don’t Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life,” which was published by the Secretary of Culture of Morelia, Mexico. In addition, she translated Julien Sibre’s French play “Le Repas des fauves” into Spanish. Her translation was published by the Journal of the Spanish Theatre Directors Association (ADE).

Professor Kasselis has led six different study-abroad programs in her native France and taught Spanish language courses at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She also conducted a graduate course on French medieval literature at the University of Pécs in Hungary. In the last three years, she launched a virtual exchange with two universities in Medellín, Colombia. In March 2024, she organized a study abroad trip to Medellin for CWU students.

ESUMER, one of her university partners in Medellín, received a grant from the Colombian government to invite an American professor to teach English to underprivileged young Colombians. Professor Kasselis was invited and accepted the opportunity, where she taught English to twenty-five students for two weeks last November. Her collaborative efforts with Colombia are now organized under the Study-E-learn-Language-Life-Abroad (STELLA) Initiative.

His research includes one textbook contribution, two book chapters, several peer reviewed journal articles and many international and national conference presentations. His primary areas of interest are Business Education, Management, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, Leadership, and Organizational Development.

He currently teaches undergraduate students in the Management and Business Administration Departments within the School of Business at Flagler College. Dr. Barclay also serves as the Coordinator for the International Business Program. His international teaching and research experiences include working in Australia, Finland, China, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, and England. In addition, he is the faculty advisor to the Sigma Beta Delta business fraternity and faculty liaison to the Business Advisory Board.

Prior to his current position, he served as the Department Chair for the School of Business at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In this job he worked closely with both undergraduate students and graduate students. He also taught in the MBA program at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dr. Barclay has received many accolades throughout his career. He was honored to earn the 2012 Jentz Fellowship at the University of Colorado, Graduate School of Banking; the 2014 Online Consortium Program Grant for online programing; the 2015 Confucius Institute Beijing Delegate Travel Grant; and the 2019 New Faculty Member of the Year award at Flagler College.

In addition to his academic service, he is a proud relief foster parent for Seamark Ranch in Jacksonville, Florida.  Prior to this, he spent several years as a board member for the University of Minnesota Federal Credit Union and the University of Minnesota Financial System User Network. In addition, he worked as a Training Development Coordinator for the University of Minnesota and is a proud veteran of the US Coast Guard.

Dr. Skoog has conducted national choral festivals at the Kennedy Center, and in 2017 had his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall. Internationally, he has conducted choral festivals in Dublin, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna, Rome, Lucerne, and Prague in the prestigious Dvorak Festival. He is the author of several articles for Choral Journal, the Music Educators Journal, and the Cambridge Scholars Press. His most significant publication is a book entitled The Choral Works of Jennifer Higdon, Choral Kaleidoscope, published in 2021 by Cambridge Scholars Press, and he is currently under contract with them for a publication entitled The Choral Works of Dave Brubeck. Bill is the father of three grown children and has four grandchildren. He resides in Shelby County, Tennessee with his wife Elaine.

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is Professor of History at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada, where she teaches the history of health care, Canadian and American women’s history, and North American Popular Culture. Dr. Warsh served as long-term Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, and co-Editor of Gender & History.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Queen’s University at Kingston, Dr. Warsh was an Associated Medical Services/Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow at Duke University, and the inaugural recipient of the Vancouver Island University Distinguished Researcher Award. In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for her contributions to Canadian medical history, and currently serves as Chair of the RSC Academy of Arts & Humanities, Fellows Nomination Committee.