Court Carney is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he teaches courses on memory, music in America, and Black culture. He is the author of Cuttin’ Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear (Kansas 2009), as well as numerous articles on public memory, popular music, and the American South. In addition, he is the co-editor of a collection of essays on Bob Dylan and setlists to be published in 2023. His current non-music work focuses on race and Civil War memory. He lives in Houston.
Michele Fazio is a professor of literature and the director of the Pembroke REACH program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She co-coordinates the gender studies minor and teaches courses on contemporary U.S. ethnic literature, service-learning, and working-class studies. In 2020, she was awarded the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching–the highest post-secondary award in the state. She co-edited the Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies and has served as past-president of the Working-Class Studies Association. A recipient of a Woody Guthrie Fellowship awarded by the Woody Guthrie Foundation and BMI Music Publishers, she is currently working on a book project exploring the cultural legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Mark F. Fernandez is the Patricia Carlin O’Keefe Distinguished Professor of History at Loyola. He teaches courses on early America, the South, the West, the American hero, and American folk culture. The Loyola Student Alumni Association has twice recognized Dr. Fernandez for meritorious teaching. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Association and a member of the Board of the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. In 2012, he was named the Seventh Annual Woody Guthrie Fellow by the Woody Guthrie Foundation and BMI Music Publishers.
Gustavus Stadler is the William R. Kenan Professor of English at Haverford College where he teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century US literature and popular culture. He is the author of Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020).
Aimee Zoeller was born and resides on the eastside of Indianapolis. She has been the director of sociology at Indiana University Columbus since 2008 and the coordinator of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program since 2012. She relishes teaching across the discipline – from Protest Music in the U.S. to Sociology of Happiness to Gender and Society. Her research centers transformative pedagogy anchored in the work of bell hooks. Through the generous efforts of Aimee’s colleagues, she has been the recipient of numerous teaching and service awards, including Excellence in Diversity, Outstanding Faculty Service, Veteran Faculty Women’s Leadership, Service-Learning Vice Chancellor’s Award, Community Engagement Vice Chancellor’s Award, and is a three time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. She has served as the faculty advisor for the Spectrum and Ukulele Clubs. She is a member of many community organizations, including Arts for AIDS and the Woodruff Place Civic League Board. Her mother is her working-class hero.