Peter Garretson
Dr. Garretson received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and specialized in African, especially North African, History. His thesis was on the History of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. His first teaching position was at the University of Khartoum. He then taught at Brooklyn College and Swarthmore College before coming to Florida State University in 1980. He has taught Middle Eastern History at FSU ever since, except for eight years when he was also the Associate Vice President for International Programs. Contact: pgarretson@fsu.edu
Bawa Satinder Singh
Dr. Bawa Satinder Singh, a specialist on modern India, especially British rule in the subcontinent, received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Panjab (1951 and 1955) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1961 and 1966). He is the author of The Jammu Fox: A Biography of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Kashmir, 1792-1857 (Southern Illinois, 1974). He has edited the Hardinge Letters: The Letters of the First Viscount Hardinge of Lahore to Lady Hardinge and Sir Walter and Lady James, 1844-1847 (Royal Historical Society, 1986) and My Indian Peregrinations: The Private Letters of Charles Stewart, the Future Second Viscount of Lahore, 1844-1847 (Texas Tech, 2001). Dr. Singh is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Nathan Stoltzfus
Nathan Stoltzfus was the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies. He received his Ph.D., M.A. and M.Div, from Harvard University (1993, 1988, and 1984). He received his B.A. from Goshen College. Dr. Stoltzfus taught at Florida State University from 1994 to 2024. He is author or editor of nine books including Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (Yale, 2016). Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest (WW Norton, 1996) was a Wiener Library’s Fraenkel Prize winner and a New Statesman Book of the Year. The book’s German translation, with a foreword from German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, received a Bestenliste prize (1999). He is co-author of Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of: Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (Princeton University, 2001) with Robert Gellately; Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe (Roman and Littlefield, 2006) with Christof Mauch and Doug Wiener; Nazi Crimes and the Law (Cambridge University, 2008) with Henry Friedlander; Protest in Hitler’s “National Community,” Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response (Berghahn, 2015) with Birgit Maier-Katkin; The Power of Populism and People: Resistance and Protest in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2021) with Chris Osmar; Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis(Bloomsbury 2021) with Mordecai Paldiel and Judith Baumel Schwartz. His work has been translated into seven languages and published in The Atlantic Monthly, Der Spiegel, The Jerusalem Post, Die Zeit, The Daily Beast, The American Scholar. He is co-founder with Mordecai Paldiel of the Rosenstrasse Civil Courage Foundation. Contact: stoltzfus.nathan@gmail.com.
Ralph V. Turner
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1962, retired as professor emeritus in 1999. He was named a Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State in 1994. He taught medieval and English history, Renaissance and Reformation and served the History Department for several years as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. His research centers on twelfth-century England, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, their sons Richard Lionheart and John, and their French possessions, their administration of justice and the common law, as well as the transformation of their royal servants into professionals. His studies have resulted in papers presented at conferences in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, some forty articles and seven books. He has written both individual biographies of thirteenth-century figures---King John (1994),The Reign of Richard Lionheart, co-authored with R.R. Heiser (2000), Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and Queen of England (2009)--- and collective biographical studies of royal officials, The Origins of the English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton c. 1176-1239 (1985) and Men Raised from the Dust : Administrative Service and Upward Mobility in Angevin England (1988).