Melissa Bryson is a third year Ph.D. history student at the University of Missouri. She received her B.A. in history from Rutgers University in 2019, and her M.A. in history from Millersville University in 2022. Her research centers around the intellectual and political world of the Anglo-South and their intercolonial connections in the British Atlantic World from the eve of the imperial crisis from the 1760s through the 1790s.

Caleb Blackburn-Johnson is a first year PhD Student in History at Yale University, after recently completing his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, where his senior thesis won the Charles A. Beard Thesis Prize. He currently studies maritime and urban slavery in the eighteenth century British Atlantic, with a specific focus on Colonial New England and its position in and relationship to the wider British and Black Atlantic Worlds.

Dr. Ross Nedervelt is an adjunct professor of history at Florida International University in Miami, where he teaches early American and colonial Caribbean history. His research focuses on maritime border spaces, identity, and security in the Age of Revolutions.

Zachary Kelly is a second-year PhD student from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA with a focus on Atlantic history in the Early Modern era.

Dr. Alexander Goodrich has studied Atlantic World and Bermudian history for eleven years. In 2025, he defended his dissertation on public memory in Bermuda. He is now developing the dissertation into a book manuscript for publication.

Cheryl Packwood is an independent researcher and lawyer who practiced law at Shearman & Sterling in New York. She has worked in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire where she developed an international practice for a major law firm and was the Overseas Representative for Bermuda to the US and the CEO/Deputy Chairman of Business Bermuda. Ms. Packwood has authored many articles for professional magazines, journals, and reviews – covering topics in international business, finance, law, and history. She is the daughter of historian Cyril O. Packwood and Dorothy Packwood.

Clarence V.H. Maxwell presently teaches at Millersville University in Lancaster,Pennsylvania, USA, as assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, the African Diaspora, and the Atlantic World. He most recently co-authored with Theodore Francis II and Alexandra Mairs-Kessler, Prudent Rebels: Bermudians and the First Age of Revolution (Bermuda/Royal Naval Dockyard: National Museum of Bermuda Press, 2019). He serves as assistant editor of the Bermuda Maritime Museum’s Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History and is presently co-Director of Millersville University’s Atlantic World Center.

Theodore is a historian of the African Diaspora focusing on the British Caribbean and African Americans during the post-emancipation century. His work engages race, colonialism, segregation, Black travel, and tourism. Theodore’s research has been utilized by U.S. and Bermudian government bodies to address policy on racial inequity, educational reforms, the renaming of municipal sites, and land grabs. A graduate of Warwick Academy, Morehouse College, and the University of Chicago, he is the author of Prudent Rebels: Bermudians & The First Age of Revolution with Clarence Maxwell and Alexandra Mairs-Kessler. His forthcoming book (contracted by the University of Illinois Press) explores Black internationalism and African American tourism during Bermuda’s desegregation struggle. A career educator, Theodore has served as a tenured associate professor at universities in central and west Texas, developing courses and programs on Caribbean History and Africana Studies, as well as mentoring student organizations. He is currently a professor of History at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.

Alexandra is a historian of the American Revolution in the Atlantic World. Her current work centers on loyalist refugees of the American Revolution and their resettlement in the British Atlantic. She is a contributing author of Prudent Rebels: Bermudians & The First Age of Revolution with Clarence Maxwell and Theodore Francis. Alexandra is currently contributing to projects that focus on integrating primary source research into secondary-ed classrooms.