Team

Heather Ann Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a renowned storyteller and expert on the history, politics, and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. She earned her PhD from Princeton University, and has consulted on numerous documentaries, motion pictures, and tv series. Her writing can be found in the New York Times, Newsweek,…

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction and an expert in African American history and culture from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Dunbar received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University.…

Becky Nicolaides is an expert on the history of the 20th century, and author of several award-winning studies of suburban life in America.  After receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia University, she became a tenured faculty member at UCSD, then moved into full-time consulting for film, television, documentaries, podcasts, cultural resources, and public history projects. She…

Jim Downs is the author of Sick From Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction; Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation and Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery and War Transformed Medicine. He served as the consulting editor for the New York Times Bestseller The Intellectual Devotional…

Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. She received her B.A. at the University of Michigan, M.A. at the New School for Social Research, and Ph.D. at Stanford University. She is the author of Arabs and Muslim in the Media: Race and Representation…

Anne-Marie Angelo is a screenwriter and a historian of the modern US, UK, and Middle East. She has worked as a writer and historical consultant to develop series for Warner, HBO, and Viaplay. She co-wrote the series concept and led historical research for a period dramedy series that was awarded High-End Series Drama Development Funding…

Christienna Fryar is a writer and historian of Britain, the Caribbean, and the British Empire. At the heart of her work is the conviction that Britain and its history cannot be understood in isolation from the Caribbean. A former academic, she was the founding convener of the MA Black British History, the first taught masters…

Academic Television Academy member Hope Latta is an aspiring historian of Cold War acoustic physics with a focus on submarine search sounds. She is currently working on a Master’s in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University. In 2022-2023, Hope was a Warner Bros. Discovery diversity writing program recipient and developed two projects there. TV…

Dr Joanne Paul is an award-winning historian, consultant and writer with a passion for sharing her research on Renaissance and Tudor history. She has consulted for television with TLC and Amazon and appeared on a variety of programmes, including for BBC, Channel 5 and TLC. Having published academically on topics including Shakespeare, the English Civil…

Elizabeth Hinton is a historian of American inequality and is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration. She earned her B.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a professor of history, African American Studies, and law at Yale. Hinton’s articles and op-eds can be…