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 has served as a consultant on numerous film, podcast, and public history projects. She has consulted on documentary, television series, and feature films in development, she was a producer on the podcast Blood, Sweat and Rockets: The Suicide Squad (NPR LAist), and has collaborated on an array of History Studio projects.  Becky has…

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…

Dr. Chris Kempshall is a public historian and author who specialises in the First World War, the portrayal of history in computer games, and the use of history in the Star Wars franchise. He has consulted for museums in Britain and France and several computer game developers. Chris has also consulted for – or been…

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…