Edward Ayers is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He was educated at the University of Tennessee and Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in American Studies. He has written and edited eight books. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992), a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, was named the best book on the history of American race relations and on the history of the American South. In the Presence of Mine Enemies, War in the Heart of America 1859-1863 (2003) received the 2004 Bancroft Prize for a distinguished book in American history and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award, for the best English-language book on the history of the US, Canada, or Latin America from 1492 to the present.
Ayers has won numerous teaching awards and in 2003 was named the National Professor of the Year for doctoral and research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Ayers pioneered in digital media with “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.” In 2000, it won the first annual eLincoln Prize for best digital work on the era of the American Civil War.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is currently an assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. He lives in Greenwich Village.
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