Dr. Cecelia Bucki is Professor of History at Fairfield University (Connecticut), where she has taught for over thirty years. She has also taught at Yale University, Wesleyan University, and Hamilton College. Her specialties within U.S. history are social, labor and working-class, and immigration history. Her main research interest is the nexus of U.S. twentieth-century labor and urban politics, as demonstrated in her first book, the award-winning Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936 (University of Illinois Press, 2001). Since the 1980s, she has produced various public history projects and participated in social-studies teacher training in Connecticut. She was editor-in-chief of the academic journal Connecticut History Review from 2011-2017. She has held a variety of positions in state and national history societies, most notably as National Secretary of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) from 2003-2018. She received the LAWCHA Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History in 2020. She has been a social-history consultant on the State of Connecticut Historic Preservation Advisory Board since 2016.

Daniel Jonas-Roche (b.1993) is an architecture professor, curator, and writer in New York City. His research focuses include socialist art and architecture, and labor history. In 2022, he co-organized a symposium with the L’viv Center for Urban History, Yale University, and University College of London about reconstruction in Ukraine. The three-day symposium gathered over eighty Ukrainian and international architects, economists, psychologists, historians and journalists to discuss reconstruction practices after war. 

Vaidas Petrulis, Ph.D., is an architectural historian and researcher at Kaunas university of Technology in Lithuania. He has been a member of ICOMOS ISC20C since 2008 and Head of the Working Group on 20th century built heritage of the Baltic Sea Region Heritage Committee since 2018. He is a member of the Lithuanian National Commission for Cultural Heritage since 2022. Mr. Petrulis interned at ICCROM in Rome in 2017 and will do long term research in US in 2023 funded by Baltic-American Freedom Foundation. His research interests include the history and theory of 20th century architecture. 

Fatema Tasmia is a PhD student at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University. She is an Assistant Professor (now on study leave) in the Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Her PhD thesis focuses on the History of Tropical Architecture in Post-colonial South Asia. She completed her B.Arch degree from BUET. She has received her M.Arch degree in 2020 with a thesis focused on the Modern Architectural History of Bangladesh. She received the prestigious Vrooman Memorial Postgraduate Scholarship Award 2018, the highest recognition in postgraduate level from the department for her outstanding thesis. Her research interest focuses on Tropical Modernism in South Asia, Critical Regionalism and modern architectural history.