Caroline Grego is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Queens University of Charlotte History Department. She received her Ph.D. in history at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019, with funding from a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Her work examines the Jim Crow Lowcountry and can be found in "Black autonomy, Red Cross Recovery, and White Backlash after the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893,” a 2019 Journal of Southern History article which won the Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize Journal of Southern History; and in her book manuscript, based on her dissertation, Hurricane of the New South: Testing the Jim Crow Environment after the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893.

Tiago Saraiva is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University, coeditor of the journal History and Technology, and author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (2016).  He is a historian of science and technology, and has been a Research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin as well as visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley. Among many other projects, Tiago is currently studying the significance of Californian oranges for the history of racial capitalism in South Africa, Algeria, Palestine, and Brazil in the interwar period.

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