Humanities in a Digital World Council

Peter C. Mancall is a historian of early North America, the early modern Atlantic World, and Native American history. He has written five books, edited ten others, and has written for American Heritage and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as historical journals, and his work has been featured on NPR's “All Things Considered” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Current projects include American Origins, which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States, and Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton and the Tragic Origins of New England, which is under contract with Basic Books. In 2012 he delivered the inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania; a revised version of his lectures will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015.  He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Professor of History and Anthropology, and Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences at USC Dornsife.

Philip J. Ethington is Professor of History, Political Science, and Spatial Sciences in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Chair of the History Department, and Faculty Master of New North Residential College, at the University of Southern California.   An interdisciplinary historian, Ethington is completing a multigenre global history to be published in 2017 by University of California Press in online and print formats: Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon. Ethington, in collaboration with Tara McPherson, et al, and the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, has been a lead developer of the Mellon- and NEH-funded scholarly publishing platform, Scalar.

Cavan Concannon is an associate professor of religion. He specializes in the New Testament, Early Christianity, Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Continental Philosophy.