Angie Maxwell is the Director of the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, and holder of the Diane D. Blair Endowed Professorship in Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of the The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.
Todd Shields is the Dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-author of The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns, which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in Political Psychology.
Since recording his first book for the Kansas Audio Reader Network in 1985, Tom Parks has enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has been nominated for Audie Awards and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and reviewers have described his performances as "conversational," "energetic," and "sincere."