Ralph Blumenthal spent 45 years as a New York Times reporter — chronicling the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, divided Germany, the hunt for missing Nazi war criminals, political corruption,…

William Middleton is a journalist and editor who has worked in New York and Paris. He has been the Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief…

Kathryn O’Rourke is a Professor of the History of Art at Trinity University. She earned a B.A. in Architecture from Wellesley College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in the History…

Rafael Longoria is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston. His areas of research include economic determinants of urban form, and architecture and planning in the cities of…

Jim Blackburn is a practicing environmental lawyer, a professor in the practice of environmental law in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University, and the CEO of BCarbon.…

Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and a lecturer at the Rice University School of Architecture. He is also a lecturer at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at…

Joseph Campana is a poet, arts writer, and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham UP,2012),…

Kevin Prufer is the author of nine poetry collections and the editor of many books on literary translation, literary publishing, and European and American poetry. He is also the recipient…

Alvia Wardlaw is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston. She also is a…

Doreen Stoller is president of the Hermann Park Conservancy and has successfully led the Conservancy's efforts at Hermann Park for more than eighteen years. Under her direction, the Conservancy launched…