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Roger Smith (PhD., University of California, Berkeley ),Professor of Government Emeritus, College of William and Mary, is one of the country's foremost experts on genocide, is widely-published on this topic. He is known for his seminal article “American Self-Interest and the Response to Genocide,” which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in July, 2004. More specifically, he has written about the Armenian genocide and women and genocide. He has served as President of the International Association for Genocide Scholars, chairman of the Zoryan Institute's Academic Board of Directors, and as a council member of the Institute on the Holocaust.

J. D. Bowers (Ph.D., Indiana University), Institute Director, is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and also Director of the Secondary Teacher Certification in History and Social Sciences. His teaching and research interests include religion, genocide and human rights, the US in the World, and social studies curriculum development. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and the Woodrow Wilson/Carnegie Foundation grant for the improvement of history teaching. He has worked with seven different Teaching American History grants serving more than fifty-five schools and nearly 200 teachers; he has also received several distinguished teaching awards.

Tony Guzzaldo (BA, Northern Illinois University), is the Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator for District 308 in Oswego, Illinois, where he teaches 6th grade Social Studies at Thompson Junior High School.  He has taught curriculum units on genocide for three years, focusing on the Holocaust and Rwanda.  In 2007 Tony was a co-presenter for the "Teaching Genocide in the 21st century Classroom" session at the NCSS national meeting in San Diego.

Eric Jones (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), is an Assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and a specialist in Southeast Asia.  He is an associate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and runs a study abroad program to Malaysia.  His teachign and research interests include gender, violence, class, and economic conflict.  He teaches classes on every country in Southeast Asia (Burma, cambodia, Indonesia, Malyasia)and was the recipent of the Fulbright grant to Malyasia.

Judy Ledgerwood (Ph.D., Cornell University), is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University and a specialist in Cambodian Studies, the Cambodia genocide and cultural anthropology.  She has published widely on those topics.  She is an associate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and has worked extensively with DC-Cam in Phnom Phen as well as the Cambodian American Heritage Museum in Chicago.  She has also been the lead curator in a dual-staged exhibition of Khmer Culture and Life and is currently working on another exhibit on the genocide. 

Kathryn Maley (MA, Northern Illinois University), is the Program Advisor and Instructor for the Secondary Teacher Certification in History and Social Sciences. Her teaching and research interests include social studies curriculum development, assessment, children's literature in genocide and human rights, and the education of immigrants. She has tuahgt Secondary Social science Teaching Methods and the various clinical courses for student teaching.

CJ Nemic (BA, Knox College), is a Social Studies Teacher at Gifford Street Alternative High School in Elgin, Illinois.  He is a former participant in the GHRI and after attending in 2006 he revised his curriculum to include extensive use of film and music.  He is currently pursuing his MA in Teaching and Leadership at St. Xavier University in Chicago where he is researching ways to improve attendance among at-risk students through curricular innovations and content adaptations.

Brett Weiss (MA, Northern Illinois University), is a Social Studies teacher at Bartlett High School in Elgin, Illinois where he has tuaght for more than 10 years.