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Abbink, Jon Abedinezhad, Zahra Abu-Ghosh, Nour Acosta, Aaron Alfredo Afield, W. Edward Ahlm, Emma Albuquerque, Rafaela Alexandra Fay Ali, Tazeen Alicino, Francesco Altnurme, Riho Ammon, Laura André Laliberté Anello, Giancarlo Arigita, Elena Arnold, Philip P. Arriaga, Kristina Austin, Deirdre Jonese Awad, Abed Ayoub, Samy A. Babie, Paul T. Bachiochi, Erika Ballor, Jordan J. Bambach, Lee Ann Barth, Whittney Bean, Tanner J. Bedzow, Ira Benhalim, Rabea Bennett, Daniel Bichler, Annabelle Bigelow, Anna Biggar, Nigel Bigtree, Sandra L. Bird, Wendell Blankenship Jr., Mark Edward Blicharz, Grzegorz Blumenthal, David R. Boaz, Danielle Bodaken, Alex Brady, Kathleen A. Bray, Samuel L. Brett, Adam DJ Brett, Mia Brownstein, Alan Broyde, Michael J. Bush, Stephen Cadge, Wendy Caksu, Ali Caldwell, Larry W. Calhoun, Allen Carey, Ann Carmella, Angela C. Case, Mary Anne Cavedon, Matthew P. Chapman, Nathan S. Chopra, Rohit Chryssides, George D. Clanton, Dan Coleman, Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Michelle Coleman, Rachel Colombo, Ronald Colston, Ari Cook, David Coons, John E. Corbin, Caroline Mala Corrigan, John Corsalini, Matteo Cover, Benjamin Plener Cressler, Matthew J. Crosson, J. Brent d’Errico, Peter Dane, Perry David, Edward A. David, Kathryn de le Fuente, Alejandro DeBoer, Michael J. Dennis, Andrea L. Denysenko, Nicholas Descamps, Olivier Dhanidina, Halim Dickinson, Colby Dimodugno, Davide Doe, Norman Domingo, Rafael Dorrien, Gary Dreisbach, Daniel L. Dunn, Shannon Durham, W. Cole Dusenbury, David Dwyer, James Eckes, Suzanne Ellis, Atiba R. Falola, Toyin Fastiggi, Robert Ferrari, Silvio Fields-Smith, Cheryl Fisher, Catherine Flores, Teresa Ford Jr., Craig A. Ford, Laura Frank, Thomas Franklin, Robert M. Freer, Courtney Friedman, Raphael A. Gaither, Milton García-Salmones, Mónica Garnett, Richard W. Gas-Aixendri, Montserrat Geier, Brett Gertrude Levine Goldammer, Matthew González-Varas, Alejandro Gorski, Philip Graber, Jennifer Green, Jeffrey Edward Green, M. Christian Green, Preston Green, Steven K. Grewal, Harjeet Griffin, Leslie Gross, Ariela Gross, Laurie Grout, Christopher Grubbs, Jason Guercio, Sara Pullen Gunn, T. Jeremy Güvenç, Muna Haeri, Niloofar Hall, Mark David Hamill, Susan Pace Hammond, Jeffrey B. Harrison, Joel Hawks, Jennifer Hayashi, Andrew Hees, Connor Helfand, Michael A. Helmer, Christine Helmholz, Richard H. Hendricks, Michael Herdt, Jennifer A. Hill, Mark Hodge Jr., James G. Hogan, Linda Holifield, Brooks Hollinger, David A. Hornbeck, Patrick Horwitz, Paul Houser, Victoria Hovorun, Cyril Hudson, Wayne Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman Hutler, Brian Hybel, Gabriela Introvigne, Massimo Ioana Emy Matesan Jackson Agara, Rackel Jackson, Timothy P. Jaeger, Robert A. Jamil, Kamil Jones, Paul Dafydd Jones, Robert P. Jun, Mingyu Jung, Kevin Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony Kaplan, Paul Kealy, Dwight M. Kebede, Bisrat Keller, Catherine Kelley, Bryan Kennedy, Rachel Khan, Saeed A. Kim, David Yoon-Jung Kincaid, Elisabeth Rain King, John E. Klapper, Aryeh Kolluru, Sai Santosh Kumar Koppelman, Andrew Kowalczyk, Allen D. Kunzman, Robert Kuo, Henry S. LaChance, Daniel Ladouceur, Paul Langer, Adina Jocelyn Langos, Colette Larsson, Ernils Lassin, Jacob Latterell, Justin Lechner, Frank Lechtchiner, Feigele Ledewitz, Bruce Levine, Samuel J. Levinson, Sanford Lewis, Andrew Lewis, Paul Lieber, Laura S. Lin, Rung-Guang Lindsay, Geoff Little, Andrew Little, David Lloyd, Dana Lo, Ping-cheung Longchamps de Bérier, Franciszek Lord Judge Louise Macmillen, Sarah Lucia, Amanda Lukasik, Candace Lund, Christopher Lyons, Betty Madera, Adelaide Malloy, Kerri J. Marcar, Greg Margulies, Joseph Marshall, Paul Martínez-Torrón, Javier Marzouki, Nadia Masri, Firas Massaro S.J., Thomas Massimo, Faggioli Mayrl, Damon McBride, James McCarthy, Marta McCrary, Charles McCune, Candace McDuffie, Adam McGrath, Jenny McIvor, Méadhbh Melo, Benilson Mendenhall, Ruby Menon, Annapurna Migliori, Chiara Milbank, John Miller-Gertz, Gilan Miller, Daniel D. Miller, Robert J. Minakov, Mikhail Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Momin, Shan Montague, Terri Y. Moorehead Carroll, Kate Mosbey, John C. Moustafa, Tamir Movsesian, Mark Muñoz, Vincent Phillip Myrick, Ginny Myrick, Wesley Nabhan-Warren, Kristy Najarro, Mauricio Nelson, James D. Nemec, John Newcomb, Steven T. Newman, Dwight Ngata, Tina Nichols, Joel A. Niehof, Len Nongbri, Brent Noon, Marie-Joe Okunwaye, Israel Chukwuka Oman, Nathan B. Osborne, Allan G. Paradise, Brandon Park, E. Isabel Parker, Maggie Pasture, Patrick Pennell, James Perry, Samuel Peterson, Benjamin Petri, Dennis P. Phillips, Adrienne Pill, Shlomo C. Pimentel Filho, J. Ernesto Pin, Andrea Platt, Elizabeth Reiner Pohlman, Zachary B. Poole, Randall A. Pruitt, Nicholas Quigley, Fran Rao, Sunil Ravitch, Frank S. Razif, Nurul Huda Mohd. Reidy, Patrick E. Reinhard, Rick Reynolds, Philip Riccardi-Swartz, Sarah Rice, Christian Richardson, James Riedener, Stefan Riofrío, Juan Carlos Roberts, Allison Roeber, Anthony Rogers, Melissa Romano, Nathaniel Roser, Dominic Rosh, Jessica A. Roskoshnyi, Illia Royer, Ismail Rucker Jr., Frederick Russo, Charles J. Sadri, Amin Saiman, Chaim Salamey, Imad Sánchez, Nelson Camilo Sandberg, Russell Sande, Ken Sanei, Faraz Santos Martins, Ricardo Evandro Satta, Mark Savage, Audra L. Scharffs, Brett G. Schmalz, Mathew N. Schmidt, Leigh Eric Schmoeckel, Mathias Scruggs, Mathew D. Garcia Segol, Marla Sepper, Elizabeth Shah, Prakash Shahawy, Hassaan Shaikh, Almas Sharkey, Heather J. Shirazi, Faegheh Siddiqui, Mona Simms, Karen Crawford Sims, Darrin Simson, Gary J. Skotnicki, Andrew Smith-Pollard, Najuma Smith, Brian A. Smith, Joanna Smith, R. Drew Smith, Ted A. Sorkin, Anton Spencer, Marguerite Sperber, Esther Sperneac-Wolfer, Christian Srikantan, Geetanjali Stackhouse, Rochelle A. Tarantino, Daniela Tareen, SherAli Taubman, Craig Teater, Daniel ten Napel, Hans-Martien Thompson, A. Keith Thompson, Teri Thro, William E. Tipton, Steven Townsend, Kenneth Tremblay, Mark Truschke, Audrey Tutu, Desmond Uelmen, Amy van der Vyver, Johan D. van der Vyver, Yolanda Vázquez Gómez, Rebeca Velte, Kyle C. Viveros, Sara Buitron Vovk, Dmytro Wagner, Rachel Wahedi, Sohail Walayat, Aaron J. Walmsley, Craig Walters-Sleyon, George Wang, Eric Warner, Carolyn Warren, Kyle Weaver, Doug Weinberger, Lael Weiner, Isaac A. Weiner, Jason Weissman, Shlomo Welker, Michael Williams, Dodeye Uduak Wilson, Robin Fretwell Winchell, Mareike Winters, Joseph Witte Jr., John Wolterstorff, Nicholas Woodard-Lehman, Derek Wosnik, Peter Wuthnow, Robert Xavier, M. Shobhana Zeh, Katey Zeligman, David Zerra, Luke Zubovich, Gene