Joshua Goode is professor of cultural studies and history at Claremont Graduate University. His research specializations are in Modern Spain; 19th- and 20th-century Europe; genocide and racial thought; museums and commemoration; and memory. With these research interests, Goode offers a range of courses at CGU that incorporate both his cultural studies and history expertise. Goode received his MA and PhD in History from UCLA. Since then, he has taught at numerous universities, including UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, and the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Goode has received awards and grants from UCLA (1993–1994, 1997, 1998–1999), a Fulbright Fellowship (1995–1996) and, most recently, the Fletcher Jones Faculty Research Award (2012–2014). In addition to Goode’s CGU campus courses, he has established an international transdisciplinary course with Bath Spa University that allows Bath Spa University students and CGU students to spend a week studying and exploring the historical sites of Los Angeles, California, followed by a week of studying the historical sites of Bath, England. This successful international course continues to offer cultural and educational experience to CGU students from different disciplines. Goode has a forthcoming article, “Does Past Convivencia Promise Future Tolerance? Contemporary Spanish Attitudes Toward Immigration,” which will appear in the academic journal Social History.

Astrid Swenson is a Professor of European Historical Cultures at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, having previously taught at the University of Cambridge, Brunel University London and Bath Spa University in the UK. My background is in History, History of Art, Romance Languages which I studied in  Mainz and Dijon. I graduated with an M.Phil in European Studies and a Ph.D in History from the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on understanding heritage historically and transnationally. Most of my writing centres on nineteenth and twentieth century Europe in global perspective. Fundamentally, I am interested in how individuals and societies relate to the past, how knowledge moves across cultures and how both shape, and are shaped, by ideas about the local, the national and the global. My first book The Rise of Heritage. Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914 (CUP 2013) brought these questions together, looking at the origins of heritage in Europe from a comparative and transnational perspective. I have been involved in  a number of interdisciplinary and international projects, including the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group Leverhulme Project ‘Past versus Progress’ (http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk/index.html); ‘Borders of Heritage’, hosted at the EHESS in Paris and the ‘AHRC Sensory Cities international Research Network’ which focussed on methods to research the senses in urban environments (http://www.sensorycities.com/).

David Sprott is the Henry Y. Hwang Dean and a professor of marketing in the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and is on faculty at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. His research interests include retailing, branding, influence strategies, and marketing public policy. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of South Carolina and earned a BA in Business and an MBA from Kent State University. Prior to his arrival at the Drucker School, Sprott served as professor of marketing and dean of the College of Business at the University of Wyoming. At UW he led a renewed strategic vision embracing the student experience, quality academic research, and economic engagement of the state. Previously Sprott served on the faculty at Washington State University for more than two decades and held the Boeing/Scott and Linda Carson Chair of Marketing, among other leadership positions; he was a recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the WSU College of Business. Sprott’s research has been published in leading scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Retailing. His teaching interests include retail management, leadership, brand management, consumer behavior, sales management, and research methods at the undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels. Sprott is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including serving as co-editor of Handbook of Research on Customer Engagement, (Edward Elgar, 2019). He is a member of several marketing and consumer organizations, including the American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research, and Society for Consumer Psychology.