Matthew G. Stanard is Associate Professor of History at Berry College where he is the 2014 recipient of the Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden Award for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service.  He has published a number of books, journal articles, and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European overseas empire.  He has been a participant in the National History Center’s Decolonization Seminar in Washington, D.C., a Wolfsonian-FIU Fellow in Miami Beach, Florida, and a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium.  He lives in Rome, Georgia, with his wife Noemi and sons Marlon and Ivan. 

Lubangi Muniania is an Art Educator, specialized in the visual and performing arts of Africa. He has worked as an exhibition consultant for Georgia Tech University’s Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Director of Education at the Museum for African Art in New York, African Art Education consultant for the Art Institute of Chicago, Saint Louis Museum of Arts, festivals and cultural centers. Lubangi has written and produced numerous documentaries, including Memories of Lumumba for the Museum for African Art, African Portrait for NBC, and a documentary about food suppliers in DRC’s conflict zones for Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. He has also produced educational events for Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, City College of New York, The United Nations, The Africa-America Institute, Sessions at Africa One (AT&T). Lubangi is currently the president of Tabilulu Productions.