• Maggie Favretti (Chair)
• History Teacher, Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New York

Maggie Favretti has been teaching high school history for 22 years in Scarsdale and Middlebury, Vermont. She has a B.A. in the history of art from Yale University and a M.A. from Middlebury College. Favretti has published short works about the history of the commodification of the American landscape and in Enlightenment women's poetry. She works to develop interdisciplinary teaching and world history programs, extending the reach of education for a sustainable world. Favretti has served on the Executive Council of the World History Association (WHA) and two of its committees, as well as on committees of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, where she links secondary and postsecondary educators around both content and practice. Currently, in addition to U.S. and world history, Favretti is teaching a new course of her own design in food policy and culture. She serves as this Committee's representative to the College Board Academic Council.

• Jerry H. Bentley
• Professor of History, University of Hawaii

Jerry Bentley is the editor of the Journal of World History. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of Renaissance humanists led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton, 1983) and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (Princeton, 1987). More recently, his research has concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. Bentley's book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, 1993) examines processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before the modern era, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (Washington, D.C., 1996) discusses the historiography of world history. His current interests include processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchanges in modern times.

• Rosemary Ennis
• History Teacher, Sycamore High School

• Michele Forman
• Social Studies Teacher, Middlebury Union High School

Michele Forman holds a bachelor's degree in history from Brandeis University and a master's degree in teaching from the University of Vermont. In the late 1960s, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching health in Nepal. Her professional activities include serving on the Vermont Department of Education Task Force on High School Reform. She helped develop history teaching standards for several organizations and is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. In 2001, Michele was the first Vermont educator to be named National Teacher of the Year.

• Luis Mart¡nez-Fernández
• Professor of History, University of Central Florida

Luis Mart¡nez-Fernández is a historian of Latin America, whose research and writing focuses on Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and books; among his books are:

Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean (2002), Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana (1998), and Torn between Empires: Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878 (1994). Mart¡nez-Fernández was also the Senior Editor of the multiple award-winning Encyclopedia of Cuba:

People, History, Culture (2003). His current book project, A Concise History of the Cuban Revolution, is scheduled for publication by the University of North Carolina Press in 2009.

Besides serving in the History Academic Advisory Committee, Mart¡nez-Fernández has served since 2004 in the College Board's Academic Council. In the Spring of 2007, he was elected Chair-elect of the Council.

• Gary B. Nash
• Director, National Center for History in the Schools, University of California-Los Angeles

• Kelly Saenz
• AP^® European History Teacher, Westwood High School, Austin, Texas

• Bonnie G. Smith
• Professor of History, Rutgers University

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She has written and edited books in European, world, and women's history, including Ladies of the Leisure Class (1981), Confessions of a Concierge (1985), Changing Lives: Women in European History since 1700 (1989), The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (1998), Imperialism (2000), and Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present (2007). She is co-author of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (2nd ed. 2004) and general editor of the 6-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in European, women's and world history.