Many scholars write for The Ultimate History Project; they include tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, curators, preservationists, historical consultants, graduate students, licensed tour guides, and trained historians who work outside the academy in a variety of different jobs.

If you wish to contact any historian writing for The Ultimate History Project, you can send an email to authors@ultimatehistoryproject.com. 

Alexandra Lord received her B.A. from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.  In 1995, Dr. Lord won the Richard Shryock Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine as well as a post-doctoral fellowship for the history of medicine from the University of California, San Francisco.   After leaving a tenure-track position at Montana State University in 1998, Dr. Lord held a visiting professorship at SUNY-New Paltz.  In 2001, she became the staff historian for the Office of the US Public Health Service Historian and in 2008, she joined the National Park Service as the Branch Chief of the National Historic Landmarks Program. 

In 2010, the British Medical Association awarded Dr. Lord’s book, Condom Nation: The US Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet (Johns Hopkins University), its prize for the best popular book on medicine as well as its prize for the best book furthering understanding of science and medicine among the general public.  She has published articles on British and American history in a variety of academic journals and she frequently writes about the historical profession for The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has published and spoken on topics ranging from early modern medical theories of menstruation to the history of bioterrorism at academic conferences, Ellis Island, Planned Parenthood, universities, and other venues.

An active public historian, Dr. Lord has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Public History as well as the board of the Stettin Museum.  For the past seven years, she has run the public history website, Beyond Academe.

You can contact her at alord@ultimatehistoryproject.com.

Sheena M. Morrison is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University where she is researching and writing a dissertation titled Beyond The Pale: Public Health and National Negro Health Week. 

Ms. Morrison has worked as a contract historian for the Office of the Public Health Service Historian and the National Library of Medicine.  An oral historian, she has conducted extensive interviews of first-responders to 9/11 as well as leading public health officials engaged in preparing for a potential influenza pandemic.  At the National Library of Medicine, she worked on a variety of projects, including one that developed overviews of public health materials to better assist researchers.  In the Office of the Public Health Service Historian, she helped oversee a collection of diverse objects relating to the two hundred year history of the Public Health Service.

She has curated or co-curated exhibits on topics ranging from the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 to Granny Midwives.  She has also spoken on medical and civil rights/peace history at venues ranging from Ellis Island to Goucher College.  She is currently working on a preservation project related to Mexican American migrant workers in the 1930s and 1940s. 

You can contact her at smorrison@ultimatehistoryproject.com.

Victoria Lord received her B.A. from Yale College with a double major in Archaeology and Religious Studies.  Her senior thesis, The Missing Martyrs:  A Solution to the Absence of Bloody Martyrdom in Ireland, received special departmental honors. 

Between 1986 and 1988 she studied Old Irish and Middle Irish at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.  In 1990 Ms. Lord received an M.A. in Medieval History from Columbia University.  She has written for such diverse publications as The Washington Post and the Harvard Colloquium on Celtic Studies. 

In addition to her work as an editor and writer, she tweets for The Ultimate History Project under the name @UltHist.  She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two sons.

You can contact her at vlord@ultimatehistoryproject.com

Jessica Achberger received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on the foreign policy and political and economic development of Zambia, specifically on Zambia’s relations with China at the time of independence. She has researched on four continents, living for extended periods in both Zambia and China, and completed her dissertation, Forward with the Nation: Zambia, China, and the West, 1960-1970 in 2012. 

Dr. Achberger is passionate about knowledge dissemination and scholarship in all its formats. She currently works as an independent scholar, freelance writer and editor, and consultant, mostly from her home just outside Lusaka, Zambia. In addition to her academic writing, she contributes regularly to ChinAfrica magazine the Zambian Economist, among other publications. She is the website administrator for the Network for Historical Research in Zambia. In her spare time you can find her reading, writing, practicing yoga, gardening, cooking, and traveling.

You can contact her via jachberger@ultimatehistoryproject.com or via her personal website or via the Network for Historical Research in Zambia.

Stephanie Stegman received her B.A. from Southern Methodist University and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2010, where she was a recipient of the Graduate College Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, Taking Control: Fifty Years of Diabetes in the American Southwest, 1940-1990.  

She served as project historian for the Governor Samuel P. Goddard Papers Online at Arizona State University's Archives & Special Collections and has written for a variety of audiences, including the National Archives Text Message Blog and The Handbook of Texas Online.  Dr. Stegman currently works a writer, researcher, and historical consultant in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.

You can contact her at sstegman@ultimatehistoryproject.com.

Devin Fitzgerald is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on different forms of intercultural communication and experiences of violence in the early modern period. His dissertation, a study of the cultural and intellectual history of the Ming-Qing conflict (1644), argues that the war in China was one of the first global news events. 

In his spare time, Devin enjoys learning foreign languages (Dutch and Latin right now) and hiking through the hills of his native New Hampshire. He is a co-founder of the Manchu Studies Group (as well as the webmaster for www.manchustudiesgroup.org), and works to promote a greater understanding of all things Chinese. You can click here to view his academic profile.

Charlotte L. Storch is entering her sophomore year at Yale University where she plans to major in political science, with a particular focus on international relations, and to continue her study of Arabic, French, and comparative linguistics. She has lived in the United States and in Ukraine.

You can contact her at cstorch@ultimatehistoryproject.com