Carola Hein is Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, Professor Water, Ports and Historic Cities at Leiden and Erasmus University. She holds the UNESCO Chair of Water, Ports and Historic Cities and leads the LDE PortCityFutures Center. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and several Volkswagen Foundation grants. She serves as President of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and as editor for peer-reviewed open access journals including Blue Papers, CPCL, and Planning Perspectives. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history and has tied historical analysis to contemporary development. Her recent (co-)edited books include: Hustle and Bustle of Port Cities (2025), Port City Atlas (2023), Oil Spaces (2021), Urbanization of the Sea (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2020), The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2018).

Dan Immergluck is a Professor of Urban Studies at Georgia State University. His research concerns housing, race, neighborhood change, gentrification, segregation, real estate markets, and community development.

Dr. Immergluck is the author of five books and over 120 scholarly articles, book chapters, and research reports. His most recent book, Red-Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First Century Atlanta, was published in October 2022 by the University of California Press.

Dr. Immergluck recently served on Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ Transition Committee. He has consulted with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the US Department of Justice, philanthropic foundations, local legal aid, and other nonprofits and government agencies.

Professor Immergluck has been cited and quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WABE Radio, and many other international, national, and local media outlets. He has testified several times before the U.S. Congress and the Federal Reserve Board.  He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington.

Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar received his BA in History from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in U.S. History with a minor in African studies from Indiana University in Bloomington. Since 1997 he has taught at the University of Connecticut’s Department of History. From 2003-2009 he served as the Director of the Africana Studies Institute and from 2009-2012, he served as Associate Dean for the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In June 2012 he was named the University’s Vice Provost for Diversity. In 2014 he became founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music.

Dr. Ogbar’s research interests include the 20th century United States with a focus in African American history. More specifically, Dr. Ogbar studies black nationalism and social justice movements. Dr. Ogbar has held fellowships at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, and the Africana studies program at the University of Miami. where he conducted research for his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap. Dr. Ogbar is author of numerous articles and several books, the latest of which is America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy.

Since July of 2020, Dr. Leslie N. Sharp has served Dean of Libraries at Georgia Previously, she served as interim chief executive officer for the Library and associate vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development. Sharp is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture. Sharp teaches historic preservation in the College of Design, where she formerly served as the assistant dean of Academic Affairs and Outreach. Sharp holds a Ph.D. in history and sociology of technology and science and a master's in history of technology from Tech.

Augustus Wood received his BA in History from Morehouse College, his MA in History from Clark Atlanta University, and his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wood is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a scholar of African American History of the Urban South with an interdisciplinary focus on political economy, intra-racial class struggle, working class social movements, and gentrification in modern urban regions. He also centralizes the role of labor struggles in anti-Black working-class racial oppression and the development of internal neo-colonialism. His other research includes Black Power in Southern Cities, Black Marxism in History, and Black Radicalism in labor social movements. His most recent book is Class Warfare in Black Atlanta.