Marcus Gadson, UNC Law School, presented “How Constitutional Crisis Made America’s Constitutional Order”. Marcus Gadson is a Harvard Law graduate and leading authority on state constitutions. He has published in top-tier journals including the NYU, Michigan, and Georgetown Law Reviews. Gadson is the author of Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged From Violent Crisis. Previously, he practiced at Steptoe & Johnson and clerked for US Court of Appeals Judge Bernice Donald on the Sixth Circuit.

“The Trouble of Color: Making Marriage and Family Along North Carolina’s Jagged Color Line,” presented by Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Jones is a cultural-legal historian and prize-winning author whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

“The Chinese Question: Diasporic Histories and the Global Politics of Race,” was presented by Mae Ngai of Columbia University. Ngai is a prominent historian of immigration, citizenship, nationalism and the Chinese diaspora.