Robert J. Helfenbein is Professor of Curriculum Studies in the Tift College of Education at Mercer University. Dr. Helfenbein has published numerous research articles about contemporary education analysis in urban contexts and the single author book Critical Geographies of Education: Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry (Routledge, Summer 2021). His current research interests include curriculum theorizing in urban contexts, cultural studies of education, critical geographies of education and contemporary social theory, and the impact of globalization on the lived experience of schools.

Hill Taylor is an educator and researcher whose work explores the intersections of the health humanities, blue humanities, and the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments. Before joining the English and Comparative Literature department at the University of North Carolina in 2021, he served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Office of Learning Support at Oregon Health & Science University. His scholarship bridges composition and rhetoric, environmental and health humanities, and critical approaches to geography and place-based education.