Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton is a PhD Candidate in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Her dissertation examines the creation, circulation, and reception of public histories of South African apartheid resistance and the U.S. civil rights movement. She also serves as the assistant managing editor for the digital, open access journal Southern Spaces.

Meghan Tierney

Meghan Tierney is a PhD candidate in the Art History Department at Emory University. She earned a BA from Smith College and an MA in art history from the University of New Mexico. During the 2012–13 academic year, she held the inaugural Imagining America Graduate Fellowship sponsored by the Laney Graduate School at the Center for Community Partnerships at Emory and is an Imagining America PAGE Fellow. For five years before returning to graduate school, she worked in the Collections Management Department and held the position of registrar at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Vialla Hartfield-Méndez

Vialla Hartfield-Méndez holds a PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia. She is senior associate director and director of engaged learning in the Center for Community Partnerships (CFCP), and professor of pedagogy in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. She joined Emory’s faculty in 1992 after holding teaching positions at Vassar College and Drew University, and served as director of the Emory Scholars Program before joining the CFCP. Hartfield-Méndez has authored Woman and the Infinite: Epiphanic Moments in Pedro Salinas’s Art (Bucknell University Press, 1996) and articles on Spanish literature and engaged learning in such publications as Hispanic Review, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Engaging Students in the Community and the World, and Hispania.