Dr. McCool was appointed President/CEO of Eden Autism Services in 2005.  From 1985 through 2005, Dr. McCool was employed at Devereux, a national non-profit organization which provides services for persons with emotional, developmental and educational disabilities.  Most recently, he served as the national Vice President of Development and Government Relations.  Previously he served as Executive Director of Devereux California with responsibility for Clinical, Residential, Recreational, and Educational/Vocational Programs for developmentally disabled children and adults.  Dr. McCool was a gubernatorial appointee to the California Interagency Coordinating Council, is a Founding Commissioner of the National Commission on Accreditation of Special Education Services (NCASES), and founding member and current Vice Chairman of the National Association of Residential Providers of Adults with Autism (NARPA).  He served on the MIND Institute Advisory Board, is also a member of the Autism Society of America and is currently serving as Treasurer of the National Association of Private Schools for Exceptional Children (NAPSEC).  He is also currently Chairman of the Board of Autism Services Group (ASG).  Dr. McCool was named the 2010 Innovator of the Year by the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce.  Dr. McCool has presented at numerous professional conferences including the National Association of Private Schools for Exceptional Children, and Autism Society of America's National and International Conferences on Autism.  Dr. McCool received a Doctor of Education Degree in Educational Leadership from Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Leadership Studies, Hackensack, New Jersey, and a Masters of Education Degree from West Chester State University, West Chester, PA 

Hendrik Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton.  He holds a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Brandeis University (1982), a J.D. from the New York University School of Law (1973), and an A.B. from Carleton College (1970).  Before coming to Princeton, he taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School (1982-92) and at the Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Law (1977-82).  Hartog has spent his scholarly life working in the social history of American law, obsessed with the difficulties and opportunities that come with studying how broad political and cultural themes have been expressed in ordinary legal conflicts.  He has worked in a variety of areas of American legal history: on the history of city life, on the history of constitutional rights claims, on the history of marriage, and on the historiography of legal change.  He is the author of Public Property and Private Power: the Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870 (1983) and Man and Wife in America: a History (2000).  He is the editor of Law in the American Revolution and the Revolution in the Law (1981) and the coeditor of Law in Culture and Culture in Law (2000) and Public Life and the Historical Imagination (2003).  He has been awarded a variety of national fellowships and lectureships, and for a decade he coedited Studies in Legal History, the book series of the American Society for Legal History.  He is affiliated with Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs and with the Program in American Studies. 

Kevin M. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America, with particular interest in the making of modern conservatism.  Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he also studies the postwar South and modern suburbia. Professor Kruse is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005), as well as the co-editor of three collections: The New Suburban History (2006), with Thomas Sugrue; Spaces of the Modern City (2008), with Gyan Prakash; and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012) with Stephen Tuck.  He is currently at work on a study of the making of the American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century, titled One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity and the Rise of the Religious Right.  His first book, White Flight, won prizes such as the 2007 Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association (for the best first book in Southern history, 2005-2006) and the 2007 Best Book Award in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association.  In addition, Professor Kruse has been honored as one of America's top young "Innovators in the Arts and Sciences" by the Smithsonian Magazine and selected as one of the top young historians in the country by the History News Network.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of Religion and is affiliated with Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.