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Charles Osgood, often referred to as *CBS News*' poet-in-residence, has been anchor of *CBS News Sunday Morning* since 1994. He also anchors and writes "The Osgood File," his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. Osgood was recognized with the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. He was the recipient of the 2005 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. In 2005, Osgood received the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award from Arizona State University. He was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000 and joined the ranks of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1990. Osgood was born in New York. He was graduated from Fordham University in 1954 with a B.S. degree in economics and holds honorary doctorates from 11 institutions of higher learning. He has served as a trustee for Fordham University and St. Bonaventure, is an overseer at Colby College and is a trustee at the School of Strings in Manhattan. Osgood has performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and played the piano and banjo with the New York Pops and Boston Pops Orchestras.

Charles Payne is the Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where is he also an affiliate of the Center for Urban School Improvement. His interests include urban education and school reform, social inequality, social change and modern African American history. He is the author of Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education (1984) and I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (1995). The latter has won awards from the Southern Regional Council, Choice Magazine, the Simon Wisenthal Center and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Payne has taught at Southern University, Williams College, Northwestern University and Duke University. He has won several teaching awards and at Northwestern, he held the Charles Deering McCormick Chair for Teaching Excellence and at Duke, the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for excellence in teaching and research. Payne holds a bachelor's degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University and a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern.

Charles Perfetti is a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, and Senior Scientist and Director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Charles Reagan Wilson is the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1981. He has worked extensively with graduate students and served as Director of the Southern Studies academic program from 1991 to 1998, and Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998-2007. Wilson received bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and earned his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at the University of Wurzburg, Germany, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Texas Tech University before coming to Oxford. Wilson is the author of *Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920* (1980), a study of the memory of the Confederacy in the post-Civil War South, and *Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis* (1995), which studies popular religion as a part of the culture of the modern South. He is also coeditor (with Bill Ferris) of *the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture* (1989), which received the Dartmouth Prize from the American Library Association as best reference book of the year and is also coeditor of *The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture*, currently in production. He is editor or coeditor of *Religion and the American Civil War* (1998), *The New Regionalism *(1996), and *Religion in the South* (1985).

Charles Rosen was born in New York in 1927 and left The Juilliard School of Music at the age of eleven to study piano with Moritz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt. His New York debut in 1957 was followed in the same year by one of the first complete recordings of Debussys Etudes, which attracted high praise. Since then his career as a piano virtuoso has included many tours of the United States and Europe, playing with leading orchestras and giving recitals. He has made frequent appearances with the BBC and various European and American radio stations, and his television appearances include the presentation of two programmes on Beethovens last years for BBC TV. In September 1999 he broadcast Rosen on Chopin a series of programmes to mark the 150th anniversary of the composers death for BBC Radio 3. His performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra have included the BBC Promenade Concert premiere of Elliott Carters Double Concerto, and the first performance of Boulezs Elats/Mutiples conducted by the composer. The holder of a doctorate in French Literature from Princeton University, Charles Rosen holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. He was appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair at Harvard for 1980/81; this Chair, established in 1925, is offered every year to an outstanding individual in one the arts, alternating between literature and music. In 1988 he was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and he was Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago between 1991 and 1996. He was recently appointed to the International Chair in Performance and Musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music for a period of three years.

Charles Russell serves as Director of the Rutgers Graduate Program in American Studies and as Associate Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. An Associate Professor of English, he is author of *Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avant-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism*, and is editor of *Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art*, among other books. Most recently, he co-edited with Professor Carol Crown of the University of Memphis, *Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art*. His current research focuses on contemporary American literature and art, especially the work of Robert Stone and the theoretical formulations of mainstream and outsider art. He teaches courses in American literature, the foundations of literary study, and contemporary literature and art.

American diplomat and a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. He went on to become Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department, and now heads its free trade agreement task force. Shapiro was very unpopular with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his time as ambassador. Since 2004, he has been indicated by Venezuelan people as one of the perpetrator in the Coup d'etat against President Chavez of 2002. Shapiro has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgia State University, and served in the United States Coast Guard.

Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he had a traumatic childhood during World War II. In 1954 he emigrated from Yugoslavia with his mother and brother to join his father in the United States. They lived in and around Chicago until 1958. His first poems were published in 1959, when he was twenty-one. In 1961 he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and in 1966 he earned his Bachelor's degree from New York University while working at night to cover the costs of tuition. His first full-length collection of poems, *What the Grass Says*, was published the following year. Since then he has published more than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad, twenty titles of his own poetry among them, including *That Little Something* (2008), *My Noiseless Entourage* (2005); *Selected Poems: 1963-2003* (2004), for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; *The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems* (2003); *Night Picnic* (2001); *The Book of Gods and Devils* (2000); and *Jackstraws* (1999), which was named a Notable Book of the Year by *the New York Times*. His other books of poetry include *Walking the Black Cat* (1996), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; *A Wedding in Hell *(1994); *Hotel Insomnia* (1992); *The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems* (1990), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; *Selected Poems: 1963-1983* (1990); and *Unending Blues* (1986).

Charles Skillas is a board certified hypnotherapist practicing in Atlanta, GA. He is also a National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) certified hypnotherapy instructor. He has practiced energy healing and hypnotherapy since 1981 and is a member of the business and metaphysical teaching faculty of St. Johns University. He has a PhD in engineering and a doctor of divinity degree in spiritual healing arts.

Charles St. Amand joined Suffolk University’s Communication & Journalism Department as its Practitioner in Residence in July 2018 after working 31 years in community journalism, most recently as editor of the Sentinel & Enterprise in Fitchburg, Mass. A 1986 graduate of Suffolk University, he began teaching journalism part time at Suffolk, his alma mater, in 2000. He is vice president of the New England Society of News Editors’ Board of Governors.

Steinberg, who served the Orioles as team dentist in addition to his front-office duties, leaves an impressive legacy in Boston, where he oversaw the team's public and community, electronic and live entertainment, television and video production, and advertising and customer service. He created the Fenway Ambassadors program, was the guiding force behind the team's grandest ceremonies, like the World Series rings presentation in 2005 and the Tribute to Ted Williams, and was the innovator behind such popular occasions as the Father's Day catch at Fenway. He also created the Red Sox scholars program and other notable social outreach programs.

Charles Stimson, J.D. is a widely recognized expert in national security, homeland security, crime control, drug policy and immigration. A senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation since 2007, Stimson became Manager of the National Security Law Program in Heritage’s Institute for Constitutional Government in April 2013 after serving as Heritage’s chief of staff for a year. Stimson writes and lectures on policy issues such as the law of armed conflict, terrorist detainee policy and interrogations, the Geneva Conventions, military commissions, the Patriot Act and FISA, criminal law and the death penalty, immigration and the war on drugs.

Charlie Sykes is author of the Substack newsletter, ‘To The Contrary’ and host of its podcast. He is also an NBC/ MSNBC contributor.

**Tevin Charles** is an alumnus of The Loop Lab's workforce development program and has produced over 20 videos in the last year, with topics ranging from music to gentrification to transportation. He also serves as an Inclusion Youth Worker with Cambridge Youth Programs.

Charles M. Vest is President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Vest earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967, respectively. He is also the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees. Dr. Vest served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 through 2004. During this time, he placed special emphasis on enhancing undergraduate education, exploring new organizational forms to meet emerging directions in research and education, building a stronger international dimension into education and research programs, developing stronger relations with industry, and enhancing racial and cultural diversity at MIT. Dr. Vest has worked to bring issues concerning education and research to broader public attention and to strengthen national policy on science, engineering and education. Vest is the author of two books on higher education and research policy: *Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of the Research University *(2004), and *The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web* (2007).

At Cornell, Charles Walcott served as Director of the Ornithology Laboratory for 14 years, then Director of the Division of Biological Science, Associate and then Dean of the University Faculty, and later the University Marshal.