Chris Spielvogel is Co-Founder of Flip Learning and Senior Lecturer of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University. Chris’s research has appeared in international journals in the fields of digital media, gaming, and learning, communication studies, and American history, while his recent book, Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields (University of Alabama Press, January 2013), examines the public memory of the Civil War. Chris’s innovations have been funded by a variety of foundations and agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Kauffman Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Institute of Education Sciences. He is also the author of Valley Sim, a massively multiplayer simulation on the Civil War that has been featured on C-SPAN2, Education Week, Campus Technology Magazine, and a variety of other national news outlets.

Laura Ginsberg Spielvogel is Co-Founder of Flip Learning and an expert in the fields of public anthropology, digital humanities, and gender and women's studies. She has created a web-based, role-playing simulation on Japanese culture, where students play characters in a fictional wedding between a Japanese women and an American man, and has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including awards from the Kauffman Foundation and NEH. Laura was recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University (2010-2011) and was named Faculty Fellow by the Lee Honors College at WMU (2012). She has published a book, entitled Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs (Duke University Press, 2003), as well as articles in The Electronic Journal of Communication, Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, The International Journal of Learning and Media and a series of works of creative non-fiction.

Kate Hunter is the Project and Account Manager for Flip Learning. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in English and Psychology from Kalamazoo College in 2013. Her senior thesis, comprised of original and ‘found’ poetry, was centered around the life and death of a transgender man who was murdered in Nebraska in 1993, and more widely on the implications of identifying as transgender in the rural Midwest. Kate’s previous experience includes an internship at a nonprofit immigration law firm, as well as previous positions working with multiple digital platforms, such as QuickBooks, SPSS Statistics, and AbacusLaw.

Pablo is a doctoral student in the College of Communication at Florida State University. His Master’s is in Communications with an emphasis on digital media. He has experience producing and editing documentaries, educational media, advertisements, graphics and short animations. He is familiar with the Adobe Creative Suite programs, specifically in After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

David is the Social Media Marketing intern for Flip Learning. He has a Master’s Degree in Management and Organizational Leadership from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. His prior experience is as a digital media manager for a local State College restaurant.

David Kirby's collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of 34 books on various topics, including Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which the Times Literary Supplement of London called “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense” and was named one of Booklist’s Top 10 Black History Non-Fiction Books of 2010. He teaches at Florida State University, where he has won five university teaching awards and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English. Kirby has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recently the Florida Humanities Council presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing. He is married to the poet and fiction writer Barbara Hamby, and his latest poetry collection is More Than This.

Rhoda Janzen is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, and a recent finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. A poet and American literature scholar, Janzen holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was the University of California Poet Laureate in 1994 and 1997. She is currently Associate Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan where she teaches creative writing. She has received numerous teaching awards, including UCLA’s Luckman Award for Distinguished Teaching and the National Pew Charitable Trust Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Confederate War (Harvard University Press, 1997), Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (Louisiana State University Press, 1998), and The Union War (Harvard University Press, March 2011). He serves as editor of two book series at the University of North Carolina Press and has appeared regularly on the Arts and Entertainment Network's series 'Civil War Journal' as well as participating in more than three dozen other television projects in the field. He is also the recipient of the Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professorship for 2011-2012, the highest teaching award conveyed by the University of Virginia.

Joan Waugh of the UCLA History Department researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Waugh's newest book is entitled U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which was awarded the Jefferson Davis Book Prize from the Museum of the Confederacy and the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. Waugh's other books include Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University, 1998), The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Waugh has been honored with three teaching prizes, including UCLA's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award.

Davis Houck is professor in the School of Communication at Florida State University. He has authored several books on the American civil rights movement, including Emmett Till (with Matthew A. Grindy) and the Mississippi Press and Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 (with David E. Dixon). His earlier scholarship focused on American presidential rhetoric, and includes Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt and the Great Depression, which won the 2002 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Prize for the best book in American public address. In addition, his widely acclaimed history of Roosevelt's first inaugural address, Fear Itself, was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize in history. Away from school, Houck enjoys playing golf, gardening and contemplating the mystery of the area's magnificent Live Oaks.