About

Ronald S. Coddington is the editor and publisher of Military Images, a quarterly magazine dedicated to showcasing, interpreting and preserving early American photographs of soldiers and sailors. He is the author of five books on Civil War portraiture from Johns Hopkins University Press, including Faces of the Civil War, Faces of the Confederacy, African American Faces of the Civil War, Faces of the Civil War Navies, and most recently, Faces of Civil War Nurses. Ron has participated as a speaker at numerous Civil War-related events, and at meetings for round tables and other organizations. You can learn more about him here.

Paul Quigley is the James I. Robertson Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech and Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. Quigley is a specialist in Civil War era history with experience working on transdisciplinary projects that use technology to present history to diverse audiences in innovative ways. For example, he was PI for “Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era,” a crowdsourced digital archive funded by the NHPRC. His book Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South won awards from the American Civil War Museum and the British Association for American Studies. You can learn more about him here.

Vikram Mohanty is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on solving complex, real-world problems by developing tools that leverage the complementary strengths of crowdsourced human expertise and artificial intelligence (AI), understanding how humans and AI interact with each other, and exploring ethical design challenges around human-AI interaction. You can learn more about him here.

Liling Yuan is a master's student in computer science at Virginia Tech. She is currently working on a collaborative workspace that will allow multiple users to identify photos on CWPS by forming teams. You can learn more about her here.

Manisha Kusuma is a master's student in computer science at Virginia Tech. She is currently exploring the ethical challenges of building facial recognition-based tools. You can learn more about her here.