Fifteen profs will compete for $100,000. They are:
- J.P. Allen, a Professor of Business at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif.
- Hester Blum, a Professor of English at Penn State University in University Park, Pa.
- Sam Buttrey, a Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
- Marti Canipe, a Professor of Elementary Science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.
- Lisa Dresner, an Associate Professor of Writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
- Ramón Guerra, a Professor of English, Literature, and Latino Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in Omaha, Neb.
- Gautam Hans, an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tenn.
- John Harkless, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- Ed Hashima, a Professor of History at American River College in Sacramento, Calif.
- Gary Hollis, a Professor of Chemistry at Roanoke College in Salem, Va.
- Alisa Hove, a Professor of Botany at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.
- Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, an Assistant Professor of U.S. and African American History at University of Colorado-Boulder in Boulder, Colo.
- Katie Reed, an Associate Professor of Musicology at California State University Fullerton in Fullerton, Calif.
- Deborah Steinberger, a Professor of French Literature at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.
- Julia Williams, a Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.
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