Heather Hendershot & Simon Balto

Teaches at The Newberry

Heather Hendershot, professor of film and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also author of What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.

Simon Balto is a scholar, writer, and teacher of History and African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.