David Furlow
David Furlow is a senior partner at the Houston office of Thompson & Knight LLP. During 25 years of practice, he has argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme, and other federal courts, often addressing constitutional, appellate, and historical issues, and has served as the Chair of the American Bar Association's Media, Defamation & Privacy Law Committee. David has presented papers about the American colonial world to the New Netherland Institute, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and at Delaware Archaeological Society symposia concerning the Delaware River, as well as the Texas Chapter of the Society of Mayflower Descendants; he has published articles in Mayflower Descendant, Mayflower Quarterly, and Swedish Colonial News.
Carrie Hogan
Among the exhibits historian Carrie Hogan has curated for the Swedish Historical Musuem are "Colony to Community: The Story of New Sweden," "Sandra Binion: Ennesbo," "Norse Mythology and the Viking Age with Illustrations by Artist Dylan Carroll," and "Material Matters: Swedish Textiles."
Cynthia J. Van Zandt
Historian Cynthia Van Zandt specializes in colonial North America, Native America, and the early modern Atlantic World. Her publications include Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2008), and she is currently conducting research for a future publication on the topic of “Cultures of Fear: Anti-Catholicism and Protestant Fears of Catholic Conspiracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World.”
Richard Waldron
Historian Richard Waldron's research interests include 16th–18th century Swedish and Swedish-American history, European culture abroad in the 16th to the 19th centuries, the evolution of culture in frontiers, and religion as a major structure of cultural maintenance in situations of cultural stress. Now retired, Richard was formerly the executive director of the American Swedish Historical Museum, as well as the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Kim-Eric Williams
Kim-Eric Williams has worked as Archivist and four-time Governor of the Swedish Colonial Society, as Swedish Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Translator of the multi-volume Gloria Dei Records Project. He serves as Archivist at the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia and is the editor of Archives Advocate. He is an 11th generation descendant of three 17th century Swedes.
Lorraine Williams
As the curator of archaeology and ethnology at the New Jersey State Museum from 1974 to 2008, anthropologist Lorraine Williams managed the personnel and budget of the Bureau of Archaeology and Ethnology in preserving and interpreting an archaeological collection of over 2 million objects from New Jersey and the surrounding areas, and an ethnographic collection of over 4,000 objects primarily from New Jersey. Her research interests include cross-cultural adaptations in Native American and European-American artistic practices and traditions (19th and 20th centuries), New Jersey social history and folklife studies, and prehistoric and historic culture contact (particularly of Colonial and Native American populations).
