Robert Citino, PhD, is The National WWII Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian. He is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published 10 books, including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943; Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942; and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich as well as numerous articles covering World War II and 20th-century military history. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as World War II.

Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the US military establishment, and taught one year at the US Military Academy at West Point and two years at the US Army War College. He also was Professor of History at North Texas University, Lake Erie College, and Eastern Michigan University. He has won numerous teaching awards and was voted the #1 professor in the United States on ratemyprofessors.com in 2007.

Yan Mann, PhD, born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine, studied history at St. John's University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree. He spent a year in Moscow doing research on a Fulbright grant and received his doctorate at Arizona State University. His research revolves around the relationship between individual and collective memory of the Great Patriotic War, the Stalin cult, censorship, propaganda, and the production of the war’s first official history during Khrushchev’s thaw. He specialized in World War II and the Soviet Union.

Volker Benkert, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. He studied history and English at the Universities of Bonn, Edinburgh, St. Petersburg, and Fribourg. He graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Bonn and a doctorate from the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the impact of sudden regime change on biographies in 20th-century Germany and Europe. In addition to relying on traditional sources, he utilizes extended biographical interviews. Furthermore, he is interested in the formation and function of discourses on the totalitarian past on an individual and collective level. In his research, identifying pervasive discourse patterns, particularly among ordinary Germans, helps to reveal the transmission of often apologetic views of the past over generations.

Benkert teaches upper-division courses in modern German and European history as well as the Western Civilization and Global History surveys. He also offers several capstone classes such as the HST498 History, Memory and National Myths: Changing European Master-Narratives of World War II.

Chrissy Gregg is the Director of Distance Learning at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. She has been with the Museum since 2011 and oversees the variety of distance learning initiatives for both K-12 and lifelong learning audiences, reaching tens of thousands of participants a year. This includes the Museum’s Telly and Suncoast Emmy award-winning Electronic Field Trip series, which are highly-produced webcasts for students. Chrissy has an MA in Museum Studies from Indiana University and an undergraduate degree in Studio Art and History from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. She has curated an exhibit on the Museum’s collection of Allied propaganda posters and has presented extensively on art in war and the Monuments Men.
 
Previous to her role at the Museum, Chrissy worked at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as a Public Programs Assistant. She has been a member of the International Society of Technology and Education (ISTE) since 2013 and presented about distance learning at the  Mid-South Distance Learning Association Conference, National Service Learning Conference, Association for Communication Excellence Conference, the Southeastern Museums Conference, the American Alliance of Museums Conference, and ISTE.

Kimberly Guise is the Assistant Director for Curatorial Services at The National WWII Museum. She holds a BA in German and Judaic Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She studied at the Universität Freiburg in Germany and holds a masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Louisiana State University. Kim is fluent in German, reads Yiddish, and specializes in the American prisoner-of-war experience in World War II. As a Curator with The National WWII Museum since 2008, she has facilitated the acquisition of thousands of artifacts and has curated several exhibitions including Guests of the Third Reich: American POWs in Europe.

Jason Dawsey, PhD, is a Research Historian at The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, where he researches the service records of WWII veterans and writes their biographies for family members. A native of Columbia, Mississippi, he received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.