Dr. Kenneth Bowling, co-editor, First Federal Congress Project

Bowling is an adjunct professor of history and co-editor of The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 at the George Washington University.  His works include The Creation of Washington, D.C.:  The Idea and Location of the American Capital and Peter Charles L’Enfant:  Vision, Honor and Male Friendship in the Early American Republic, published by the university in 2002.  In 2008 he created the popular course, “George Washington and His World”, which is taught primarily at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Dr. Dennis Pogue, vice president for preservation, George Washington’s Mount Vernon

During his tenure at Mount Vernon, Dr. Pogue, M.A. ’81, has directed numerous archaeological excavations and managed several major restoration- and preservation-related projects.  The most extensive of these include reconstructing George Washington’s whiskey distillery, his 16-sided treading barn and four associated farm buildings, as part of developing the “George Washington, Pioneer Farmer” interpretive exhibit, and restoring Washington’s recreated gristmill.  In 2011 he released Founding Spirits:  George Washington and the Beginnings of the American Whiskey Industry.

Dr. Patricia Brady, author and historian, Loyola University New Orleans

Dr. Brady is a social and cultural historian who has published extensively on first ladies, free people of color, cemeteries, and the arts in the South.  She is the author of Martha Washington: An American Life, George Washington’s Beautiful Nelly, and A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson; the forthcoming Blackwell Guide to George Washington will include her “George Washington’s Family.”  The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities recently named her the state’s 2012 Humanist of the Year.