James Lon­go is Pro­fes­sor of Edu­ca­tion and Edu­ca­tion Depart­ment Chair at Wash­ing­ton & Jef­fer­son Col­lege. He is a for­mer Ful­bright Schol­ar Dis­tin­guished Chair of the Gen­der and Women’s Study Pro­gram at Alpen-Adri­an Uni­ver­si­ty in Aus­tria and has lec­tured through­out Europe and Amer­i­ca. His 2008 book, Isabel Orleans-Bra­gan­za: The Brazil­ian Princess Who Freed the Slaves was nom­i­nat­ed for the Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Gil­da Lehman Fred­er­ick Dou­glass Book Prize for the ​“most out­stand­ing non-fic­tion book in Eng­lish on the sub­ject of slav­ery and abo­li­tion.” He lives in Wash­ing­ton, Pennsylvania.