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Jeffrey Brautigam is Professor of History and Division Coordinator for the Humanities at
Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he evaluates all requests for AP college credit
and placement in history. A recipient of a PhD in history from the University of Florida,
he has taught European history at the college level for 20 years. The coauthor of A Student
Introduction to Charles Darwin (Kendall/Hunt, 1999, ISBN 0-7872-6311-7), Professor
Brautigam is a historian who writes for students and general audiences.
Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni holds degrees in history, Spanish, Italian, and comparative
literature. A former Fulbright scholar and twice a National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) fellow, she has taught AP World History, AP European History, and AP Art History
at the high school level as well as history and languages at the high school and university
levels, both in the United States and in Italy.
Wendy Petersen earned undergraduate degrees in political science and French before going
on to a Master of Arts in political science. Time spent studying in France and England
sparked an interest in history, and she began her career teaching world history in south-
west Houston in 1997. Since moving to New Mexico in 2000, she has taught a variety of
Advanced Placement courses. In 2014, she was selected to be one of the first teachers to
pilot the new Advanced Placement Seminar course, part of the College Board’s Advanced
Placement Capstone program.ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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