Gombojab Hangin was a professor of Altaic and Uralic Studies at Indiana University. He was the founder of The Mongolia Society as well as the Mongol-American Cultural Association. John R. Krueger was a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University specializing in Mongolian languages. Paul D. Buell is a part-time faculty member at the University of North Georgia in the department of History, Anthropology and Philosophy. William Rozycki is a scholar specializing in, among many things, applied linguistics and pedagogy. He most recently served as a professor at the University of Aizu's Center for Language Research until 2015.