Dr. Craig Bauer is a professor of history and coordinator of social sciences at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of the book A Leader Among Peers: The Life and Times of Duncan Farrar Kenner and several journal and periodical articles on Louisiana history and the juvenile justice system. A member of the Organization of American Historians, the Louisiana Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association, Bauer is also a charter member, past board member, and past president of the Jefferson Historical Society of Louisiana and past board member of the Hermitage Foundation. He is past holder of the Freeport-McMoran Endowed Professorship in Business and Education and is the Nancy O'Neill Endowed Professorship III at Our Lady of Holy Cross College. He earned his doctorate in history at the University of Southern Mississippi and currently resides in Metairie, Louisiana, with his wife and daughter.