Obviously Shanto Iyengar was really instrumental. I have to really give him credit because he tapped me as an undergraduate to work as an RA. And I know he didn't do that all the time. I actually ended up working on that initial project with someone who became a colleague later, he was in grad school at the time. It was Nicholas Valentino, we end up working together later at the University of Michigan. There were other people there, Marde Gregory, Geoff Cowan, Jeff Cole. They were just some phenomenal professors I had as an undergraduate. When I got to grad school, I had some really interesting experiences visiting schools, and they were not all positive. And what was really telling is when I got to UC Santa Barbara, I met Dan Linz. Dan Linz was the Director of Graduate Studies at the time. One of the things he told me is "We will support your research. We really don't do what you're interested in. We don't really do race, stereotyping and all these things you're interested in studying. But we can make you a really good scholar, if you come to UCSB. We will help you be really meticulous, rigorous, and help you to be able to produce really phenomenal research." They gave me financial support, admitted me and seemed to be behind me. Ed Donnerstein was my mentor there and he was really phenomenal. One of the violence scholars of an era to be honest with you. I also worked pretty closely with Barbara Wilson, who eventually recruited me to the University of Illinois. She said, "Travis I want you at Illinois." And invited me to apply to a position here. And that's how I ended up at the University of Illinois many years later. First of all, the faculty, even though they were great, they were predominantly white male faculty, two women. And so Barb was very instrumental in showing me how to deal with being a little bit different and pushing forward. And she was one of the only people who even taught about media stereotyping in her classes. I would also add Dale Kunkel, as well, who really encouraged me to think about media policy and how policy intersects with a lot of the different phenomenon we're interested in as media effects scholars. So, those are my biggest mentors in grad school. As I began thinking about my dissertation, I had this conversation with Dan and we had a really honest conversation about direction. I came in knowing I want to do race, media and stereotyping this is what I want to do. And Dan was like, "Yeah, all right, I can help you with that. But can we do news? Can we do something that intersects with my law and policy interests?" That was the compromise. No entertainment media, do news. As I was looking around, I came across the scholarship of two people who are just phenomenal. Mary Beth Oliver, being the first one, wrote a piece in the 90's dealing with police crime stories, crime shows like "Cops". And it really influenced how I thought about research and rigor, and how to approach even content analysis studies, as well as media effects studies. The other person was Robert Entman who at the time was at Northwestern and had done a series of studies, I should say, dealing with Chicago news. There's one more person I want to mention on this question. Once I got to Michigan, I had the good fortune of working with a number of really brilliant people, and one of them was named Richard Allen. Richard Allen was one of the earliest phenomenal media effects scholars that did race research. He was doing very sophisticated modeling in his survey designs in the 70's. It was much less common back then than it is now. So those are the people I want to highlight today.