There are five online components for the 2009 workshop, and the instructors are:

• Lucien Ellington, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Workshop Co-Director, East Asian History
• Ronnie Littjohn, Belmont University: Workshop Co-Director, Philosophy and Religion
• Ron Kalafsky, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Geography
• Corinne Dale, Belmont University: Asian Literature
• Suzanne Wright, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Art