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Rachel Ban
Email: rban@wam.umd.edu
Rachel Ban is pursuing a Masters in Library Science and a Masters in History at the University of Maryland. Her interest is in the history of technology in the U.S. during the time between the American Civil War and World War I.
Kathleen Banks Nutter
Email: knutter@email.smith.edu
Kathleen Banks Nutter holds a PhD in American History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of "The Necessity of Organization”: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (2000).
Marianne Beane
Email: beanem@hhmi.org
Marianne Beane is a graduate student in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Danna Bell-Russel
Email: dbell@loc.gov
Danna Bell-Russel is a Digital Reference Specialist at the
Library of Congress. Trained as an archivist she has worked for the NAACP; DC Public Library, Washingtoniana Division; and
the National Equal Justice Library formerly housed at the American University Washington College of Law.
Mark Benbow
Email: mark_benbow@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
Mark Benbow completed his Ph.D.
in American History at Ohio University in 1999 under Dr. Alonzo Hamby. His dissertation was entitled: “Leading Them to the
Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915.” From 1992-2002 he worked in
computer operations for the US Government specializing in making computer systems more user-friendly. In 2003 he became the
in-house historian at the Woodrow Wilson House Museum, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in
Washington, D.C.
Phil Birge-Liberman
Email: pdbirgel@maxwell.syr.edu
Phil Birge-Liberman is a doctoral student in
geography at Syracuse University. His research lies at the intersection of urban, historical, and environmental geography.
In examining the role of nature in American cities, Phil will be exploring the politics of urban parks. In particular, he
will examine the historical production of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace in Boston as well as current efforts to
preserve and restore these parks in the hope of preserving the legacy of Olmsted.
Dexter L. Blackman
Dexter L. Blackman is a History Doctoral Candidate at Georgia State University. His dissertation, "Bitter Rivals," focuses on the construction of the Black athletic myth in twentieth century America.
Alan Bloom
Email: Alan.Bloom@valpo.edu
Alan Bloom is Lecturer in History and the Humanities at
Valparaiso University in Northwest Indiana. He is currently revising his dissertation from Duke University into a monograph
entitled: “Where Else Can They Go?”: Homelessness in Early Chicago, 1833-1871.
Jeffrey T. Bowen
Email: JTB@wpgate.law3.georgetown.edu
Jeffrey T. Bowen is the Cataloging Librarian at Georgetown University Law Center Library. He received his BA in History from Baylor University in 1994 and his MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996.
J.D. Bowers
Email: TD0JXB1@wpo.cso.niu.edu
J.D. Bowers is Assistant Professor of History at
Northern Illinois University where he specializes in public history with an emphasis on the issues and aspects of Hawaiian
and Pacific history, national parks, museums, and educational practices. He is currently at work on two projects, the first
entitled Living in a Sovereign Land: Hawaiian History and Culture in the Twentieth Century and has a chapter
forthcoming next spring on Hawaiian statehood through Greenwood Press, and the second, an examination of American
Unitarianism’s public history. He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. and Ph.D. from
Indiana University. He also taught secondary school in Hawaii and Virginia for five years.
Nancy Brown
Email: nlbrown@buffalo.edu
Nancy Brown has earned an MLS from the University at Buffalo
The State University at New York, an MA in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University and an MA from The
State University at New York College at Buffalo. Most recently she served as the Executive Director of the Chautauqua
County Historical Society.
Pamela Carter
Email: pamelalcarter@cswebmail.com
Pamela Carter just completed her M.A. in
History/Public History (Community History concentration) at Arizona State University. Her thesis was entitled, “Helping the
Health Seekers: A History of Development at Arizona’s Desert Mission, 1921-1949.” Prior to starting graduate school, she did
museum and archeology work for the National Park Service in Alaska.
Carol Casey
Carol Casey, a graduate student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, is also a writer in publications at the university. Her most recent article in College Park Magazine, "Preserving Words and Lives," discussed the literary manuscript collection at Maryland of Kathryn Anne Porter and Djuna Barnes.
Matt Clavin
Matt Clavin is a Ph.D. candidate in history at American University. His focus is on race and slavery in early America.
Edward Copenhagen
Email: copenhag@bc.edu
Edward Copenhagen is the Assistant Archivist at Boston College’s John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections. He received his MA in History and MS in Library & Information Sciences from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Evan Daniel
Email: evan.daniel@verizon.net
Evan Daniel is a Ph.D. Candidate, History and Political
Science, New School for Social Research and a processing Archivist (non-print) at, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives,
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. Research interests include Labor history, social
history, comparative politics, international political economy.
Andrew Dawson
Email: A.Dawson@greenwich.ac.uk
Andrew Dawson lectures in the History of the United States at the University of Greenwich, London, England. His research interest is nineteenth-century machine building in Philadelphia. His most recent publication is "Reassessing Henry Carey (1793-1879): The Problems of Writing Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of American Studies (UK) 34 (December 2000): 465-85.
Donna M. DeBlasio
Email: dmdeblasio@ysu.edu
Donna M. DeBlasio is Assistant Professor of History and Director
of the Center for Historic Preservation at Youngstown State University. She received her BA and MA in history from
Youngstown State and Ph.D. from Kent State University. For nearly fifteen years, she worked as a museum site manager and
historian for the Ohio Historical Society and the Ohio Historic Preservation Office. Dr. DeBlasio came to YSU in 1999,
after leaving her position as Senior Historian for the Cincinnati Museum Center. She also directs the Oral History Program
at YSU and is a faculty member of the Center for Working-Class Studies. Her most recent publications are “The Immigrant and
the Trolley Park in Youngstown, Ohio, 1899-1945,” in Rethinking History, Spring 2001 and Youngstown: Postcards
From the Steel City for Arcadia Publishing in 2003. Dr. DeBlasio co-authored a Multiple Property Documentation of
Historic and Architectural Properties of the Underground Railroad in Ohio for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office. Her
successful National Register nominations include the boundary extension of the Wick Park Historic District in Youngstown
(2001) and a National Historic Landmark for the Wilson Bruce Evans House in Oberlin, Ohio (1997). She is currently working
on a manuscript for the University Press of Kentucky on working class leisure in early twentieth century Youngstown. Dr.
DeBlasio received a YSU Distinguished Professor Award for Public Service in 2001.
Gregory Dehler
Email: GrDehler@aol.com
Gregory Dehler is an adjunct professor at Front Range Community
College, Westminster, Co. He earned his PhD. in American History from Lehigh University in 2002. For his dissertation, he
wrote a biography of wildlife conservationist William Temple Hornaday.
Rick Dodgson
Email: rick1@frognet.net
Rick Dodgson is a PhD. student in the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. The focus of his dissertation is on the activities of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during the 1960s and beyond, and he is the webmaster of a research website -- www.pranksterweb.org.
William Doody
Email: WilliamEDoody@aol.com
William Doody teaches Twentieth Century American History and
Modern World History in the Indiana Area School District in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He holds a Master of Arts in Teaching
degree from the University of Pittsburgh and is a candidate for the MA in History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Timothy Dean Draper
Email: tddraper@worldnet.att.net
Timothy Dean Draper teaches history at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, IL, and has worked with instructional website design and interactive distance learning projects. He serves as an Advisory Board member of the Illinois State Historical Society and was the 1999 Pratt Award recipient for authoring the best article appearing in that year's Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. A doctoral candidate at Northern Illinois University, Professor Draper focuses on American history, particularly immigration and ethnicity, urban communities, and the mining West.
Trudy Eden
Email: Trudy.Eden@uni.edu
Trudy Eden is currently an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Rapids. She specializes in early American history, the history of science and medicine, legal history, and material culture
Matthew Eidson
Email: matthew.eidson@nara.gov
Matthew Eidson MLIS is an Appraisal Archivist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740-6001. He is a graduate from the Archives Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick M. Erben
Email: perben@learnlink.emory.edu
Patrick M. Erben received an M.A. in English from Johannes Gutenberg-University in Germany, and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English at Emory University. His dissertation investigates the role of manuscript and print cultures in the negotiation of German and Anglo-American identities in colonial Pennsylvania.
Johanna Ezell
Email: jve1@psu.edu
Johanna Ezell is Head Librarian, Penn State Mont Alto.
Phyllis Field
Email: fieldp@ohio.edu
Phyllis F. Field is associate professor of history at Ohio University where she teaches the history of the Civil War. She is the author of The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era (1982).
Elissa Fineman
Elissa Fineman is a transplanted New Yorker working as a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the social potential of the Internet. In her former life, she taught New York City school children in the classroom and museums.
Shara Forrister
Email: Moreta@Segfault.com
Shara Forrister is a candidate for Masters of Arts in History
at Arizona State University, with an emphasis on Public and Community History. Her pending thesis examines museums and
their use of the Internet.
Douglas Gardner
Email: gardnedg@muohio.edu
Douglas Gardner is an alumnus of Ohio State and Duke Universities, and earned the doctorate in history at Miami of Ohio. His research interests are focused on how the Civil War generation understood and remembered their wartime experiences. He is at present visiting assistant professor of history at Miami University Hamilton in Hamilton, Ohio.
Murney Gerlach
Email: mgerlach@rbhayes.org
Murney Gerlach received a Ph.D. from Oxford University in
modern British and American
history, and his main research has been on 19th century British-American relations, the Gilded
Age, 18th and 19th century political and social thought, and transatlantic liberalism. He has taught at San Diego State
University, the University of San Diego, Brown University, Roger Williams University, University of Rhode Island, Brant
College and Rhode Island College, on American, British, European history. He is a former University Archivist and Special
Collections librarian, SDSU, also former director of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and Assistant Secretary of the
Corporation at Brown University. He has been active with the American Association of Museums, American Association for State
and Local History, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and National Council on Public History. His most recent
publication is British Liberalism and the United States: Political and Social Thought in the Late-Victorian Age
(Palgrave, 2001), and he is currently the Executive Director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont,
Ohio, and Sec./Treasurer for the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Lee Ann Ghajar
Email: lghajar@gmu.edu
Lee Ann Ghajar is a historian at the Women In Military Service For
America Foundation, Inc., in Arlington Virginia. She curates exhibits at the Women’s Memorial located at the ceremonial
gateway to Arlington National Cemetery and designs and develops web pages for the Foundation’s Office of History and
Collections. Her MA in American History (with a concentration in History and New Media) is from George Mason University in
Fairfax, Virginia, and she hopes to return to school in 2004.
Delia C. Gillis
Email: dgillis@cmsu1.cmsu.edu
Delia C. Gillis is an Associate Professor in the
Department of History & Anthropology at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg. She has served as a guest lecturer
on the African American experience in World War I at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. She was also a visiting professor
at the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies at Teikyo University in the Netherlands in June 2003.
Bradley J. Gills
Email: bgills@asu.edu
Bradley J. Gills is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Arizona State
University. His dissertation is entitled "Mining the Forests: American Indians and Wage Labor in the Lumber Industry of
Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1850-1950." He has also recently contributed two entries to the Treaties with Native
Americans: Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, & Sovereignty forthcoming from ABC-CLIO Press in 2004. Learn more at his
home page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~bolshoi/
Lisa Grant
A native of Newfoundland, Lisa Grant is currently a Masters student at the University of Ottawa, completing research in 18th century medical History. In the fall she will begin doctorate studies at Warwick University, in England.
Joshua R. Greenberg
Email: jg0837a@american.edu
Joshua R. Greenberg is a Ph.D. candidate in History at American University. His dissertation is entitled "Advocating 'the Man': Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840." He has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century and Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
Lyn Guérin
Email: lguerin@museums.ca
Lyn Guérin works as a Museum Consultant in Ottawa, Canada. Her areas of expertise include Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions, and Repatriation. She conducts much of her research with the use of the Worldwide Web and has assisted many Web Designers with new sites.
Susan Hamburger
Email: sxh36@psulias.psu.edu
Susan Hamburger is the Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Florida State University in 1985 and 1994, and B.A. in English and M.L.S. from Rutgers University in 1975 and 1976. Dr. Hamburger’s research interests include African-Americans, The South, American Civil War, horse racing, and Florida history.
Carol Hannaford
A New Englander by birth, Carol Hannaford moved to the Washington DC area in 1972. She is a technical editor at Westat, a survey research firm in Rockville, MD. In the last year she has edited a biography and collaborated on several scholarly papers and journal articles. She is an active volunteer in local government in Montgomery County. Her interest in the Valley of the Shadow Project stems from a long-awaited desire to learn about the Civil War.
Leslie Heaphy
Email: LHEAPHY@stark.kent.edu
Leslie Heaphy is Assistant Professor of History and
Coordinator of the Honors Program at Kent State University, Stark Campus. In the spring of 2003 McFarland published her
first book entitled The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960.
Rich Hephner
Email: otto95@pegasi.net
Rich Hephner is a web architect with eight years experience in web design and several years experience as a musuem professional. He
has a Master's degree in History from Virginia Tech where he focused on early 20th Century European history. He currently
works for a large IT consulting company in Washington, D.C., and is involved in the content management of one
of the internet's most popular government public history web sites.
Kathleen Johnson
Email: kj11@nc.rr.com
Kathleen Johnson received a B.A. in history from Columbia University, a M.Ed. from North Carolina State University, and a M.A. in public history from North Carolina State University. She taught U.S. history at the high school level in New York City for three years and is currently employed as the Curriculum Consultant for the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina.
Lauren Kata
Email: lkata@gsu.edu
Lauren Kata is the Labor Archivist for Georgia State
University’s Southern Labor Archives, of the University Library’s Special Collections Department in Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael Knies
Email: kniesm2@UofS.edu
Michael Knies is Special Collections Librarian at Weinberg Memorial Library, University of Scranton. Mr. Knies holds an MA in American studies from the Pennsylvania State University and an MLS from Rutgers University. He is the author of Coal on the Lehigh: Beginnings and Growth of the Anthracite Industry in Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1790-1827. Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Press, 2000, and three articles on the anthracite industry in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Gayla Koerting
Email: gkoertin@usd.edu
Gayla Koerting has a Ph. D. in nineteenth century U. S. History from Kent State University and recently received a MLS from Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Koerting was an instructor of history at the University of Missouri-Rolla and is currently the Special Collections librarian at the University of South Dakota.
Sara Lawrence
Email: slawrx@hotmail.com
Sara Lawrence is working on a master's thesis on the social
history of Portland, Oregon during the Progressive Era, using a local amusement park as the centerpiece.
T.E. Leary
Email: teleary@ysu.edu
T.E. Leary is an overqualified Assistant Professor of History and Historic Preservation at Youngstown State University, located at the epicenter of Ohio’s Rust Belt. Prior to migrating into academia, Dr. Leary worked for twenty years in industrial museums and as an international consultant on steel heritage planning projects.
Denise Elizabeth Lee
Email: deniselee8@aol.com
Denise Elizabeth Lee, M.L.A. is a consulting writer for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Maryland Baltimore County who also designs publications and websites. She is earning a master of library science degree from the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) and writes for the UMD Office of Information Technology, where she is a graduate assistant.
Chery Lemus
Email: cklemus@juno.com
Cheryl Lemus (cklemus@juno.com) is a Public/American Ph.D. student at Loyola University Chicago.
John F. Lyons
Email: jlyons@jjc.edu
John F. Lyons was born in London, England, and has lived in the U.S. for the past 10 years. He gained a PhD in American history from
the University of Illinois at Chicago. Employed as an Associate Professor of History at Joliet Junior College in Illinois,
he teaches courses in U.S. History and World History. He is presently preparing for publication a book on the history of
labor organizing among Chicago Public schoolteachers.
Lindsey MacAllister
Email: lmacalli@yahoo.com
Lindsey MacAllister has an MA in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University and currently serves as the Archival Assistant at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Her research interests focus on the industrial revolution, immigration and ethnic relations in Chicago and other large urban centers.
Laura A. Macaluso
Email: LAMacaluso@aol.com
Laura A. Macaluso is a PhD student in 19th Century art history at
the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Juanita MacDonald
Juanita MacDonald is a Masters student in public history at Carleton University. She also works on archival descriptive standards projects for the Standards Centre, National Archives of Canada.
Nikki Mandell
Email: mandelln@uww.edu
Nikki Mandell is an associate professor in the History Department at
the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She teaches a United States History survey that places the U.S. experience in a
world context. Dr. Mandell is directing a professional development program for K-12 history/social studies teachers. She
recently published a study on the origins of personnel management, The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate
Welfare, 1890-1930(University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Susan Mangus
Email: smangus@muskingum.edu
Susan Mangus received a B.A. in history from the University
of South Carolina and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. She is an assistant professor of history
at Muskingum College and the Director of Education of the John and Annie Glenn Historic Site in New Concord, Ohio. She is
co-author and editor for the Ohio Historical Society’s Ohio History Central, an on-line encyclopedia of Ohio History.
Melanie Martens
Email: martensmelanie@hotmail.com
Melanie Martens studied Museology at the University of Toronto, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in History at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She has many fond childhood memories of The Greatest Show On Earth - even of the poor elephants.
George P. Mason
Email: gmason@wayne.edu
George P. Mason is a Doctoral Candidate in sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently conducting research on autoworkers and educational workers and in the field of social justice.
Erin McLeary
Email: erinmcleary@hotmail.com
Erin McLeary is a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation examines the use of museums in medical and public health education in North America from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Jonathan Mercantini
Email: jmercan@yahoo.com
Jonathan Mercantini is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Miami. He received his Ph. D. from Emory University in May 2000. His dissertation, "Colony in Conflict: South Carolina, 1748-1766," examines political and constitutional disputes between British imperial and provincial elites during the period immediately prior to the revolutionary era. Dr. Mercantini is currently revising his dissertation manuscript for publication. His historical interests include both the colonial and revolutionary periods, in particular the early origins of the American Revolution. He is also interested in the Old South and the Atlantic World.
Claus K. Meyer
Email: claus_k_meyer@gmx.net
Claus K. Meyer is working on a doctoral dissertation comparing the slave-planter relationship in antebellum South Carolina with the subject-lord relationship in eighteenth-century Brandenburg, one of the core territories of the Prussian monarchy.
Daniel S. Murphree
Email: dmurp@mail.miles.edu
Daniel S. Murphree is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Florida State University and an Assistant Professor of History at Miles College. He is currently revising his dissertation, "Racialization and the Middle Ground: Europeans and Indians in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783," for publication.
John S. Olszowka
Email: olszowka@maine.edu
John S. Olszowka is an Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Maine at Farmington. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from Binghamton University. His dissertation, “From Shop
Floor to Flight; Work and Labor in the Aircraft Industry, 1908-1946,” examines changing roles of work and the rise of
organized labor at the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company. At the present, he is revising the manuscript for publication
through the Smithsonian Institution Press.
Angela O'Neal
Email: aoneal@ohiohistory.org
Angela O'Neal is the Project Manager for Ohio Memory. Previously she served as Content Editor and worked with local institutions to select materials for Ohio Memory. She received her bachelor's degree in History and Anthropology from Kent State University and her master's degree in History from Miami University of Ohio. Her article titled, "remembering the Maine: Memory, Ritual and Women's Roles in the Auxiliary of United Spanish War Veterans, 1922-1966," was published in the Fall 2000 edition of Ohio History.
Daniel Opler
Email: djo209@nyu.edu
Daniel Opler is a doctoral candidate at New York University, writing a dissertation on New York City’s department store unions. He has published articles in the Journal of Social History and in Cercles, is the managing editor of the Columbia Journal of American Studies, and has taught U.S. history at Empire State College and Manhattan College.
Greg Pabst
Email: pabst@usfca.edu
Greg Pabst has been a Lecturer, Communication Studies, at the
University of San Francisco since 1991. He currently teaches advertising. His background includes 25+ years in advertising
in San Francisco, including as a Vice President at Ketchum Advertising, an Account Supervisor at Saatchi & Saatchi and
President of regional agency Evans Communications/San Francisco. He is currently an MA candidate in American History at San
Francisco State University and is also a volunteer for San Francisco City Guides, a public history program of free history
and architecture walking tours.
Carol Quirke
Email: piunonesiste@hotmail.com
Carol Quirke is completing her doctoral dissertation, "Camera Work: News Photography and Organized Labor, 1919-1950," in U.S. History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. She formerly worked as a community organizer and arts activist.
Jonathan Rees
Email: jonathan.rees@colostate-pueblo.edu
Jonathan Rees is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University - Pueblo. He is the author of Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry During the Nonunion Era and co-author of The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Working-Class Culture and Industrial Relations (both forthcoming).
Heather Rellihan
Email: hr50@umail.umd.edu
Heather Rellihan is a graduate student at the University of Maryland College Park. Her focus in on English Language and Literature and Women's Studies.
Michael Rembis
Email: mrembis@email.arizona.edu
Michael Rembis received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Arizona. His dissertation entitled, "Breeding Up the Human Herd: Gender, Power, and Eugenics in Illinois, 1890-1940," won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize for promise of outstanding scholarship in a dissertation appropriate to Women’s Studies. He has published several articles on the history of eugenics. His most recent article, “’Explaining Sexual Life to Your Daughter’: Gender and Eugenic Education in the United States,” is forthcoming in Making it Modern: Popular Culture and Eugenics in the 1930s Eds. Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell.
Lynn Sally
Lynn Sally is a Ph.d. candidate in the Performance Studies Department at New York University. Her proposed dissertation is on fire and American popular amusements in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
David G Schwartz
Email: dgs@unlv.nevada.edu
David G. Schwartz is the coordinator of the Gaming Studies Research Center at UNLV, where he also teaches in the history department. He is the author of Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond. (New York: Routledge, 2003). For more information, see http://gaming.unlv.edu.
Jeffrey Smith
Email: jeshistory@earthlink.net
Jeffrey Smith is a history professor at Lindenwood
University in St. Charles, Missouri, with a Ph.D. in History from The University of Akron. Trained as a specialist in the
Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Smith’s recent research interest has focused on Andrew Carnegie.
Mark E. Speltz
Email: Mark.Speltz@Pleasantco.com
Mark E. Speltz is a historical researcher with
the Research & Library Department at American Girl, Inc. and researched Mystery at Chilkoot Pass by Barbara Steiner.
A former intern and employee of the Minnesota Historical Society and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service,
Mr. Speltz has also worked as an independent researcher on exhibits for museums, including the Ellis Island Immigration
Museum and Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design.
Kelley Squazzo
Email: ksquazzo@wam.umd.edu
Kelley Squazzo is a graduate student at the University of Maryland College Park. Her focus in on English Language and Literature and Women's Studies.
Christopher Strangeman
Email: ccstrangeman@lycos.com
Christopher Strangeman is working on his doctorate in Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. A lifelong fan of the cinema, his major interests lie in cultural and social history.
Gavin Taylor
Gavin Taylor has a Ph.D. in American history from the College of William and Mary. He will complete a Master’s degree in Journalism at Carleton University in the spring of 2003 and will be working for the Toronto Star this summer.
Michelle Thick
Email: michellethick@hotmail.com
Michelle Thick has recently gained her masters degree in Public History from Appalachian State University. She has returned to her native England and hopes to begin her PhD studies in Fall 2004.
Lacey Torge
Email: lt237@is7.nyu.edu
Lacey Torge is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her work focuses on popular amusements, World’s Fairs, and tourism. She is also a Reference Associate at NYU’s Bobst Library.
Monica Van Wert Martinez
Email: mmatinz@wam.umd.edu
Monica Van Wert Martinez is a full-time graduate student in the College of Library and Information Services. Current interests include Slavic bibliography and business reference.
Heidi Amelia-Anne Weber
Email: haweber@kent.edu
Heidi Amelia-Anne Weber is a Ph.D. student in Nineteenth Century American History at Kent State University. Before beginning the Ph.D. program, she taught at community colleges for three years. Heidi's article "The Army Medical Department in the Spanish-American War" appeared in The Journal of America's Military Past and she also has an upcoming book review in Civil War History.
Shawn Wedel
Email: wedelsk@slu.edu
Shawn Wedel is a second-year graduate student in American Studies at
Saint Louis University. His interests include global postmodernism and its influence on popular culture. When overwhelmed by
the challenges of a new marriage, his first home, a monotonous job, and graduate school, Shawn retreats to his "happy
place," the junior-high, heavy metal phase he forgot to outgrow.
Alica White
Email: acw3@psu.edu
Alica White is earning a master of library science degree at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.
Holly Wright
Email: hwright@nelson-atkins.org
Holly Wright received a Masters degree in history with an emphasis in public history in 2001. She currently manages the Archives at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
