Erik Gilbert teaches African history, world history, and Indian Ocean history at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. He received his Ph.D. in African history from Boston University. A recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he spent his study time in Zanzibar focussing on the western Indian Ocean dhow trade. James Currey/Ohio University Press will soon publish the results of that research as Dhows and the Colonial Economy in Zanzibar, 1860–1970.
Carl J. Guarneri is Filippi Professor of History at Saint Mary's College of California. He has also taught at Bates College and the University of Paris VIII, and earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He is the author of The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (1991) as well as articles and reviews on utopian socialism, abolitionism and transatlantic reform, and the Civil War. A participant in the La Pietra Project on Internationalizing the Study of American History (1997–2000), he has also written essays and reviews on comparative approaches to U.S. history and is the editor of America Compared: American History in International Perspective, 2 vols. (1997).
Michael S. Henry is an instructor in American history at Prince George's Community College and University of Maryland University College after having taught high school history for thirty years. He received his B.A., two M.A.s, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications on history and education have appeared in The Magazine of History, Social Education, The Social Studiesand Newsweek. He has also written extensively on Advanced Placement history issues.
Howard M. Wach is a member of the history department at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in comparative European history from Brandeis University, and has published articles on British history, American history, and teaching history to ESL students.
Anna Rice, as a freshman last school year at Central High School, was the only one of its 2,200 students to compete in History Day 2002. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the same street that General Christopher C. Andrews, the focus of her paper in this issue, once did. Her other school interests include reading and writing many forms of literature, competing on math, badminton and figure skating teams, and playing tuba, baritone horn, and piano. She and her parents and younger sister, Ellen, are also devoted Minnesota Twins fans.
Sarah Rapoport entered ninth grade this fall at Ramaz Upper School in New York City. She is an avid reader of biographies, and a birthday gift of the biography of Rosalind Franklin sparked her interest in Franklin's life, leading to the paper published in this issue. She was a member of her middle school's basketball and math teams, and plays piano and oboe. She also enjoys hiking, and this summer climbed 14,000-foot Mount Greyes in Colorado.