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Contributors
November 2003
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Brian Black is associate professor of environmental studies
and history at the Altoona College of Penn State University and
serves as editor of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic
Studies. Black completed his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas,
M.A. at New York University, and his B.A. at Gettysburg College,
Pennsylvania. He is the author of the prize-winning Petrolia:
the Landscape of America's First Oil Boom, which was recently
released in paperback by Johns Hopkins University Press. Currently,
he is writing Contesting Gettysburg, a study of the land-use
and management of the battlefield. His other research interests
include nineteenth-century whaling, New Deal land planning, and
issues relating to energy development past and present.
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Richard C. Foltz is associate professor of religion, history, natural resources and Asian studies at the University of Florida. His Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern studies is from Harvard University. He has edited Islam and Ecology (2003) and Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment (2002), and is author of Religions of the Silk Road (1999) and Mughal India and Central Asia (1998). He is currently editing volumes on environmentalism in Iran and in the Muslim world, and writing an authored book on Iran and world religions. |
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Stephen Frese is a freshman at Marshalltown High School in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he is involved in golf, basketball, and soccer. He enjoys historical research that takes him to such places of interest to him as the Leopold shack and farm. He praises everyone he worked with on his paper for National History Day—archivists, librarians, and members of the Leopold family, for example—for treating him and his research with the same respect as if he had been a professional historian instead of an eighth grader. His paper was enjoyable for him to write and gave him many opportunities to present programs on his topic. This is his second entry in National History Day. Last year he won the silver medal for his paper on child labor in Iowa coal mining communities. Now he is working on a project for the 2004 NHD competition. |
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Marcus Hall is a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Research Institute in Zurich. He earned his doctorate in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1999. He has subsequently taught environmental history and participated in environmental programs at the Universities of Alaska and Bologna, and European University Institute (Florence). Recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize (American Society for Environmental History) and the Ray Allen Billington Prize (Western History Association), he is completing a book about the history of environmental restoration (forthcoming, 2004). |
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Jeremiah Kittredge attends Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Much of his high school life has been spent debating competitively, making issues of American foreign policy extremely interesting to him. However, after a year of American history, he became increasingly interested in Constitutional History. Given the topical nature of war-powers, he believed the topic of his National History Day paper would be interesting to explore, and he enjoyed the experience of preparing it and spending a week in College Park. |
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Kathryn Morse is assistant professor of history at Middlebury College, where she teaches courses in American history and environmental studies. She received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1997, and is the author of The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (2003). |
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Ronn Pineo is a professor of history at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is author of Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil, 1870–1925 (1996) and contributing co-editor (with James Baer) of Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870–1930 (1998). He is completing a study of U.S./Ecuadorian relations for the "United States and the Americas" series by University of Georgia Press. Professor Pineo received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000–2001. He completed a Ph.D. in history in 1987 at the University of California, Irvine. |
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Robert M. Rakoff has taught since 1979 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he currently is professor of politics and environmental studies. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He taught previously at the University of Illinois–Chicago and worked at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His teaching and research interests include the political economy of land use and planning, environmental history and policy, and the cultural construction of the countryside. His recent publications focus on the politics of farmland preservation. |
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Mark Stemen is coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program at California State University, Chico, and assistant professor in the department of geography. He teaches historical geography, geography of the American West, and a new course he created, "The Nature of Restoration." He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa in 1999 with a dissertation entitled Genetic Dreams: An Environmental History of the California Cotton Industry, 1902–1953. He lives in Chico with his wife and two daughters. |
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Ellis Archer Wasson is head of the history department at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Deleware. He also teaches at the University of Delaware. His Ph.D. is from Cambridge University. He has published Whig Renaissance (1987), Born to Rule: British Political Elites (2000), and a student guide for the AP European History Examination. He has been a consultant for the College Board AP program since 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. |
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