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Contributors
May 2004
Elizabeth Green Musselman is assistant professor of history at Southwestern University. Her book manuscript, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in the Industrial Age, is under contract with State University of New York Press. She currently researches European and African conceptions of nature in the Cape Colony and the world historiography of natural knowledge. |
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W. Dirk Raat is professor emeritus at the State University of New York in Fredonia and adjunct professor at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah in 1967, and subsequently taught at the university level in Minnesota and Utah, in addition to New York. The author of eight books on the history of Mexico and Mexico-United States relations, his most recent publication is Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge. He has also produced several videos, including "Voyaging Through the Tarahumara Heartland," recipient of the Communicator Award of Distinction in 1997. A member of the World History Association, Raat has been retraining himself in global history since 1995. In 1998 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant that funded a faculty seminar on world history at SUNY Fredonia. Raat lives in Surprise, Arizona. |
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Kirwin Shaffer is assistant professor of Latin American Studies and co-coordinator of global studies at Penn State University–Berks/Lehigh Valley. He teaches history and culture courses that focus especially on Cuba and the Caribbean as well as courses on Latin American sports culture and literature and film in Latin America. He is completing a book-length manuscript on anarchism and cultural politics in Cuba during the first thirty years following independence, and has published several articles on various aspects of Cuban anarchism. |
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Joel M. Sipress is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he teaches broadly in United States and Latin American history. He earned his Ph.D. in United States history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. He received the University of Wisconsin–Superior's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997 and held a University of Wisconsin Teaching Fellowship during the 1999–2000 academic year. |
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James D. Tagg is professor emeritus at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1973, and taught American history at the University of Lethbridge from 1969 through 2003. His primary research has been on the early republic (1789–1815), although he has also conducted research and published in the area of southern Alberta local history. His major work is Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora (1991). He is currently working on the implications of sex in the political vision of Gouverneur Morris, and on the American response to the French Revolution. |
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Deborah Vess is a professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Georgia College and State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas, and has published articles on medieval monasticism and philosophy in The American Benedictine Review, Word and Spirit, Mystics Quarterly, The Modern Schoolman, and The Encyclopedia of Monasticism. She has also published articles on teaching and learning issues in The History Teacher, Teaching History, Inventio, and Proteus. In 1996 she received the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning Award, and recently received the University System's Board of Regents Research in Undergraduate Education Award. In addition to numerous local awards for teaching, she has received two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development, and in 1999 was named a Carnegie Scholar through the Pew National Fellowship program and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Vess is the author of two online core courses for the University System of Georgia, one of which received an international exemplary course award from WEBCT. |
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