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Contributors
August 2004
Jonathan M. Chu is associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. An early American specialist, he has written on many subjects including early treatment of religious dissent in early New England and the Chinese Exclusion Act. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright grants, Chu has served as chair of the Advanced Placement United States history test development committee and is currently at work on the legal and economic impact of the American Revolution. |
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Mary E. Frederickson is associate professor of history at Miami University of Ohio. Since 1988, she has been teaching courses there on women's history, race, ethnicity and the United States survey. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is currently chairing the A.P. U.S. history test development committee. |
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Michael Grossberg is professor of history and law at Indiana University and editor of the American Historical Review. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University in 1979. He teaches courses in American legal and social history as well as the first half of the U.S. history survey. Grossberg has also published several articles on scholarly editing and is a founder of the History Cooperative, an electronic publishing project devoted to historical scholarship. |
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Charles F. Howlett was recently appointed assistant professor of graduate education at Molloy College after 27 years at Amityville Memorial High School where he served as A.P. teacher and history department head. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University at Albany and an Ed.M. in public policy from Columbia. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Teaching Fellow, and recipient of an Albert J. Beveridge research grant and NEH grant. Howlett is also the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, and recently was awarded the Chuck Yeager Award in aerospace education. |
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Michael Johanek is executive director for K-12 professional development at the College Board, serving more than 130,000 high school teachers, administrators, counselors and college faculty. A former high school social studies teacher in Cleveland, New York City and Lima, Peru, he has also taught graduate courses and administered pre-service programs to teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University. He occasionally teaches education history and policy as adjunct assistant professor at New York University. Johanek's publications include "Accounting for Citizenship," "The State of Civic Education: Preparing Citizens in an Era of Accountability," "Private Citizenship and School Choice," "The Evolution of College Entrance Examinations," and "School-College Connections: Deweyan Waste, Limited Pipelines, and Intellectual Vitality." He edited A Faithful Mirror: Reflections on the College Board and Education in America, a volume of historical essays relating to school-college issues. With support from the Spencer Foundation, he is coauthoring a book on the history of community-centered schooling. |
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John F. Lyons is associate professor of history at Joliet Junior College in Illinois where he teaches U.S. history to 1865, U.S. history since 1865, world history to 1500, world history since 1500, and Latin American history. He was born in London, England, and obtained a B.Sc. degree from Salford University and an M.A. from Warwick University. He then earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lyon's major research interests are U.S. labor history and comparative history, and he is currently preparing a book on Chicago public schoolteachers and labor activism in the twentieth century. |
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Julie Taylor is assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan–Dearborn where she teaches secondary social studies methods and multicultural education. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Taylor has authored articles in the fields of both education and history, as well as the book, Muslims in Italy (2003). She is a member of the American Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society, and the National Council for the Social Studies. |
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Samuel J. Thomas is professor of American history at Michigan State University where he teaches a variety of courses, including a senior seminar, "Mirrors of the Gilded Age: Political Cartoons as Primary Sources and Texts." He has authored many scholarly articles, most recently "Mugwump Cartoonists, the Papacy, and Tammany Hall in America's Gilded Age," Religion in American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol 14 (Summer, 2004). Currently he is working on a book-length research project entitled American Catholicism in the 1960s: Responding to Dissent in an Age of Reform. |
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Diane C. Vecchio is associate professor of history at Furman University. She earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history at Syracuse University where she wrote a dissertation on Italian immigrant women under the direction of John W. Briggs. Recent publications include a chapter titled, "Gender, Domestic Values and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Businesswomen and Midwives," in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (2002); "Gender and Transnational Ties: An Italian Family Saga of Emigration Across the Twentieth Century," in Selected Essays published by the American Italian Historical Association, January 2003; and "Migration from the Mountain: Building a Local Labor Force," in Textile Town: An Encyclopedia of Spartanburg County Cotton Mill Culture (2002). Vecchio's forthcoming book, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America, will be published by the University of Illinois Press. Her involvement with the A.P. examination in U.S. history has included serving as chief reader and as chief faculty consultant. She also is treasurer of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. |
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Uma Venkateswaran is an assessment specialist in the history and social science group at Educational Testing Service. She has been subject matter specialist in U.S. history for the A.P., SAT II and CLEP programs for the past 10 years. She received her doctorate in U.S. history from Case Western Reserve University and B.A. from Madras University, India. Prior to joining ETS, Venkateswaran taught part-time at Monmouth University and Hunter College. She would like to thank Rick Morgan, a measurement specialist at Educational Testing Service, for his help with this project. |
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