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Contributors
May 2005
James Carpenter is assistant professor for social studies education in the School of Education and Human Development at Binghamton University where he also evaluates summer workshops and other ongoing activities for the Center for the Teaching of American History. His research interests include the affective nature of citizenship education in the United States. |
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Thomas Dublin is professor of history and co-director of the Center for the Teaching of American History and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at Binghamton University. His Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860 was the winner of both the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Award. He coedits the website, "Women and Social Movements in the United States" <http://womhist.binghamton.edu>. |
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Ellen Eisenberg has taught at Willamette University since 1990, and was recently named the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History. She holds a B.A. from Carleton College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882–1920 (Syracuse, 1995). Her work on western Jewish communities has appeared in American Jewish History and Journal of American Ethnic History as well as in two recent anthologies, California Jews (Brandeis University Press, 2003) and Jewish Life in the American West (Autry Museum/Heyday Books, 2002). She is currently working on a monograph to be published by the University of Washington Press on Jews in the Pacific West, with coauthors Ava Kahn and William Toll. |
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Casey Harison is associate professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville where he teaches courses in modern European and world history. He has published several articles on nineteenth-century French society, which is his main area of research. Harison received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1993. |
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Penelope Harper is project consultant for the Center for the Teaching of American History at Binghamton University. She has taught classes at Louisiana State University, Binghamton University, Trinity College and SUNY–Cortland. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Investigating the Working Woman: Middle-Class Americans and the Debate Over Women's Wage Work, 1890–1920," into a book. |
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Peter Hillis is professor of history education at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He began his career teaching in secondary schools in the west of Scotland, and before moving to the University of Strathclyde was assistant head teacher at Gleniffer High School in Paisley. Between 2002–2004 he was president of the Scottish Association of Teachers of History, and between 1997–2003 he served as principal assessor in the Scottish Qualifications Authority for the intermediate 1 and 2 history examinations. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of the Encouragment of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. His main research interests lie in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scottish church history and the application of information and communication technologies to history education. He is the author of a series of CD-ROMs on themes within Scottish history and external assessment in history. |
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Sharon Leon is research assistant professor at the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, where she also serves as associate director of World History Matters and works on a number of United States history curriculum projects. She received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and her doctorate in American studies from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation examined the responses of U.S. Catholics to the eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century. Her research interests include the history of religion and the history of science, and her work has appeared in Church History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. |
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Brenda Gayle Plummer received her Ph.D. in history at Cornell University. She is currently employed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the department of history. Plummer is the author of Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902–1915; Haiti and the United States; and Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960, and is editor of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988. Her research interests include diplomatic, African American, and Caribbean history. |
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Correction to February 2005 Issue | |
| Our apologies for inadvertently omitting the biographical statement for John J. Kulczycki, whose article "Eastern Europe in Western Civilization Textbooks: The Example of Poland" was featured in the February 2005 (Vol., 38, No. 2) issue. |
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John J. Kulczycki is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught Polish and East European history for 23 years, with a particular emphasis on modern nationalism, its manifestations and consequences. He received his Ph.D. "with distinction" from Columbia University in 1973. He is the author of three monographs and numerous articles on Polish-German relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as several articles on the creation of an ethnically homogeneous Poland after World War II, his current book project. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1963–1965 and maintains a lively interest in that country. |
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