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Contributors
August 2005
Michelle D. Deardorff is associate professor of political science at Jackson State University where her teaching and research focus on the constitutional protections surrounding gender and race. Her work on departmental and classroom assessment has been published in the Journal of Political Science Education and PS: Political Science and Politics. She serves on the board of the American Political Science Association's section on undergraduate education. Deardorff earned her Ph.D. in political science from Miami University in 1993.
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Joe P. Dunn is the Charles A. Dana professor of history and politics and department chair at Converse College, a small liberal arts women's college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He has published five books and more than 50 articles, several of the latter on innovative teaching. He is the recipient of several teaching and scholarship awards at the institutional, state, and national level, and has conducted several teaching seminars. He was recently visiting professor of history at the University of Iceland. Dunn received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
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Jada Kohlmeier teaches social studies teacher education at Auburn University. She previously taught high school history and social studies for ten years. Her research fields include problem-centered social studies instruction, women's history in 7–12 curriculum, and historical thinking. She earned her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Kansas, with a minor in women's history.
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Jeffrey Kolnick is associate professor of history at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he has been working since 1992, and is a five-time winner of the campus teaching award. He has published on labor and political history and given papers on teaching citizenship, labor, and African American history at several conferences. Kolnick earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history from U.C. Davis.
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Leslie Burl McLemore is professor of political science at Jackson State University. As a teacher, researcher and lecturer, he is an authority on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was vice-chair of its original delegation to the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. Currently he serves as president of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi and also mentors young men through the Jackson Chapter of the 100 Black Men of America. McLemore earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts.
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Thandekile R.M. Mvusi is associate professor of history at Jackson State University. A senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Swaziland from 1999–2001, she is a social historian whose research includes the social construction of race, gender, and class in the southern United States and southern Africa. She has published in African labor history, edited a volume on the African Diaspora, and been a reviewer for the Public Historian. Mvusi earned her Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University.
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Joseph M. Piro is assistant professor of education in the department of curriculum and instruction at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Columbia University where he studied issues in teacher practice, especially those relating to school curricula and classroom instruction. He has written on models of school-museum collaborations and the role of the arts in school reform and restructure, and has developed teaching guides with cultural institutions such as The Asia Society and Museum and The New York City Opera that connect core content in social studies to the arts. He also has created interdisciplinary programs that use art to teach history, one of which has been named a "promising practice" by the Sharing Success network of the New York State Department of Education.
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Robert Stephens is an assistant professor in the department of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research focuses on youth culture and drug consumption in West Germany after the Second World War, including recent articles in The Journal of Cultural Values and the edited volume Consuming Germany in the Cold War. He also works on the Digital History Reader, a NEH-funded project housed at Virginia Tech, which involves a large interdisciplinary team of historians, education professors, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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Joshua Stephen Thumma was born and raised in Middletown, Maryland. He attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history. He currently lives and works in the Washington, DC area and plans on pursuing an advanced degree in education.
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Ting Man Tsao is assistant professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. He holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His dissertation "Representing China to the British Public in the Age of Free Trade, c. 1833–1844" examines the intersections between Britain's popular representations of China and its foreign policy during the Opium War. His scholarly and creative work appears in Peer English (forthcoming), Victorians Institute Journal, and Writing Macao.
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