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Contributors
November 2005
Jesse Freedman is a member of the upper school history faculty at Friends Select School in Philadelphia where he offers courses in European and American history. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 2003 with a B.A. in history. In 2005 he was selected to participate in the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's seminar, "America Between the Wars," held at Columbia University.
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Stephen J. Frese is a junior at Marshalltown High School in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he is involved in band, basketball, soccer, Science Olympiad, National History Day, National Honor Society, and The World Food Prize Youth Institute. He is also the gold medal winner in the 2005 senior division of the National History Day Competition. The "Communication in History: The Key to Understanding" theme for this year's contest offered Frese an opportunity to explore a facet of history that impacted previous generations of his own family who settled in Iowa, speaking German as their first language. It also allowed him to make connections to the current language debate as it relates to Spanish-speaking immigrants in his community. His winning essay this year was his fourth entry in National History Day, and all of his papers have explored topics with Iowa connections. In 2002 Stephen won the junior division silver medal with his paper about child labor in Iowa coal mining communities. In 2003 he won the junior division gold with his paper about Aldo Leopold (featured in the November 2003 issue of The History Teacher), and in 2004 he won the senior division gold medal with his paper about the relationship cultivated between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Iowa farmer Roswell Garst during the height of the Cold War (featured in the November 2004 issue of The History Teacher).
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Russell Olwell is associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. in the history of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is past president of the Michigan Council for History Education.
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Patrick Rael is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he has taught for ten years. He offers courses in the history of African Americans, the nineteenth-century United States, and slavery. He is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and his online guides for history writing—Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students—are available at <http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/>. Rael earned his Ph.D. in American history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995.
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Tony Waters is associate professor and chair of the department of sociology at California State University, Chico, where he teaches courses in ethnicity, population, and social theory. He is the author of Crime and Immigrant Youth (1999), Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan (2001), and The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace (forthcoming, 2006). From 2003-2004 he was a Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and from 1999–2002 he was codirector of Resources in International Studies Education (RISE), a California Subject Matter Program. Waters' received his Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of California, Davis in 1995.
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David J. Weber is Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas <www.smu.edu/swcenter>. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of New Mexico in 1967, and is author or editor of twenty-two books, most focusing on southwestern America. He is a past president of the Western History Association, and the only American historian elected to membership in both the Mexican Academy of History and the Society of American Historians. In 2005 Weber received the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals, the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca, for his contributions to Mexican history. In 2002 King Juan Carlos of Spain named him to the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica, the Spanish equivalent of a knighthood. Weber's faculty website is <http://faculty.smu.edu/dweber>.
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| Lumeng (Jenny) Yu was born in Beijing, China, and now lives in Plainsboro, New Jersey, where she attends ninth grade at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. She is also the gold medal winner in the 2005 junior division of the National History Day competition. She learned about NHD from Dr. Joan Ruddiman, facilitator of PRISM, or the gifted and talented program, at Thomas R. Grover Middle School. Yu chose to participate in the contest because it allows students to research any topic that fascinates them, and because she says she enjoys school, but always look for challenges beyond what it has to offer. As a child, she read an extensive number of biographies, so when she chose her NHD topic, Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood out as an important and intriguing person to research. Because the NHD theme this year was "Communication in History: The Key to Understanding," she decided to focus on FDR's fireside chats, declaration of war on Japan address, and relationship with the press. Throughout her research, she analyzed the text and recording of FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech, as well as the texts of his fireside chats, and also read many newspapers from the time. |
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