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Contributors
May 2006
Ron Briley is assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught American history and film studies for 27 years. His pieces on teaching, film and sport history have appeared in various academic journals and collections. He is also the author of Class at Bat, Race in the Hole, and Gender on Deck: A Line Up of Essays on Twentieth-Century Culture and America's Game (2003). A version of his piece in this issue on The Fires of Jubliee was originally prepared for the 1999 Stratford Hall Plantation Seminar on Slavery conducted by Professor Philip J. Schwarz.
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Sarah Drake Brown is assistant professor of social science education at Florida State University. Her research focuses on historical cognition, civic education and the history of education. She holds a Ph.D. in curriculum studies from Indiana University.
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Michael Eamon is the former manager of the Virtual Exhibitions and Partnerships Section that developed interpretive and educational websites for Library and Archives Canada (LAC). He holds degrees in history from universities in Canada and a degree in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. Passionate about historical interpretation and education, he has exhibited the LAC collections to both students and dignitaries, including President and Laura Bush. He has also published and taught in the area of archival theory. He is currently on leave at Queen's University, Kingston pursuing further studies in colonial history and enjoying being a first-time father.
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Melissa Amy Maestri is adjunct assistant professor of history at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, where she teaches world history. She earned her master of science for teachers degree in secondary social studies, and has taught American history in New York State public schools. Her research interests include comparative slavery and the way in which educators implement race and gender into their curriculum.
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Robert M. Schwartz teaches history at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. His Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France won the 1989 David H. Pinkney Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies. He coedited with Robert Schneider Tocqueville and Beyond: Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien (2003), and has published several articles on rural communities in 18th and 19th century. He is currently revising an article for The American Historical Review on his research on railways entitled "History and Geography: Railways, Uneven Geographical Development, Cultural Change, and Globalization in Great Britain and France, 1830–1914."
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Shuo Wang has been assistant professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus since 2002, and teaches Chinese history, Japanese history, East Asian history, and world civilizations. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian history from Michigan State University with a focus on premodern Chinese history. Her research interests include gender, ethnicity and acculturation in the Qing dynasty, and she has published articles about Manchu women.
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