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Contributors
August 2006
Stephen Robertson is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he teaches courses dealing with U.S. history since 1865, childhood and youth in modern America, and the history of New York City, as well as American history on the web. He received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Otago in New Zealand and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1998. He held a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Bar Foundation and the JNG Finley Fellowship at George Mason University and taught at Massey University in New Zealand for a semester before coming to Sydney in 2000. Robertson initiated and is coeditor of the "Teaching American Studies" section of the Australasian Journal of American Studies, and coordinator of "American History for Australian Schools," a joint project of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association and the History Teachers Associations of Australia to create online resources for high school teachers. His first book was Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). His current research is a collaborative project with three colleagues at Sydney on everyday life in 1920s Harlem, which will result in a web site as well as a monograph.
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Joseph Coohill is assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington. He received his doctorate in modern history at Oxford and specializes in nineteenth-century British politics and culture.
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Sandy Hoover is graduate part-time instructor at Texas Tech University where he is also pursuing a Ph.D. in the history of the American West. He earned an M.A. from Oklahoma State University. He would like to thank Dr. Gretchen Adams for her guidance, the TEACH program at Tech for its support of this project, and his wife Jenny Hoover for her help in compiling data, her never-ending patience, and her steady encouragement.
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Deborah Vess is a professor of history and coordinator of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Georgia College & State University. She has published articles in Inventio, The History Teacher, Teaching History, The American Benedictine Review, Proteus, Mystics Quarterly, Word and Spirit, Communication Education, and The Modern Schoolman. She is also the author of two world civilization textbooks for the AP and SAT II exams. Vess is a University System of Georgia Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning (1996), and in 2001 won the University System's Board of Regents' Research in Undergraduate Education Award. In addition to numerous other awards for teaching, she was named a 1999–2000 Carnegie Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She holds a Ph.D. in European history from the University of North Texas.
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Kelly Ann Long is an assistant professor at Colorado State University she teaches U.S. History, Pacific Wars, U.S.-China Relations, and the Social Studies Methods for teaching course. Drawing on 18 years of high school teaching experience, she works extensively with in-service educators through TAH and other sponsors. In addition to historical publications, she has published a number of articles pertaining to history education and pedagogy. She received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1998.
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Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and in 2005–2006 served as Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at the University of Oxford. She is codirector of the award-winning website, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600–2000, which contains an extensive section of "Teaching Tools" and will soon launch an innovative discussion group about teaching U.S. women's history. Her new book, The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869–1931, will be published in 2007.
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Donna M. Binkiewicz is a lecturer in the history department at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches a variety of recent U.S. history courses, California history, and methodology of history. She also supervises student teachers earning their single subject credential in social science education. Her research focuses on contemporary American politics and culture. Binkiewicz is the author of Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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| Stephen M. Woodburn has been an assistant professor at Southwestern College (Kansas) since 2003. He has also taught world history at Miami University (Ohio), and was a visiting professor at Wheaton College. He completed his Ph.D. in Russian and world history at Miami University in 2001. |
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