Ben Alexander is a full-time lecturer at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. He received his PhD in history from the City University of New York. He is currently at work on the book version of his dissertation on Armenian American experiences, as well as on a second book that will focus on the politics of ethnicity in mid-twentieth-century America.
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Carol Allen is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University, where she teaches writing, literature, and Africana Studies. She received her PhD from Rutgers University and has published Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner (New York, 1998) and Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000 (New York, 2005). Currently she is working on fiction and poetry.
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Kenneth Aslakson received his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2007. His dissertation is titled "Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans's Three-Caste Society, 1791–1812." In Fall 2007 he will begin an assistant professorship at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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Lisa García Bedolla is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University. She is author of Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (Berkeley, CA, 2005), which won the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the best book in political science on ethnic and cultural pluralism and a best book award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section. Her research focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos and other racial/ethnic groups in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of race, class, and gender.
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Matthew M. Briones is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is revising a manuscript about the history of race relations in the 1940s based on the diaries of Nisei intellectual Charles Kikuchi for Princeton University Press. He received his PhD in American Civilization from Harvard University in 2005.
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Joanna Brooks is the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (New York, 2003) and editor of The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America (New York, 2006).
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Kirsten Matoy Carlson is a Rackham Merit Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She holds a National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Grant to finish her dissertation on constitutional change and was formerly Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.
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Patricia Coronel is Associate Professor of Art History at Colorado State University who studies and publishes in the areas of modern and contemporary art and the native arts of the United States and Africa.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emeritus in Ethnic Studies, California State University. Her publications include Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Norman, OK, 2006); Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico (Norman, OK, 2007); The Great Sioux Nation: Oral History of the Sioux-United States Treaty of l868 (Berkeley, CA, 1977); Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination (New York, 1984); and a forthcoming volume, Home of the Brave: Indigenous History of the United States (Boston, MA).
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David Emmons is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Montana and the author of The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925 (Urbana, IL, 1989).
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Kim Geron is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, East Bay. He currently teaches courses in public policy and public administration. His research interests are in the areas of racial politics and social movements.
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Walter Greason is Assistant Professor of History and Coordinator of the African American and Africana Studies Program at Ursinus College. He has recently presented work at the Organization of American Historians conference on "accults"—impoverished suburbs—in New Jersey during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Mark I. Greenberg is director of the Special Collections Department and Florida Studies Center at the University of South Florida Tampa Library. He has authored several works on American Jewish history and recently co-edited Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History (Waltham, MA, 2006) with Marcie Cohen Ferris.
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John Herron is Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
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Lane Ryo Hirabayashi currently holds an endowed chair as the George & Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community at the University of California at Los Angeles where he also chairs the Asian American Studies Department. He and Kenichiro Shimada are currently finishing a book on WRA resettlement photographs taken between 1943 and 1945.
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Ollie Johnson received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and teaches Africana Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964 (Gainesville, FL, 2001) and co-editor of Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Piscataway, NJ, 2002).
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James J. Lorence is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. He has published widely in the fields of labor and film history. Among his recent works are Screening America: United States History through Film Since 1900 (White Plains, NY, 2006) and Suppression of "Salt of the Earth": How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Film in Cold War America (Albuquerque, NM, 1999).
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Dawn Lyon is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. She has published in the field of gender and work and is editor (with Luisa Passerini, Enrica Capussotti, and Ioanna Laliotou) of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility, and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Oxford, UK, 2007).
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Charles D. Martin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. He is the author of The White African American Body (Piscataway, NJ, 2002). He is currently researching a book on the mummy and the American racial imagination.
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Fraser M. Ottanelli is Professor of United States History at the University of South Florida. He has written extensively on U.S. radical and ethnic history and is currently working on a book-length study on Italian American labor and identity from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II. He also serves on the executive committee of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at New York University.
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Jeffrey A. Ow is a faculty member in Asian American Studies at the City College of San Francisco. He is currently working on a manuscript about preservation efforts at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
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Vu H. Pham is the founder and head of Spectrum Knowledge, Inc. and is the Director and Curator of the Smithsonian Vietnamese American Heritage Project. He currently serves as a researcher in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine and is affiliated with the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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John Radzilowski is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alaska Southeast and the author of several books on U.S. and Polish history.
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Anju Reejhsinghani is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation examines Cuban boxing from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Cuban Revolution.
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Ronald Schultz teaches U.S. ethnic and women's history at the University of Wyoming. His latest projects include a U.S. survey textbook, American Encounters (Belmont, CA, forthcoming); a trade book, "Spending Capital: How Outsiders Make a Place for Themselves in American Life" (under review); and a Web project, Teaching 2.0: Education on the Collaborative Web (www.teaching20.com; 2006). He can be reached at: amerencounters@gmail.com.
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Kenichiro Shimada completed a master's degree in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003. Subsequently, he completed a Master's in Library Science with an Archives concentration. He currently works in the Gordon W. Prange Collection's Japanese-language materials gathered during the Occupation, held at the University of Maryland Libraries.
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Dr. Thérèse Smith is Senior Lecturer in Music/Ethnomusicology at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on African American music and Irish traditional music. Her recent book, "Let the Church Sing!": Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community, was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2004.
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Jeff Strickland is Assistant Professor of History at Montclair State University. He completed his PhD at Florida State University in 2003. He is currently working on a book manuscript about the history of race and ethnicity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860–1880.
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Michael E. Veal is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Yale University, where he specializes in African music and the African diaspora. He is the author of Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon (Philadelphia, PA, 2000) and Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaica Reggae (Middletown, CT, 2007).
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Janelle Wong is author of Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006) and Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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| Philip Yang is Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University. He is the author of Ethnic Studies: Issues and Approaches (Albany, NY, 2000) and Post-1965 Immigration to the United States: Structural Determinants (Westport, CT, 1995). He has published over forty articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes on topics such as immigration, race and ethnic studies, Asian Americans/immigrants, Chinese Americans/immigrants, citizenship acquisition, transnationalism, and demography. |
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