| Notes on Contributors | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Najia Aarim-Heriot is an Associate Professor of History at SUNY–Fredonia. Her academic interests include comparative ethnic and race relations and the evolution of the racial order in the Americas. Her book, Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882, was published in 2003 with the University of Illinois Press.
Jeffrey H. Cohen is an anthropologist who studies Oaxacan migration, economics, and development. Among his many publications is The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico (Austin, TX, 2004). His current work focuses on the impacts of political unrest in rural Oaxaca and traditional foods and nutrition among Mexican immigrants.
Robert Fleegler is an instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and received his PhD in United States history from Brown University in 2005. The Journal of Mississippi History published his article on "Theodore Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938–1947" in its Spring 2006 issue. Currently, he is working on publishing his doctoral dissertation, "'A Nation of Immigrants': The Rise of Contributionism, 1924–1965." He is planning to write a second project on the cultural history of smoking since World War II.
Jon Gjerde is Morrison Professor of History and Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published The Minds of the West: The Ethnocultural Evolution of the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1997) and Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Boston, 1998) and is currently working on a manuscript focused on the meaning of anti-Catholicism in the antebellum United States.
David L. Gladstone is an Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has published numerous works on urban tourism and is the author of From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World (New York, 2005).
Ely M. Janis is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Boston College. He is currently completing his dissertation, which examines the Irish National Land League in the United States and the use of transatlantic Irish nationalism in the creation of Irish American ethnic identity in the late nineteenth century. His research interests include immigration and ethnicity, gender, transatlantic history, and social reform.
Russell Jeung is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches (New Brunswick, NJ, 2005) and other publications on race, multiethnicity, and pan–Asian American movements.
Hadassa Kosak is an Associate Professor of History at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881–1905 (Albany, NY, 2000).
Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Assistant Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Survey Research at the University of Texas, Pan American, specializes in public policy analysis, race and politics, and survey research. During the 2005–2006 academic year, she was a Ford Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Metropolitan Center at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her latest research project is a survey of the political attitudes and behaviors of Latinos and other minority groups in Florida. She is the coeditor, with William E. Nelson Jr., of Black and Latino/a Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States (Miami, FL, 2006).
Patrick Q. Mason is Assistant Professor of History at American University in Cairo. His article, "Anti-Jewish Violence in the New South," was published in Southern Jewish History in 2005. His research focuses on race, religion, and violence in American history.
Robert McGreevey is a PhD candidate in U.S. history at Brandeis University. His dissertation, a transnational history of U.S. empire in Puerto Rico, has been supported by the Bernath Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Higham Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Organization of American Historians.
Tasha Oren is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies and Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics, and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television (New Brunswick, NJ, 2004) and coeditor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (New York, 2005), Global Currents: Media and Technology Now (New Brunswick, NJ, 2004), and Global Television Formats (forthcoming).
Tim Prchal is coeditor of Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1879–1930, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. His work on American immigration literature has appeared in MELUS, Studies in American Fiction and The Progressive Era in the USA, 1890–1921. He teaches in the English Department at Oklahoma State University.
Susan C. Ryan (MA, RPA) is a research archaeologist at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. She draws on fourteen years of historic and prehistoric fieldwork in Illinois, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. She currently researches the nature and extent of Chacoan influence in the central Mesa Verde region.
Jeffery A. Smith is Professor and Chair in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power (New York, 1999) and other books. His current research is on the reactions of moral guardians to nineteenth-century journalism.
Christina Snyder is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript about captivity, identity, and race in the early American South.
Jordan Stanger-Ross is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Recently, his work on ethnicity and urban space has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of American Ethnic History. His book manuscript, "The Choreography of Community: Italian Ethnicity in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia," is currently under review for publication.
Martin Summers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses on African American history; the history of masculinity in the United States; and race, gender, and sexuality. He has written extensively on black masculinity, including Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900–1930 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2004).
Joan S. Wang is Associate Professor of History at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (jwang@ntnu.edu.tw). She has published a book and articles both in Chinese and English, including The Racism and Gender: The Experience of Chinese American Males before World War II (Taipei, 2006) and "The Characteristics of Chinese Laundries in the Eastern United States, 1882–1943," in Intercultural Relations, Cultural Transformation, and Identity: The Ethnic Chinese, ed. Teresita Ang See (Manila, 2000). Her work has appeared in American Studies International and in the Journal of American Ethnic History. Presently, Wang is working on a book about Chinese American nationalism before the 1930s.
Stephen M. Ward is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. He is completing an intellectual biography of James and Grace Lee Boggs that explores the origins, development, and legacy of the Black Power movement in Detroit.

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