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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Charlotte Brooks is Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. She has published articles about Japanese American resettlement during World War II and Chinese Americans in Cold War California's suburbs. She is currently completing her book, Alien Neighbors or Foreign Friends? Asian Americans and Housing in Twentieth-Century California (Chicago, forthcoming).
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Tara Browner is the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow (Champaign, IL, 2002) and editor of Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America (forthcoming). She is currently completing a musical edition drawn from powwow performance for the series Music in the United States of America. She has also published in several major journals, including Ethnomusicology, the Journal of Musicological Research, and American Music. In addition to her scholarly activities, she is a powwow dancer in the Women's Southern Cloth tradition and a professional percussionist and timpanist.
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Lori A. Flores is a third-year graduate student in history at Stanford University working under Professor Albert Camarillo. Her field of specialty is Mexican American/Chicana history with a focus on the intersections of race, labor, community, gender, and civil rights. A 2005 graduate of Yale University, Flores has received the New York Labor History Association's Barbara Wertheimer Prize for her manuscript, "An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexican American and Anglo Women Garment Workers against Tex-Son, 1959–1963."
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John Kantner is Vice President of the School for Advanced Research. An anthropological archaeologist, he has conducted field research throughout the United States and Central America and currently directs the Lobo Mesa Archaeological Project in west-central New Mexico. His most recent book is Ancient Puebloan Southwest (Cambridge, 2004).
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Russell A. Kazal is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Scarborough, and a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of History, University of Toronto. He is the author of Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (Princeton, NJ, 2004). His other publications include "Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History," American Historical Review (April 1995). Kazal's current research explores the emergence of popular notions of ethnic pluralism in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States.
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Maria C. Lizzi is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University at Albany. Her research examines interpretations of the New Ethnic movement and its relationship to urban crisis, with a particular focus on the experience of New York City's Italian Americans. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled "Fighting for Lawn Madonnas and Fig Trees: When the Italian Americans of East New York and Corona Became 'New Ethnics.'"
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Royden Loewen is Professor of History and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg. His books include Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Disjuncture (Toronto, 2006) and other works comparing the rural Mennonite immigrants in Canada and the U.S. He is coauthor of Immigrants in Prairie Cities: A History of Canadian Cultural Diversity, 1900–2000 (forthcoming). He has held visiting scholar posts at the universities of Chicago (1995), Victoria (2003), and Guelph (2007).
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John McKiernan-Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His work in progress, "Rights of Passage: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican Border, 1848–1942," examines why public health became a key staging ground for conflicts over the nation's borders, citizenship, mobility, and modernity.
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Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University. She is a historian who has published widely on the history of Afro-diasporic communities. She is the editor of Technofuturos: Critical Interventions In Latina/o Studies (Lanham, MD, 2007) and is completing a manuscript, "Hemispheric Notions: Diaspora, Masculinity, and the Racial Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823–1901."
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Roger L. Nichols is Professor of American History at the University of Arizona. He has written widely on American ethnic and Native American issues. His recent books include Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans, 4th ed. (Oxford, 2003), and American Indians in U.S. History (Norman, OK, 2003).
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Laura M. Stevens is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and editor of the journal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. She is the author of The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (Philadelphia, 2004).
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| Carolyn Wong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton College. She is the author of Lobbying for Inclusion: Rights Politics and the Making of Immigration Policy (Palo Alto, CA, 2006). Currently she is writing a book manuscript on the contemporary political history of Hmong refugee and immigrant communities in the United States. |
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