| Notes on Contributors | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. His latest book, coauthored with Victor Nee, is Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Cambridge, MA, 2003).
Eiichiro Azuma is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford, 2005).
Vibha Bhalla is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests focus primarily on gender, migration, and the ways urban political economies shape immigrant settlements. She is currently working on her manuscript on Indian immigrants in metropolitan Detroit.
Alfred L. Brophy teaches law at the University of Alabama. His most recent book is Reparations Pro and Con (New York, 2006), and he is completing a study of moral philosophy in the Old South, tentatively titled "University, Court, and Slave."
Dominic Candeloro is the founder and current editor of H-ItAm listserv and the author of three books and numerous articles on Italian Americans. He earned his PhD in U.S. history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Candeloro was Director of the NEH-funded "Italians in Chicago" Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has served as President and as Executive Director of the American Italian Historical Association. His awards include a Fulbright Fellowship (Italy) and the Studs Terkel Humanities Award (Illinois Humanities Council). After retiring from Governors State University, he is now affiliated with the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia in the Chicago suburb of Stone Park.
Maria Chávez is an assistant professor of political science at Pacific Lutheran University. Her articles have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Latino Studies, and Bar News. She has also published chapters in Black and Latina/o Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States (Miami, FL, 2005), edited by William E. Nelson Jr. and Jessica Lavariega Monforti, and in Latinos and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara, CA, 2004), edited by Sharon A. Navarro and Armando X. Mejia. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Latino Lawyers and the American Dream: Mobility, Assimilation, and Civic Engagement."
Sam Erman received his AB from Harvard University in May 2000 and his JD from the University of Michigan in May 2007. A candidate in the PhD Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, he is in the process of completing a dissertation concerning the legal history of claims around U.S. citizenship involving Puerto Ricans between 1898 and 1917.
Tiffany M. Gill is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Centers for African and African American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is completing her book manuscript on the social, political, and economic activism of beauticians in African American communities titled Civic Beauty: Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African American Female Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
Cherisse Jones-Branch is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She has written several articles on black and white women's racial activism and is currently revising her dissertation, titled "'Repairers of the Breach': Black and White Women and Racial Activism in South Carolina, 1940s–1960s."
Patrice H. Kunesh, of Standing Rock Sioux Hunkpapa Lakota descent, is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota School of Law and Director of the University's Institute of American Indian Studies. She has published several legal articles and book reviews and is a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of the United States: American Indian Policy, Relations, and Law (Congressional Quarterly Press). She is currently working on a chapter titled "Maps as Legal Documents in Indian Affairs" for a book being organized by the Smithsonian Institute on the cartography of Indian affairs.
Sharon S. Lee (MA, History, University of Wisconsin at Madison) is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include Asian Americans in higher education, higher education policy analysis, issues of access and diversity, the history of education, and campus climate.
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is an assistant professor of history and comparative American studies at Oberlin College. She is completing a manuscript on Japanese Americans and cosmopolitanism in pre–World War II Seattle, Washington.
Shira Kohn Levy is a doctoral candidate in New York University's joint PhD Program in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is writing her dissertation on Jewish sororities in postwar America.
Haiming Liu is a professor of Asian American studies at the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. He teaches a variety of courses in ethnic studies and Asian American studies. He is the author of The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration (New Brunswick, NJ, 2005) and published many articles on Chinese American family life, social origins of Chinese migration, Chinese herbal medicine in the United States, transnationalism and Chinese American historiography, and American-born Chinese identity in the 1930s.
Suzanne Model is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her forthcoming book, West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? (Russell Sage Foundation), examines why West Indians have stronger economic outcomes than African Americans. Her new research utilizes cross-national comparisons to study immigrants of West Indian heritage in North America and Europe.
Judith Perez is a PhD candidate in sociology at Fordham University, concentrating in race and ethnic studies. She recently completed a fellowship with the Smithsonian Latino Center. She also maintains an appointment as an adjunct?lecturer in the Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
Mario Rios Perez holds a BA degree from UCLA and an MA degree from the University of Redlands. He is completing a PhD degree in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he specializes in the history of race and urban schools and the history of higher education.
Michael Phillips, a former journalist, received his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006, the University of Texas Press published his first book, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001, which in 2007 received the Texas Historical Commission's T. R. Fehrenbach Award.
Uzma Quraishi is currently a history graduate student at the University of Houston. She studies the history of Indian and Pakistani immigration to Houston, Texas.
Dale Rosengarten is director of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston library and curator of the exhibition "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life" (2002). She coedited, with her husband Theodore Rosengarten, a book of the same name (Columbia, SC, 2002).
R. Bruce Shepard is a sixth-generation descendent of Orkney Scottish fur traders and their First Nations partners. His book, Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality Only to Find Racism in Their New Home (Toronto, 1995), examines the migration of African Americans to the Canadian Plains. He is currently the Director of Research, Collections and Exhibits at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
William H. Siener is a visiting scholar in the History Department at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York. He also serves as Erie County (New York) Historian and was Executive Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society for twenty years. His research interests focus on issues related to the Canadian-American border. Among his earlier publications are The Red Scare Revisited: Radicals and the Anti-Radical Movement in Buffalo, 1919–1920.
Deborah R. Weiner is Research Historian and Family History Coordinator at the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore. Her book, Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2006. She received a PhD in History from West Virginia University in 2002.

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