| Notes on Contributors | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.1

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Kristen Anderson is a PhD candidate and Presidential Fellow at the University of Iowa. She is in the process of finishing her dissertation, which is titled "German Americans, African Americans, and the Formation of Racial Identity in Nineteenth-century St. Louis, 1848–1872."
Clarissa W. Confer, PhD, teaches American history at California University of Pennsylvania. Her recent book, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War (Norman, OK, 2007), explores the social history of Cherokee Indians during the turmoil of internal and external division. Her latest book project is a social history of the earliest Native Americans.
Darius V. Echeverría (PhD, Temple University, 2006) has since 2006 taught at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with an initial appointment in the Department of History. A year later, he joined the faculty of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies. His published scholarship focuses on inequality and social policy, identity formation, and political consciousness, particularly as they relate to Latina/o Studies and Mexican American history.
Violet M. Showers Johnson is Professor of History and Africana Studies and Chair of the History Department at Agnes Scott College, where she teaches courses on race, ethnicity and immigration, African American history, and the history of the African diaspora. Her scholarly work focuses on black immigrants in the United States. She is author of The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900–1950 (Bloomington, IN, 2006). Johnson is currently collaborating with Marilyn Halter on "The Newest African Americans," a study of issues of identity formation and socioeconomic incorporation among recent West African immigrants and refugees to the United States.
Walter D. Kamphoefner is Professor of History at Texas A & M University, specializing in the field of immigration and ethnicity. His first book was a pioneering study involving the transatlantic tracing of immigrants, The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (Princeton, NJ, 1987), which also appeared in two German editions (1982, 2006). He has worked extensively with immigrant letters, having coedited two book-length collections in both German and English. The latest, Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home (Chapel Hill, NC, 2006), is a nationwide anthology of immigrant letters by soldiers and civilians, North and South.
Hartmut Keil is Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Leipzig. His research focuses on nineteenth-century immigration, labor, and social history, especially the impact of German socialist immigrants on the American labor movement. In 1979–1988 he headed the ambitious Chicago Project, which led to his best-known English publications, both coedited with John B. Jentz: German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850–1910: A Comparative Perspective (DeKalb, IL, 1983), and German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (Urbana, IL, 1988). His present research explores the relationship between German immigrants and African Americans in the antebellum period.
Michael A. LaCombe is an Assistant Professor of History at Adelphi University in Garden City, Long Island, where he teaches courses on early America. He is currently revising his dissertation, "Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World, 1570–1650," for publication. He lives in New York City.
Barbara Lewis is the Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black History and Culture at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. As a theater historian, she has written about lynching and performance, minstrelsy, and the black arts movement. As a Francophone scholar, she cotranslated Faulkner, Mississippi (New York, 1999), by Edouard Glissant.
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.
Jeffery Strickland is Assistant Professor of History at Montclair State University. His research interests include nineteenth-century ethnic history, historical geographic information systems, and historical demography. Strickland's teaching interests include urban history and African American history. He is currently working on a book-length history of race and ethnicity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850–1880. His recent publications include articles in Citizenship Studies and Prospects.
Avelardo Valdez is a professor at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston and Director of the Office for Drug and Social Policy Research. He obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is the author of Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence: Beyond Risk (New York, 2007). His publications stem from research among high-risk "hidden populations," such as youth gang members, heroin drug users, and sex workers on the U.S.-Mexico border, and on drug markets.
Lissa Wadewitz is an Assistant Professor of History at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. She has authored several articles on various aspects of the western U.S.-Canada borderlands and is currently completing her book manuscript, "The Nature of Borders: Salmon and Boundaries in the Salish Sea."
Jace Weaver is Professor of Native American Studies and Director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of nine books. His most recent, with Craig S. Womack and Robert Warrior, is American Indian Literary Nationalism (Albuquerque, NM, 2006).

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