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Contributors
Joe R. Blakely has a degree in history from San Diego State University but began writing history only after his retirement. He is the author of The Bellfountain Giant Killers (Bear Creek Press), about a small-town basketball team that won the state championship in 1937, and is currently completing another manuscript.
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Richard A. Clucas is associate professor and chair of the Political Science Division at Portland State University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on modern Oregon politics entitled Oregon Politics and Government: Progressives versus Conservative Populists. He is also the general editor of a forthcoming reference series by ABC-CLIO on state governments in America.
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Ellen Eisenberg has taught at Willamette University since 1990 and was recently named the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History. She is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882–1920 (Syracuse University Press, 1995), and her articles on western Jewish communities have appeared in American Jewish History and Journal of American Ethnic History. She recently published an essay on the responses of Jewish communities in California to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in California Jews (Brandeis University Press, 2003).
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Michael McKenzie is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Keuka College in upstate New York. A native of the Yakima Valley in Washington state, he has written several articles on Northwest history, including a contribution to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2004) on the importance of Euro-American petroglyphs in the West. His current research focuses on the historical influence of Methodist missionaries in the Northwest, especially the life and work of James H. Wilbur.
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Daniel J. Meissner teaches East Asian Studies in the History Department at Marquette University. His research interests focus on the development of the Chinese flour-milling industry in response to the expansion of the transpacific trade in American flour.
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William R. Swagerty is director of the John Muir Center for Environmental Studies at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He taught at the University of Idaho from 1981 to 2001 and is interested in Indian-white relations in the nineteeth century. His current research focuses on Lewis and Clark and Indian trade blankets. |
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