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Contributors to This Issue
Jane Eva Baxter is an assistant professor of anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago where she is also a faculty member in the American studies and Catholic studies programs. Her research includes archaeological projects at the Pullman Community in Chicago and on the island of San Salvador, Bahamas.
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Robert Chidester holds a Master of Applied Anthropology degree from the University of Maryland-College Park and is currently a student in the doctoral program in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan. His research interests are working-class and industrial archaeology in the state of Maryland, where he is a co-director of a community archaeology project in the Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden.
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Lake Douglas holds degrees in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and Harvard and a PhD in urban studies/urban history from the University of New Orleans. He has written widely for professional publications, academic journals, and the popular press. In 2005 he was professional-in-residence in the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University.
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Mark R. Finlay, professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University, is currently writing a book on Thomas Edison and the search for a rubber crop that would grow in the United States.
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Lance E. Metz is the historian for the National Canal Museum of Easton, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of SIA and both the Pennsylvania and American Canal societies. He has co-authored a number of books on topics of transportation and industrial history as well as numerous articles in regional historical journals. Among his other duties is his role as the editor of the Canal History and Technology Press.
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Jamel Ostwald is an assistant professor of early modern European history at Eastern Connecticut State University. Formerly a George Mason University postdoctoral fellow, his research focuses on early modern warfare, including a forthcoming book on the military reaction against Vaubanian siegecraft in the early-18th century.
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Vance Packard worked for the Pennsylvania Historical Museum for nearly 30 years as an archaeologist, curator, cultural resource manager, museum director, and administrator. He was one of the founders of SIA and remains active in the society's management. In retirement he currently serves on the boards of several museums and historical organizations.
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Efstathios I. Pappas is a doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University and is currently researching the history of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad section camp laborers for his dissertation.
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Michael A. (Smoke) Pfeiffer is an archaeologist with Ozark-St. Francis National Forests in Russellville, Arkansas. His long-term research interests are historical firearms and cartridges, tobacco-related history and artifacts, the American fur trade, fire lookout towers, and other natural resource extractive industries such as mining and logging.
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David A. Simmons is chief editor of Timeline, the Ohio Historical Society's popular history magazine. He formerly oversaw the National Register of Historic Places program for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.
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Justin M. Spivey is a senior engineer at Robert Silman Associates in New York, where he conducted a structural survey and analysis of the New York State Capitol at Albany. In his previous employment with the HABS/HAER program, he researched and wrote documentation of historic bridges in Chicago and Pennsylvania. The history of structural engineering—for both buildings and bridges—plays a large part in his professional and research interests.
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John Teichmoeller, a financial planner, is coordinator of the Rail-Marine Information Group and publisher of the journal Transfer that documents the history and technology of the transportation of railroad freight equipment over water. He has been an SIA member since the late 1970s and is a charter member of the Railroad Industry Special Interest Group, contributing regularly to its publication, Lineside, as well as to numerous railroad historical societies.
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Anthony S. Travis is deputy director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is senior researcher in the history of technology. His primary interest is the development of chemical technology in Europe and the United States. He has also studied the history of the Channel Tunnel project. His most recent book is Dyes Made in America, 1915–1980: The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid, and the Raritan River (2004).
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| Thad M. Van Bueren received a Master of Arts in Anthropology from San Francisco State University in 1983 and has been conducting research on historical sites and structures to comply with federal and state preservation laws since that time. He has worked in private practice, for the California Office of Historic Preservation, and most recently for the California Department of Transportation. His work on mining sites includes an investigation at the Canone Mine during advance studies for the Amador Bypass highway project, reported in this volume. |
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