Peter Boag is Professor of History and Columbia Chair at Washington State University. He is the author of Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (University of California Press, 2003) and Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011).
James J. Connolly is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University. Most recently, he is co-author (with Frank Felsenstein) of What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015) and co-editor of Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
Edward Frantz is Professor of History at the University of Indianapolis. He is the editor of A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865–1881 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) and author of The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy (University Press of Florida, 2011).
Adam J. Hodges earned a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston – Clear Lake. He is author of the book, World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He wrote the chapter on the Red Scare in A Companion to Woodrow Wilson in the Blackwell Companions to American History series (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and he has published peer-reviewed articles on urban class politics in the early 20th-century United States.
Andrew S. Hudson is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research on Pentecostalism in the Americas in the period of 1884 to 1955 brings together the theoretical study of religion within the broader social history of religions in America. Rooted in the analysis and production of visual and material culture, Andrew's work tracks the construction of race in America as an embodied practice of mythmaking in American religious history.
Jonathan S. Jones is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Binghamton University. His research interests include the history of drugs and addiction in the United States
Alan Lessoff is the University Professor of History at Illinois State University, and he edited the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from 2004 to 2014. His most recent book is Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History (University of Texas Press, 2015).
Julia L. Mickenberg is Professor of American Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies; the Center for Women and Gender Studies; and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2006).
J. M. Opal is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation (Oxford University Press, 2017) as well as Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) and has written recently for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Time.
John S. W. Park is Professor of Asian American Studies at University of California Santa, Barbara. He is the author of Elusive Citizenship (New York University Press, 2005), Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem (Temple University Press, 2013), and Immigration Law and Society (Polity, 2018).
Daniel Platt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo. He earned his doctorate in American Studies at Brown University in 2018, writing a dissertation on the legal and cultural history of personal credit in modern America.
Emily Pope-Obeda is a Lecturer in the History & Literature Program at Harvard University. She received her PhD in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2016. Her work centers on migration, race, ethnicity, and working-class history; and she is currently working on a book manuscript on the growth of the modern deportation state during the 1920s.
Richard Schneirov is Professor of History at Indiana State University. He is the author of Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction (University of Illinois Press, 2014) with John B. Jentz; and “Capitalism as a Social Movement: The Corporate and Neoliberal Reconstructions of the American Political Economy in the Twentieth Century,” Social Movement Studies 15:6 (2016): 561–76, with Matthew Schneirov.
Brian Stack is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington State University. His research focuses on the intersection of the histories of sexuality and animal welfare in the United States.
Laura Weinrib is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. A legal historian, her scholarship explores the intersection of constitutional law and labor law in the United States. She is the author of The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise (Harvard University Press, 2016), which traces the emergence during the first half of the twentieth century of a constitutional and court-centered concept of civil liberties as a defining feature of American democracy.
Eric S. Yellin is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's Washington (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).