Aaron Astor is an assistant professor of history at Maryville College. He is the author of Rebels on the Border; Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (2013).
Bob Batchelor is James Pedas Professor of Communication and executive director of the James Pedas Communication Center at Thiel College. He is the author or editor of twenty-seven books, including John Updike: A Critical Biography and Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel. He edits the “Contemporary American Literature” and “Great Authors/Great Works” book series for Rowman & Littlefield. Bob is the founding editor of The Popular Culture Studies Journal, published by the Midwest Popular Culture Association.
Rudi Batzell is a PhD candidate in history at Harvard University and a global history fellow at the International Institute of Social History, where he is working on a dissertation titled “The Global Reconstruction of Capitalism: Class, Corporations, and the Rise of Welfare States, 1870–1930.” His research examines inequality, class formation, and the politics of state formation in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as in Germany and Japan. He recently published an article in Past & Present titled “Free Labour, Capitalism, and the Anti-Slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s.”
E. Tsekani Browne is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Government at Bowie State University. Tsekani Browne completed his BA, M., and PhD from UCLA, completing a dissertation on the African American intellectual Anna Julia Cooper. He has taught at Bowie State, Duquesne University, Scripps College, California University of Pennsylvania, and The Neighborhood Academy. His specific teaching and research interests include black intellectual history, slavery and emancipation, gender and black nationalist thought, race relations, racial and gender violence, and black popular culture.
Angus Burgin is assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (2012).
Philip J. Deloria (PhD American studies, Yale University, 1994) is Carroll Smith-Rosenberg collegiate professor in the departments of history and American culture and currently serves as the associate dean for undergraduate education at the University of Michigan. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Playing Indian (1998) and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and is coeditor of two other volumes. Deloria is the former president of the American Studies Association; a trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian; and the author of numerous essays, articles, and reviews dealing with American cultural history and American Indian history.
Gregory P. Downs is an associate professor of history at City College and Graduate Center, CUNY. His book After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South was published in 2011 by University of North Carolina Press.
Dawn Rae Flood is an associate professor of history at Campion College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts (2012) and is currently researching gender and radical civil rights organizing in the 1960s and 1970s. Her article, “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits Saskatchewan,” appears in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism (8:2, 2014).
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University and the author of numerous works on American history, including Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, and The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, both of which won the Bancroft Prize. His most recent book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
Brian H. Greenwald joined the Gallaudet University history department in 1999 as one of the first two president's fellows. Currently, Dr. Greenwald is professor of history, conducting research in Deaf History. He is coeditor of A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History and has published chapters in Deaf History Reader and Genetics, Disability, and Deafness. He is currently working on a book about the role of Alexander Graham Bell and the American eugenics movement.
Thavolia Glymph is associate professor of history in the department of history and the department of African & African American Studies at Duke University and holds faculty affiliate appointments in the Duke Population Research Institute and the Program in Women's Studies at Duke. She is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and served as coeditor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. She is currently completing two book manuscripts: Women at War: A Story of Women and the Civil War and Black Women and Children Refugees in the Civil War.
Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols professor in United States history at the University of Pennsylvania. Hahn's books include The Roots of Southern Populism (1983, Allan Nevins Prize and Frederick Jackson Turner Award), The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation (1985), A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Merle Curti Prize), and, most recently, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009). He is also coeditor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation (2009). Currently, he is completing a book for the Penguin/Viking History of the United States series entitled, A Nation without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830–1900, as well as a textbook for Bedford-St. Martin's Press, Colonies, Nations, Empires: A History of the United States and the People Who Made It.
Michael Hanagan is an adjunct associate professor at Vassar College. He is the author of The Logic of Solidarity: Artisans and Industrial Workers in Three French Towns (1979) and Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France (1989).
Alan Lessoff, professor of history at Illinois State University, edited this journal from 2004 to 2014. Recent publications include Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History (2015); and with James J. Connolly, “From Political Insult to Political Theory: The Boss, the Machine, and the Pluralist City,” Journal of Policy History 25 (2013): 139–172.
Seth MacLowry teaches English at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois. He has been teaching high school English for 22 years and presently teaches advanced placement literature and composition, American studies, and creative writing. He received his BA from Yale University and an MAT in teaching English from the University of Chicago.
Kate Masur is associate professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, DC (2010), and several articles on emancipation, politics, and culture in the Civil War era. She is also an editor of one of the volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation and currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era. She and Gregory P. Downs are coeditors of The World the Civil War Made, a volume of essays on the post-Civil War period to be published by UNC Press in fall 2015. She is now working on slavery, race, and due process rights before and during the Civil War.
Walter Nugent, professor emeritus of history, University of Notre Dame, is the author of The Tolerant Populists (1963; 2nd edition 2013), Money and American Society 1865–1880 (1968), and Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (2010), and other books.
Nancy J. Rosenbloom is professor of history at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. She has published on film and censorship in the Progressive Era, most recently “Toward a Middle-Class Cinema: Thomas Ince and the Social Problem Film, 1914–1920” in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Oct. 2009). She is currently working on a new project exploring Rochester, New York, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
David R. Shumway is professor of English, and literary and cultural studies, and the founding director of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014). He has also written Michel Foucault (1989), Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (1994), Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003), and John Sayles (2012). He is currently working on a book on realism across media in twentieth-century America.
Luke Staszak teaches social studies at George Westinghouse College Prep, a public high school in Chicago, Illinois. He served as the editorial assistant for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era during 2013–2014. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and his MAT in the teaching of history in 2014 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He presently teaches human geography and coaches the policy debate team.
Wyatt Wells is a professor of history at Auburn University Montgomery and author of Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970–1978 (1994); Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World (2002); and American Capitalism, 1945–2000 (2003).
Heather Andrea Williams is presidential professor and professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously taught at UNC Chapel Hill. She is the author of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (2005), Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (2012), and A Very Short Introduction to American Slavery (2014).
John Vickrey Van Cleve taught at Gallaudet University for thirty-one years and served in various administrative positions. He is the author, with Barry A. Crouch, of A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America; and the editor of several books, including Genetics, Disability, and Deafness; Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship; The Deaf History Reader; and, with Brian H. Greenwald, A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. Retired and living in Miami Beach, he is professor emeritus of history at Gallaudet University.
