Davarian L. Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007) and coeditor (with Minkah Makalani) of the essay collection Escape From New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (2013). Baldwin is currently at work on two new books: Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America and UniverCities: How Higher Education is Transforming Urban America.
Ian Binnington is an Associate Professor of History at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He teaches classes about the American nineteenth century, including the Civil War and the American South. He is the author of Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War (2013).
Cara Caddoo is an Assistant Professor of History and Cinema Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She writes about African American history, cinema, mass media, religion, and migration. She is the author of Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life (2014).
Cathleen D. Cahill is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of United States Indian Service, 1869 to 1933 (2011).
Mark C. Carnes is a Professor of History at Barnard College. His academic specialty is modern American history. His courses include The United States: 1940–1975; and several versions of the Reacting to the Past program, which he initiated in 1995. Professor Carnes served as general coeditor (with John Garraty) of the twenty-four-volume American National Biography (1999). He is also executive secretary of the Society of American Historians.
Boyd Cothran is an Assistant Professor of U.S. Indigenous and Cultural History in the Department of History at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence (2014).
Philip J. Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor in the Departments of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Playing Indian (1998) and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), among other writings.
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. He is the author of Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (2012) and coeditor of Beyond Two Worlds: Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America (2014).
Janine Giordano Drake is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Great Falls. Her manuscript in progress is Capturing the Labor Movement: The Working Class Religious Left and American Protestant Churches, 1880–1920. She is also coediting a collection entitled Between the Pew and Picket Line: Christianity and Class in Industrial America.
Jennifer Fronc is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her book on the National Board of Review's anti-censorship campaign will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2016.
David Henkin is a Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches primarily about the social and cultural history of the United States during the nineteenth century. He is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (1998), The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Antebellum America (2006), and, with Rebecca McLennan, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century (2014).
David Huyssen serves as a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University of York, and is the author of Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920 (2014). Before taking his post at York, he taught U.S. history at NYU, Wesleyan, the New School, and Yale.
Katherine Lennard is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation tracks the industrial production and national distribution of Ku Klux Klan regalia in the early twentieth century.
Malinda Maynor Lowery is an Associate Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She is the author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Tribe, and the Making of a Nation (2010).
Chantal Norrgard is an independent scholar based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her book Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood (2014) won the David Montgomery Award for best book in American labor and working-class history from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association in 2015.
Joshua Paddison is the author of American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California (2012). He received his BA from the University of Oregon, his MA from San Francisco State University, and his PhD from UCLA. He teaches classes on the United States and world history at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
Elaine Frantz Parsons is an Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. Her book, Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan in the Reconstruction-Era, will be published early next year. She is also the review editor of this journal.
Andrew Simpson is an Assistant Professor of History at Duquesne University. His scholarship examines the relationship between cities and academic medical centers in the late twentieth-century United States. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Urban History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Melvyn Stokes is a Reader in Film History at University College London. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Mount Holyoke College, and a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has organized two large conferences and coedited five books on the study of movie audiences.
John W. Troutman is an Associate Professor of U.S. Indigenous, Cultural, and Public History in the Department of History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (2009). His book on the history of the Hawaiian steel guitar will be published in the spring of 2016.
Amy M. Tyson is an Associate Professor of History at DePaul University. Her book The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines (2013) considers labor and performance at living history museums in the “new economy.” She teaches courses on public history, on community history methods, and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cultural history. She has a particular interest in how that history is interpreted and distilled for the larger public through museums, plays, art, music, and pageantry.
Laura M. Westhoff is an Associate Professor of History and Education at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She is the author A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform (2007), which examines social constructions of knowledge and the emerging tensions between democracy and expertise in modern America, and is currently working on a book on mid-twentieth-century democratic practices, entitled Educating for Activism.