Hilary N. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016).
Stephen R. Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Currently, he is writing a dissertation on race, conquest, and environment in the Black Hills region of the Northern Great Plains.
Mark Hendrickson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from WWI to the Great Depression (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His current project explores how American mining engineers and geologists working abroad between 1880 and 1930 helped shape the development of twentieth-century American capitalism, science, and foreign policy. He currently holds an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship.
Thomas Klug is Professor of History at Marygrove College (Detroit, Michigan). His research focuses on Detroit's anti-union employers (1900–1930), and also on the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws at the U.S.-Canada border before the Second World War.
Patrick Lacroix holds a Dissertation Year Fellowship at the University of New Hampshire. His work has notably appeared in Histoire Sociale/Social History, the Canadian Journal of History, the International History Review, and the Catholic Historical Review. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on religious factors in policy making during John F. Kennedy's presidency.
Stephen R. Leccese is a PhD Candidate at Fordham University, where he teaches classes related to American history. He studies interactions between business, economics, and society in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His dissertation examines how progressive economists advocated a consumer-based society as a method of social reform that would end class conflict.
Johanna Neuman is a historian, author, and award-winning journalist whose new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote, is due out in the fall of 2017 from New York University Press.
Kim E. Nielsen is Professor of History and Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. Her most recent book is A Disability History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2012).
Elisabeth Piller is a PhD Student at the Institute for Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is currently completing a dissertation on German public diplomacy and the United States in the interwar period.
Mark Wahlgren Summers holds the Thomas D. Clark Professorship at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of ten scholarly books, most recently The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (UNC Press, 2014).
Christine Talbot is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Gender Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the author of A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852–1890 (University of Illinois Press, 2013). Chris received her PhD in History, with an emphasis on U.S. Women's History, from the University of Michigan (U of M) in 2006, and her Certificate of Graduate Studies in Women's Studies from U of M in 2005. While her research focuses on gender in Mormon history, she has taught courses in Gender Studies; Feminist, queer, and Post-Colonial Theories; U.S. and U.S. Women's History; and the History of Sexuality.
Jennifer Thomson is an Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University. Her current book project, The Wild and the Toxic: Health and American Environmental Politics, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, is a history of the intersection of health discourse, environmentalism, and political culture in the postwar United States.