Matthew Bowman is Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University and the author of The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Janine Giordano Drake is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Great Falls. She is coeditor of The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class (reviewed in this issue) and is revising her manuscript, War for the Soul of the Christian Nation: Socialism and the American Churches, 1880–1920.
Robert Galler, Professor of History, teaches U.S. History, American Indian History, and History Education at St. Cloud State University. He has published other articles pertaining to the Northern Great Plains in Ethnohistory, The Western Historical Quarterly, and South Dakota History. He is currently completing a book on intercultural relations at a Catholic mission school on the Crow Creek Reservation.
J. Michael Hogan is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at Penn State University and Visiting Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Davidson College.
Jessica Lepler is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2013), which won a James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
April Merleaux is an Associate Professor of History at Florida International University and author of Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Emily Mieras is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Stetson University and Chair of the History Department. She has published on the gender and class dynamics that characterized college student voluntarism in the Progressive Era and is currently working on a project about the intersections between community branding, nostalgia, historical memory, and regional identity in the Southeastern United States.
Susan J. Pearson is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is currently writing a book about the spread of universal and compulsory birth registration in the United States.
Carin Peller-Semmens is a Historian of the Nineteenth-Century South with a regional focus on Northwest Louisiana. She is currently revising her book, Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820–1880, for publication with LSU Press.
Matthew Schneirov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914 (Columbia University Press, 1994); and (with J. Geczik) A Diagnosis for Our Times: Alternative Health from Lifeworld to Politics (SUNY Press, 2003). In addition to his interest in popular culture during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, he is interested in the study of health movements and more recently the study of the relationship between capitalism and social movements.
Scott M. Shubitz is a History Instructor at Stratford Academy, a college preparatory school in Macon, Georgia. He has a chapter forthcoming in What is Classical Liberal History? He is also revising his manuscript “Emancipating the American Spirit: The Battle Against Spiritual Slavery in Civil War Era America, 1845–1877,” which explores liberal thought and the Free Religion movement.
Brynnar Swenson is an Associate Professor of English at Butler University in Indianapolis, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He is the editor of Literature and the Encounter with Immanence (Brill, forthcoming 2017) and has published essays in Cultural Critique, New American Notes Online (NANO), Letteratura D'America, and The Baltic Journal of Law and Politics. His research focuses on the history of capitalism and the relationship between economic and aesthetic form.
Nicholas L. Syrett is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Northern Colorado. He is a coeditor, with Corinne T. Field, of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present (NYU Press, 2015) and author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (UNC Press, 2009) and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (UNC Press, 2011).
