Kevin Adams specializes in the study of War and Society in the United States at Kent State University. His current research is centered around the relationship between the U.S. Army and the development of the American state in the Gilded Age. He is the author of Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870–1890 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).

Rudi Batzell is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University where he is currently working on a dissertation titled “The Global Reconstruction of Capitalism: Class, Corporations and the Rise of Welfare States, 1870–1930.” His interests are in the social history of inequalities, extending across the intersections of racism, gender and patriarchy, and class formation. His work aims to bring global and comparative perspectives to the history of the United States.

Eli Cook is an Assistant Professor of American History at Haifa University in Israel. He is currently finishing up a book manuscript on the history of social quantification for Harvard University Press titled The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Values of American Capitalism. He has contributed articles and reviews to Jacobin, Raritan Quarterly Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Rosanne Currarino is Associate Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the author of The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (University of Illinois Press, 2011). She has also written articles on economics and the origins of labor history, the anti-Chinese movement, pure and simple unionism, and the history of cultural economy. She is now working on a project that rethinks how we describe the incorporation of America, using California's early orange growers as a starting point.

Lawrence B. Glickman is the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several volumes, including A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (Cornell University Press, 1997) and Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Paul A. Kramer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). He is currently at work on a book about the geopolitics of U.S. immigration policy across the twentieth century.

Noam Maggor is a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is a historian of capitalism in the nineteenth century and the author of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in the fall of 2016.

John Nerone is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He writes about the history of the media and normative press theory. His most recent book is The Media and Public Life: A History (Polity Press, 2015).

Jessica Pliley is an Assistant Professor of Women's History at Texas State University and holds a PhD from the Ohio State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Hollis Robbins is Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Chair of the Humanities Department at the Peabody Institute, where she teaches courses on African American poetry and film. Her most recent article is “Django Unchained: Repurposing Film Music,” Safundi 16:3 (July 2015).

Ariel Ron is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and Assistant Professor of History at Southern Methodist University (starting fall 2016). His research focuses on the intersection of politics and economic development in the nineteenth-century United States. His article “Summoning the State: Northern Farmers and the Transformation of American Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” is forthcoming in The Journal of American History. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Farmers and State Development in the Slaveholders' Republic.

Thomas Rzeznik is an Associate Professor of History at Seton Hall University and coeditor of the quarterly journal American Catholic Studies. He is author of Church and Estate: Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia (Penn State Press, 2013).

David Roth Singerman received his PhD in 2014 from MIT's Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. His dissertation, “Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860–1930,” was awarded the Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation from the Business History Conference as well as the Coleman Prize for Best Dissertation from the Association of Business Historians in the United Kingdom. In 2014–15 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University's Center for Historical Analysis.