Alan Lessoff, journal editor, has been on the faculty at Illinois State University since 2000. He previously taught at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Dickinson College. He has been a Fulbright professor twice: in 1996-97 at the University of Kassel, Germany, and in 2006 at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. A specialist in U.S. and comparative urban history, he has a 1990 PhD from Johns Hopkins University, as well as BAs in History from Cambridge University and Columbia University. He is author of The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C. (1994) and co-author of Legacy: A History of the Art Museum of South Texas(1997). He is co-editor of Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America(2005). His articles have appeared in such journals as Planning Perspectives, the Journal of Urban History, American Nineteenth Century History, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Formerly newsletter editor for SHGAPE and a member of the Journal of Urban History editorial board, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Historical Journals and of the Urban History Association, along with the advisory panel for the H-DC network.

Scott Reynolds Nelson, associate editor, is Legum Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. He focuses on nineteenth-century American History, particularly labor history and business history. He has written Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence and Reconstruction (1999). In 2006 he wrote Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, which traces the real life, tragic death, and the enduring legend of the African-American folk hero. That book has won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in US social and cultural history, the Anisfield-Wolf prize for the best book on race, the Virginia Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the National Award for Arts Writing. With Carol Sheriff, he has written A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in the American Civil War which was published by Oxford University Press in February 2007. With Marc Aronson he has completed a children's book on historical research entitled Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. National Geographic Books published it in December, 2007.

Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Southern California. Her work on the La Follette family includes the prize-winning 2000 book, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, which gained national attention. In addition to her ongoing research into the La Follettes, she has published essays on American women in environmental history, stemming from her current book project, tentatively entitled "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women and Gender in Environmental History".

Charles W. Calhoun is professor of history at East Carolina University. His recent books include Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900 (2006), Benjamin Harrison (2005), and the second, revised edition of The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007). He is a past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Harold Platt is a professor of urban history at Loyola University of Chicago. His interests include technology and the environment. His works include "Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890- 1930," and "Shock City Revisited: Comparative Perspectives on the Environmental History of Manchester and Chicago." His latest book is entitled Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago(2005).

Judith Raftery is a professor of history at California State, Chico. Her interests include US state and nation building abroad and the role of public education in that process. Her works include "Textbook Wars: Governor James Francis Smith and the Protestant-Catholic Conflict in Public Education in the Philippines, 1904-1907" and Transporting the Common School: Education and Public Policy in the Philippines, 1898- 1915(forthcoming).

Julie Greene is a professor of history at the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on the history of labor, politics, and empire in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean. Her previous publications include Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881 to 1917. She is also co-editor, with Eric Arnesen and Bruce Laurie, of Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. She is currently working on a study of labor, race, and the state in the construction of the Panama Canal.

Nina Mjagkij is professor of history and director of African-American Studies at Ball State University. She is the author of Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946 and co-editor of Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and YWCA in the City. She has edited Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations and Portraits of African American Life Since 1865. She also serves as co-editor of Rowman & Littlefield's African American History Series.

Robyn Muncy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her scholarship focuses on women’s history and the history of reform in the twentieth-century United States. Her first book, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (Oxford, 1991), analyzed the continuities in women’s reform activism between the late nineteenth century and the New Deal. Her second book, Engendering America (McGraw-Hill, 1999), documented changes in ideals of manhood and womanhood between the late nineteenth century and the present. Her current project is a political biography of Josephine Roche, whose public life extended from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. This long public career illuminates continuities between progressivism in the 1910s and the Great Society in the 1960s. In addition, Muncy has written articles on the ways that gender shaped economic policy in the early twentieth century; women’s participation in the Progressive party of 1912; and the cooperative nursery school movement in the postwar period.

William H. Becker is professor of history at George Washington University. His teaching and research interests are in the history of business, business-government relations, the international economy, and business and public policy. Currently, he is working on a book-length study tentatively entitled, Shaping Corporate America: Big Business and the American Experience. In addition to examining the economic, legal, and organizational factors leading to the creation of large-scale enterprise in the United States, the book treats the social, political, and cultural implications of big business.

John Enyeart, since 2004 an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University, teaches courses on workers, politics, immigrants, and the West. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 2002 and then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. He is about to finish his first book, which deals with working-class political activism in the Rocky Mountain West, 1870-1924.

Katherine Osburn is an ethnohistorian who teaches Native American and environmental history at Tennessee Tech University. Her first research project examined how women on the Southern Ute reservation responded to the gendered policies of the Dawes Act, and her second analyzes the emergence of the Mississippi Choctaw as a viable political and ethnic group in the "biracial" South from removal to the civil rights era.

Lloyd Ambrosius, professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has published widely on the history of American foreign relations and the American presidency. His recent books include: Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations (2002); Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism during World War I(1991); and Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective(1987). In April 2006, he contributed the essay, "Woodrow Wilson, Alliances, and the League of Nations," to this journal. He is currently writing on German-American relations after World War I. Professor Ambrosius has served twice as a Fulbright professor in Germany, in addition to a year as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, at University College, Dublin, Ireland.

Pamela W. Laird, professor of history at the University of Colorado at Denver, is a specialist on American business history and business and commercial culture. Her books include PULL: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin (2006) and Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing (1998). She has served as book review editor and as a member of the board of editors for Technology and Culture and as co-editor of the University of Pennsylvania Press series, "American Business, Politics, and Society." Among her projects, she is currently editing a special issue of Business History on the theme, "Putting Social Capital to Work," and she is president of the Business History Conference."

Michael Perman is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he has taught for over 30 years. An expert in the history of the American South, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and slavery and race relations, he has written Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 (2001); Emancipation and Reconstruction (2nd ed., 2003); The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984); and Reunion without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868 (1973). He has also several collections of essays and documents on the Civil War era and has served on the board of editors for the Journal of Southern History. His current projects include a political history of the South tentatively entitled "In Pursuit of Unity," and the 2007 Fleming Lectures in Southern History at Louisiana State University, to be given on the theme, "The Southern Political Tradition."

Linda Przybyszewski, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, is a specialist in legal and judicial history interested in the understanding and use of state power and in how racial, moral, and religious reasoning have affected legal reasoning, both popular and moral. She is author of The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan (1999) and editor of Malvina Shankin Harlan, Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911 (2002). Her article, "The Secularization of the Law and the Persistence of Religious Faith: The Case of Justice David J. Brewer" (Journal of American History, 2004), is part of a larger project on the role of religious faith in legal thought. She is also writing a book on the Cincinnati Bible War. Professor Przybyszewski has held several national fellowships, the most recent from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Kathleen Dalton is visiting associate professor of history at Boston University, as well as Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History and Social Science at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she also co-directs the Brace Center for Gender Studies. She is author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Random House, 2002) and A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (Phillips Academy, 1986). She has spoken widely about Theodore Roosevelt, commented many times on television, and written for major newspapers about TR and other topics. She is currently editing the diaries of Caroline Drayton Phillips, Eleanor Roosevelt's lifelong friend, and working on her next book, The White Lilies and the Iron Boot, a story of four friends (including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt) and their attempts to shape U.S. foreign relations during a dangerous time.

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is Professor of History and Director of the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000. She is a specialist in rural and agricultural history, with a focus on family, women, childhood and community. She is the author, most recently, of (University Press of Kansas, 2005). She is also the author of Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas, and the editor of Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck. Her current project is a history of rural childhood in twentieth century America.

Born in Brisbane, Queensland and educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, Ian Tyrrell has worked at the University of New South Wales for three decades. His teaching interests include American history, environmental history, and comparative women's history. Among his books are (University of California Press, 1999); Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 1999); Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 (University of Chicago Press, 2005); and Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). From 1991 to 1996, he was editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies. A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal in 2003 and appointed a Scientia Professor in 2007.

Editorial Assistants at Illinois State University
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