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  • Contributors

Joni Adamson

Joni Adamson is an associate professor of literature, writing, and film at Arizona State University, Polytechnic. From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the Federal Facilities Working Group of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), which visited communities throughout America and authored "Environmental Justice and Federal Facilities: Recommendations for Improving Stakeholder Relations between Federal Facilities and Environmental Justice Communities." She is the author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place (2001) and coeditor of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy (2002). Her essays have appeared in Globalization on the Line: Nation and Ethnicity in a Global Context, Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment, and Studies in American Indian Literatures. She offers courses on American literature, Native American literatures, Southwest American literature, and literature and the environment.

Laura E. Baker

Laura Baker is an assistant professor of history and secondary education at Fitchburg State College, where she is also director of a Teaching American History grant. Her research and teaching focus is on U.S. urban history, cultural history, and history education. She has published articles on media and contemporary culture and is currently working on a study of the relationship between civic and commercial conceptions of the public at the turn of the last century.

Victor Bascara

Victor Bascara is an associate professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (on leave 2007–08), and an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Model Minority Imperialism (2006).

Anna Brickhouse

Anna Brickhouse is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her book Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century [End Page 1303] Public Sphere (2004) received the Gustave Arlt Award for Best First Book in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools and an honorable mention for the Lora Romero First Book Award from the American Studies Association. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, American Literary History, and elsewhere. Her current book project is "The Story of Don Luis: History, Narrative, and Hemispheric American Studies."

Susan Cahn

Susan Cahn teaches women's history at the State University of New York at Buffalo and writes on issues of sexuality, adolescence, sports, and health. She recently published Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age (2007).

Nicole R. Fleetwood

Nicole R. Fleetwood is assistant professor of American studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She writes and teaches in the fields of media studies, technology studies, gender studies, and theories of race and ethnicity.

Emily Klein

Emily Klein is a PhD student in literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on performativity, activism, and gendered representations of twentieth-century American labor, citizenship, and domesticity.

Melani McAlister

Melani McAlister is associate professor of American studies and international affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 (2001). She is working on a study of Christian evangelicals, popular culture, and foreign relations, tentatively titled Our God in the World: The Global Visions of American Evangelicals.

Michelle H. Raheja

Michelle H. Raheja is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Native American Representations (forthcoming). [End Page 1304]

Leigh Raiford

Leigh Raiford is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in United States Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2006). Her work has also appeared in Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, edited by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, NKA: The Journal of Contemporary African Art, English Language Notes, and CodeZ (www.codeZon-line.com). Raiford is completing a manuscript examining photography and the African American freedom struggle across the twentieth century.

Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is professor of American studies and chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He is the author of several books...

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