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  • About the Contributors

David S. Churchill is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. He is the director of the University of Manitoba Institute of the Humanities as well as co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism. Along with Tina M. Chen he is the editor of Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production (2007).

Erin Calhoun Davis is an assistant professor at Cornell College where she teaches in sociology and women’s studies. Her areas of specialization are identities, bodies, and feminist and queer theory. She is working on a manuscript about the cultural intelligibility of transgender lives and on an edited reader exploring body modification.

Karen C. Krahulik is associate dean of the college and director of the Independent Concentration Program at Brown University. She is the author of Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort (2005). Her new project explores the relationships between oral history and narrativity. In January 2009, she will step down after a three-year term as chair of the AHA’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay History.

Jessica Lawless is an artist and video maker living in Los Angeles. She teaches media studies, video art, and gender studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her work has been exhibited widely in film festivals, art galleries, and community spaces, and she recently co-curated the exhibition The Audacity of Desperation (desperationexhibition.blogspot.com/).

Susan McHugh is associate professor of English at the University of New England. In addition to her book Dog (2004), part of the Animal series from Reaktion Books, she has published several essays on scientific, literary, and visual media representations of animals. More information is available on her Web site (faculty.une.edu/cas/smchugh/).

Scott Lauria Morgensen is the author of Welcome Home: Settler Sexuality and the Politics of Indigeneity (forthcoming), a comparative cultural history of nonnative queer desires for indigenous roots and Native American Two-Spirit activism. He is assistant professor in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Macalester College. [End Page 189]

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