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Radical History Review 80 (2001) 160-161



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Adina Back is an assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she directs a minor in archival studies and community documentation.

Daniel E. Bender is a doctoral candidate in New York University's Department of History, where he is completing his dissertation, titled "Organizing Work: The Sweatshop and Languages of Labor and Organizing, 1880-1930." He has published in International Labor, Working-Class History, and Radical History Review.

Pennee Bender is associate director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. She is also completing a dissertation on government use of film in relation to Latin America, 1930-50.

Claudia Marie Calhoon currently serves as program officer for the Medicine as a Profession Program at the Open Society Institute in New York City. In 2000, she completed her M.P.H. in the Program in the History of Medicine and Public Health at Columbia University. She was the recipient of the 1999 Goldman Student Merit Award from the Public Health Association of New York City. Her current research interests include the social history of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases.

Ana MarĂ­a Kapelusz-Poppi is a doctoral candidate in the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is writing a dissertation on the role played by provincial intellectuals in the construction of a public health system in Mexico.

R. J. Lambrose is collaborating with Ken Burns on A Place Called Midland--a thirty-six part documentary series on George W. Bush's hometown.

Aran S. MacKinnon has taught in South Africa and the United States and currently teaches African and South African History at the University of West Georgia. He has published articles on the cattle economy and malaria in Zululand and is currently working on a forthcoming textbook on South African history. His future research interests include an examination of Africans and rural retirement in South Africa.

Donald Reid is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization and Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations, he is currently writing a book on the French intellectual and political activist Daniel Gurin.

Naomi Rogers is a lecturer in the women's and gender studies program at Yale University and the section for the history of medicine at Yale's School of Medicine. Author of Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR (1992) and An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia (1998), she is now working simultaneously on a book on controversial polio nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and American medicine in the 1940s, and a book on student radical and American medicine in the 1960s.

Jean Calterone Williams is assistant professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She teaches social welfare policy, urban politics, and the politics of gender, race, and class. She is completing a book-length manuscript titled "Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry: Culture, Identity, and Social Control," examining the impact of homeless and battered women's shelter policies on low-income women. She has published articles on homeless women's resistance.

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