Contributors
- Contributors
Brian Balogh is a professor of history at the University of Virginia, directs the Miller Center of Public Affairs Dissertation Fellowship program and is co-host of the nationally syndicated radio program “Backstory with the American History Guys.”
Donna M. Binkiewicz is a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980 and “A Modernist Vision: The NEA’s Visual Arts Program, 1965–1975,” in The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State, ed. Casey N. Blake. She is currently working on a book about former California governor Jerry Brown.
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current project is on how home-care workers, mostly women of color, became the new face of the labor movement. Her book Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States won the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History.
Max M. Edling holds a research fellowship from the Swedish Research Council and is a member of the history department at Uppsala University. He is the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (2003).
Richard Harris is an urban historical geographer at McMaster University, Canada. He has written about segregation, housing, and suburban development in the United States, Canada, and Australia. His latest book is Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960 (Toronto, 2004). Supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is writing a book about the rise of the home-improvement industry from 1918 to 1960. He is also researching British colonial housing policy in India, East Africa, and the West Indies in the twentieth century.
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa. She is a lecturer in the College of Law, where she teaches courses in gender and legal history. In 2006 she served as president of the American Historical Association. During the academic year 2006–7, she was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Kerber served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1996–97 and as president of the American Studies Association in 1988.
Judith A. McDonald is Professor of Economics at Lehigh University. Her most recent work has been on pay equity in Canada and gender differences in starting salaries. Her previous research has examined U.S.-Canada trade relations, economic causes of tropical deforestation, and exchange-rate and capital-flow issues related to the Asian currency crisis of the late 1990s. Her research has been published in Canadian Public Policy, Ecological Economics, the Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Human Resources. [End Page 473]
Anthony Patrick O’Brien is Professor of Economics at Lehigh University. His research has dealt with such issues as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black–white income differences. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History.
Gretchen Ritter is Professor in the Department of Government and Director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in studies of American politics, constitutional development, and gender politics from a historical and theoretical perspective. Her books include Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Kenneth Weisbrode is Vincent Wright Fellow in History at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He specializes in twentieth-century U.S. diplomatic history. Weisbrode earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation entitled “The State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs and American Diplomacy, 1909–1989.” He has worked as a defense analyst in Washington, D...
