Contributors
- Contributors
Jerry Bergman is currently an adjunct associate professor at the University of Toledo Medical School. Since 1980 he has taught and done research at the University of Toledo in various areas. Bergman has also published widely in several academic areas, including medicine and history. One of his special interests is the influence of scientific ideas on government policy.
Jeffrey Bourdon recently earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Mississippi, completing a dissertation titled “Inventing Democracy: The Evolution of the Adams Party and the Jackson Party in Mississippi and Alabama.” He currently teaches American history classes at the University of Mississippi and is working on a project about the origins of presidential campaign electioneering speeches.
Peter S. Cajka is a doctoral student at Boston College. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Dayton in 2008 and a master’s degree at Marquette University in 2010. His research focuses on American culture in the twentieth century.
Barbara Floyd is director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections at the University of Toledo, where she is a professor of library administration.
José O. Solá is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Cleveland State University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean history, with a particular focus on colonial studies, immigration, race and history, and memory.
Angela M. Zombek is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Florida. Her dissertation is entitled “‘A Time to Try Men’s Souls’: The Civil War’s Impact on Imprisonment in Nineteenth-Century America.” [End Page 3]
