Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Bionaz is associate professor of history at Chicago State University. His main research interests are working-class urban politics, urban working-class culture, and baseball and U.S. culture.
Terry S. Reynolds is professor of history in the Industrial History & Archaeology Program at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. He has authored or edited several books and numerous articles on various aspects of the history of technology and industry, including Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006 (Wayne State University Press, 2011), coauthored with Virginia P. Dawson.
Bradford W. Scharlott, associate professor of journalism at Northern Kentucky University, received his doctorate in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His recent publications include “Proto-Broadcasting in Cincinnati, 1847–1875: The Flow of Telegraph News to Merchants and the Press,” Ohio Valley History 7 (Spring 2007), with Mary Carmen Cupito; and “Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace: The Effect of the Telegraph, Telephone, and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants’ Exchange,” Ohio History 113 (Winter–Spring 2005).
James J. Gigantino II earned his PhD from the University of Georgia and is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas. He is currently revising his manuscript, “Freedom and Slavery in the Garden of America: African Americans and Abolition in New Jersey, 1775–1861.”
Shawn Selby is an adjunct history professor at Kent State University at Stark. He received his PhD in U.S. social and intellectual history from Ohio University; and his research interests center on questions of American identity, American exceptionalism, and Manifest Destiny. [End Page 3]
