Contributors
- Contributors
Michael A. Bernstein is professor of history and economics at Tulane University, where he also serves as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. A specialist on the economic and political history of the United States, Bernstein focuses his research on the connections between political and economic processes in modern industrial societies, as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole. A former Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, Bernstein has also held grants and awards from several organizations, including the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center.
Amy Corning is research investigator at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Her articles on collective memory include (with Howard Schuman) "The Roots of Collective Memory: Public Knowledge of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson," Memory Studies (2011), and "Emigration, Generation, and Collective Memories: The Presence of the Past for Emigrants from the Former Soviet Union," Social Psychology Quarterly (2010).
Andrew Jewett is associate professor of history and of Social Studies at Harvard University. The author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012), he has also written articles on the intersection of academic and political thought for Daedalus, Modern Intellectual History, and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. He is currently researching a new book on science and religion in the mid-twentieth century.
Christopher P. Loss is assistant professor of education at Vanderbilt University and author of Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (2012). His next book will explore academic expertise and its challengers in the post-1945 United States. In [End Page 617] 2012-13 he will be a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Paul H. Mattingly is emeritus professor of history at New York University, where he taught for nearly 40 years. His principal books—The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century (1975) and Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community (2001)—concern American social and cultural history with a special emphasis on educational and urban history. He created NYU's Program in Public History and directed it for 25 years, and for 12 years he edited the History of Education Quarterly. His current project is a historical study of American colleges and universities, tentatively titled American Academic Culture.
Margaret O'Mara is associate professor of history at the University of Washington. She is author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (2005) as well as numerous articles and book chapters about the political economy of high technology and the role of research universities in modern American society.
Ethan Schrum is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, where he is writing a book on American research universities after World War II. He published "Establishing a Democratic Religion: Metaphysics and Democracy in the Debate over the President's Commission on Higher Education" (2007) in the History of Education Quarterly and "Clark Kerr's Early Career, Social Science, and the American University" (2011) in Perspectives on the History of Higher Education.
Howard Schuman is emeritus professor of sociology and research scientist at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. He has written extensively on collective memory, including (with Amy Corning) "The Roots of Collective Memory: Public Knowledge of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson," Memory Studies (2011), and (with Barry Schwartz and Hannah d'Arcy) "Elite Revisionists and Popular Belief: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?," Public Opinion Quarterly (2005). [End Page 618]
Barry Schwartz is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Georgia. He has written many articles and books concerning collective memory, including Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000) and Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America (2008). [End Page 619]
