Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Ray Mizumura-Pence’s research and teaching commitments include disability studies, social movements, and popular film and music. He lectures in the American Studies Department at The University of Kansas.
Sara M. Patterson is an Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College where she teaches courses in the history of Christianity and Religion in America. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Salvation Mountain, a work of outsider religious art in the California desert. Patterson received a Luce Fellowship from the Society for the ARts in Religious and Theological Studies for this project.
Sharita Jacobs Thompson is a former Assistant Professor of Civil War Era Studies and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. Currently, she is an independent scholar and consultant in the Washington, DC, area.
Beverly Tomek is a historian of race and civil rights in the U.S., an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Victoria, and an editor of H-AMSTDY. She is the author of Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania (NYU Press, 2011) and Pennsylvania Hall: A “Legal Lynching” in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell (Oxford, 2013).
Rachel Vaughn has a PhD in American Studies and is Visiting Assistant Professor in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of the book in progress, Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster.
Dominick A. Pisano is a Curator in the Aeronautics Department, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is currently at work on “To Slip the Surly Bonds of Earth: A Cultural History of Aviation in the United States, 1910–1939.” This book examines flight in America as a reflection of underlying cultural ideas, ideals, and ideologies in the fundamental period of its growth. [End Page 6]
