Contributors
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Timothy K. August
Timothy K. August is assistant professor of comparative literature at Stony Brook University. He has published, or has work forthcoming, in MELUS, Television & New Media, Mizna, The Blackwell Postcolonial Encyclopedia, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and the Global Asian American Popular Cultures anthology. He is working on a book manuscript that examines the emergence and circulation of the refugee aesthetic.
Stephen Berry
Stephen Berry is Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, where he helps direct the Center for Virtual History and UGA’s DigiLab. He is the author or editor of five books on America in the nineteenth century, including House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). He also oversees the web project “CSI:Dixie,” which digitizes and datafies coroners’ reports from nineteenth-century South Carolina.
Jessie Kindig
Jessie Kindig is a visiting assistant professor of history at Indiana University and an assistant editor for the Journal of American History. Her current book project offers a cultural history of the Korean War’s racial and sexual violence, and argues that disavowing wartime violence was central to the projection of American empire after World War II. She is a founding member of the Histories of Violence collective.
Rachel McBride Lindsey
Rachel McBride Lindsey is a postdoctoral research associate in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a historian of American religion whose research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual and material cultures of religion, race, and nation. She is completing a book manuscript on religion and vernacular photography in nineteenth-century America, titled “A Communion of Shadows.” [End Page 219]
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
K. Tsianina Lomawaima is professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship straddles Indigenous studies, anthropology, education, ethnohistory, history, legal analysis, and political science. Focusing on the early twentieth century, she examines the “footprint” of federal Indian policy and practice in Indian country, including debates over the status of Native individuals and nations, and the ways US citizenship has been constructed to hierarchically privilege and dispossess different classes of subjects.
Alex Lubin
Alex Lubin is professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. From 2011 to 2014 he was director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut. His teaching and scholarship engage global histories of race and diaspora, black internationalism, and US–Middle East political and cultural encounters. His most recent book is Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Daniel Murphy
Daniel Murphy is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Notre Dame. His research concerns media theory and post-1945 American fiction, film, and television.
Robert K. Nelson
Robert K. Nelson is director of the Digital Scholarship Lab and affiliated faculty in the American Studies Program at the University of Richmond. He has authored, directed, or edited digital humanities projects such as “Mining the Dispatch,” an enhanced edition of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, and “Redlining Richmond.” He writes and teaches on antislavery and slavery in the nineteenth-century United States.
Scott Nesbit
Scott Nesbit is assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia, where he teaches digital humanities, history, and historic preservation. He has worked with collaborators to produce digital projects including Visualizing Emancipation, a look at when, where, and how slavery fell apart in the American [End Page 220] South, and Mapping Occupation, which shows for the first time where the federal government sent troops after the Civil War had come to a close.
Eithne Quinn
Eithne Quinn teaches American studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her scholarship focuses on race politics in the US cultural industries. She is the author of Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Columbia University Press, 2005) and is completing a book on race and American cinema since the 1960s...
