Notes on Contributors

Canadian Review of American Studies/ Relluecanadienne d'etudes americaines Notes on Contributors 201 Donald E. Abelson is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches courses on American domestic and foreign policy. l-le is currently examining the involvement of think tanks in presidential elections. Donald G. Alcock received his doctorate at the University of Southern California in 1985. His dissertation is entitled "A Study in Continuity: M~1ry County, Tennessee, 1850-1870." I-le has taught as a sessional lecturer at McGill University, Huron College, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Calgary. Jane Bennett teaches political theory at Goucher College, where she is an associate professor of politics. She is the author of Thoreau's Nature: Et.hies, Politics, 1md the Wild (Sage Publications, 1994); U11t.hinki11g F,1ith and Enlightenment (New York University Press, 1987); and editor, with William Chaloupka, of In the Nature o{ Things: Language, Politics, ,md the En1 ,iro11ment(University of Minnesota Press, 1993). She is currently working on a study of the aesthetic dimensions of ethical judgment. Fred Matthews, who taught history and humanities at York University from 1967-91, is the author of Quest /or,m American Sociology (1977), Northem Cali/omia Ri1ilro,ui, 2 vols. (1983, 1984); ,rnd many essays in cultural history. Jerome Nadelhaft, a professor of history at the University of Maine, is the author of The Disorders al War: The Reuolution in South C11roli11a (1982) and numerous articles. lfo is the general editor of Gt1rlm1dStudies hr A111erict111 Popu/,,r History 1111d Culture, and of a new series, Cultural Histories olAmerica and Its People(s). He is completing a book tentatively titled Crimes o{ the Hearth: Wile Abuse in Nineteenth-Century Americ11. 202 Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revue amadienne d'nudes ame-ricaines GilTroyis an assistant professor of history at McGill University, specializing in American political history. His first book, See How They Ran: The Changing Role o/ the Preside11tialCandidate, was published in 1991. He is currently working on a book about presidents and their wives in the postwar United States. ...