Mortal Remains: Death in Early America

List of Contributors

Contributors NANCY ISENBERG is Associate Professor of History and coholder of the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in Nineteenth-Century American History at the Universityof Tulsa. She is the author of Sexand Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998). ANDREW BURSTEIN is Professor of History and coholder of the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in Nineteenth-Century American History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The InnerJefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist (1995), Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-image (1999), and America's Jubilee (2001). DANIEL A. COHEN is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. He is the author of Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860 (1993) and editor of The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of CrossDressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic (1997). THOMAS G. CONNORS is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. MATTHEW DENNIS is Professor of History at the Universityof Oregon. He is the author of Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (1993) and Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: Identity , History, and the American Calendar (2002). DOUGLAS R. EGERTON is Professor of History at Le Moyne College. He is the author of Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (1993) and He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (1999). NICHOLAS MARSHALL is Assistant Professor of History at Marist College. He is working on a book based on his doctoral dissertation, "The Dissonant 248 Contributors Society: Gain and Suffering, and the Rise of an Improving Class in Rural New York, 1815-1860." MICHAEL MERANZE is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (1996) and editor of Benjamin Rush, Essays: Literary, Moral, and Philosophical (1988). ELIZABETH REIS is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and History at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997). She is also editor of Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America (1998) and American Sexual Histories (2001). JULIA STERN is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel (1997). LAURA M. STEVENS is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. She is completing her first book, "The PoorIndians ": Missionary Writings and Transatlantic British Sensibility, 1642-1776. ROBERT V. WELLS is the Chauncey Winters Professor of History and Social Science at Union College. He has published six books, most recently Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1900(2000). ...