Democratic Narrative, History, and Memory

Contributors

242 contributors Contributors Carole A. Barbato isprofessorof communicationstudiesatKentStateUniversityandauthorof abook,severalchapters,andjournalarticles,includingessaysreflectingherresearch on the Kent State tragedy. With Laura L. Davis, she cocreated Kent State’s May 4 walking tour and with Davis, Mark F. Seeman, and Jerry M. Lewis coauthored the nomination to placethesiteontheNationalRegisterof HistoricPlaces.SheandDavisledthedesignof the May 4 Visitors Center exhibit, for which they received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. Kenneth J. Bindas is professor and chair of the Department of History at Kent State University. His work in the area of memory and culture includes authoring Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South (2007) and Swing, That Modern Sound: The Cultural Context of Swing Music in America, 1935–1947 (2001) and producing/assistant directing the documentary Invisible Struggles: Stories of Northern Segregation (2007). Devan Bissonette earned his Ph.D. in history from Binghamton University, where his dissertation, “The Time of Our Life: Packaging the News for America’s Busy Readers, From Little Rock (1957) to the End of Life as We Knew It (1972),” was awarded a distinguished dissertation award in 2009. His research interests include media history and visual culture. He is currently a contributing faculty member at Walden University. Suzanne Clark is professor of English at the University of Oregon, where her teaching focuses on modernist culture and theory. In addition to publishing books and articles on the effects of gender on cultural history, she has written on the areas of literature and film, notably the books Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word (1991) and Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West (2000). She also has copresented with Daniel L. Miller on the subjects of film and argument and the filmmaking of Ernest Hemingway and Joris Ivens. Cathy J. Collins, Ph.D., is a nonprofit leader and social science scholar committed to bridging theory, research, and action to achieve social justice and transformative social change. Collins was the first executive director of the Racial and Cultural Diversity Com242 Contributors 243 mission for the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. She currently serves as executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, New York. Claire A. Culleton is professor of modern British and Irish literature at Kent State University. Her books focus on twentieth-century culture and include Names and Naming in Joyce (1994); Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914–1921 (2000); and Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism (2004). She is also coeditor of two collections, Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920–1950 (2008) and Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive (2009), and serves as general editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Irish Studies series. Laura L. Davis isprofessorof EnglishandfacultycoordinatorforMay 4initiativesatKent StateUniversity.Herpublishedworkincludesediting“Freyaof theSevenIsles”inthe’Twixt Land and Sea volume of the Joseph Conrad edition by Cambridge University Press (2008) and editing and coediting three volumes of essays. With Carole A. Barbato, she is cocreator of Kent State’s May 4 walking tour and, with Barbato, Mark F. Seeman, and Jerry M. Lewis, she coauthored the nomination to place the site on the National Register of Historic Places. She also led the design of the May 4 Visitors Center exhibit with Barbato, for which they received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. Thomas M. Grace,Ph.D.,istheauthorof KentState:DeathandDissentduringtheLongSixties ,forthcomingfromUniversityof MassachusettsPress,Amherst.Heteachesasanadjunct professorof historyatErieCommunityCollegeandisaconsultantforKentStateUniversity’s May 4 Visitor Center. He was among the casualties of National Guard gunfire in May 1970. Paul Haridakis isprofessoranddirectorof theSchoolof CommunicationStudiesatKent State University. He conducts research on freedom of speech, media use and effects, law, publicpolicy,politicalcommunication,andsportscommunication.Hisrecentresearchhas focused on restrictions on public discourse and access to information in the United States and on social media use in political contexts. Janet Leach is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. She is director of Kent State’s Media Law Center for Ethics and Access and an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute. She is past editor of the Akron Beacon JournalandheldreportingoreditingpositionsattheCincinnatiEnquirer,thePhoenixGazette, and the Arizona Republic. Jerry M. Lewis is professor emeritus of sociology at Kent State University. He has been an active researcher and teacher on issues related to the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, and is the cofounder of the annual Candlelight March and Vigil discussed in his essay in this volume. His published work on May 4 includes coediting, with...