Contributors
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KAREN J. BLAIR is an historian and professor, teaching American history and chairing the History Department at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She has written The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868–1914 and The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890–1930. Her two reference works, Northwest Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources on the History of Oregon and Washington Women, 1781–1970 and Women’s Voluntary Organizations in History, 1810–1960: A Guide to Sources, have both won the American Library Association awards for Best Bibliography in History for 1990 and 1998. She has also edited Women in Pacific Northwest History: Essays.
NAN ALAMILLA BOYD is currently an affiliated scholar at Stanford University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also has a tenure track position in women’s studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches U.S. women’s history, lesbian and gay studies, and feminist theory.
ANTONIA I. CASTAÑEDA, born in Texas and raised in the state of Washington, is an associate professor of history at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. Her article in this volume, a work in progress, is part of a larger set of essays on Tejana migrant workers in Washington state that includes “La Despedida” and “Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture.”
MARTA I. CRUZ-JANZEN received a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Denver in 1997. Her research interests include Latino ethnicity, identity, and racial formations.
JEANNE EDER, an Assiniboine Sioux, has a Ph.D. in history from Washington State University. She is the director of the Native Alaska Studies Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. In the past few years she has developed and performed a compelling portrait of Sacagawea around the Pacific Northwest. [End Page 184]
JANET FLOYD is senior lecturer in American Studies at King Alfred’s College, Winchester, United Kingdom. Her research interests are in domesticity and the American West. She has coedited Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior and has recently finished a study of the writing of housework in emigrant autobiography, The Subject of Emigration. At present she is working on the writing of cookery.
LINDA RUDIN FRIZZELL’S fabric constructions have appeared in exhibitions and galleries throughout western Washington as well as in Texas, California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. She was formally trained in fine arts and made a living as a graphic designer for many years. She is a member of Studio Art Quilts Associates and Surface Design Association, and is on the board of the Seattle Contemporary Quiltart Association. She works in her home studio outside of Olympia, Washington.
CAROL V. GRAY began her art education with private lessons at age thirteen and continued to take classes throughout her graduate work and career in educational psychology. She worked in several media while attending art classes at the Moore Art Institute in Philadelphia, Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, the Minneapolis School of Art & Design, and the University of Minnesota. In 1987 she turned her attention exclusively to watercolor and studied with nationally recognized artists. The medium of pencil was added to her repertoire in 1994. Gray has received awards at national and regional juried shows.
ALBERT L. HURTADO is the Paul H. and Doris Travis Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. Professor Hurtado’s first book, Indian Survival on the California Frontier, won the Organization of American Historians’ Ray Allen Billington Award. His most recent book is Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California.
LAURIE MERCIER is currently assistant professor of history at Washington State University, Vancouver, and associate director of the Center for Columbia River History. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Oregon. Her newest book is Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City. She has published several articles on labor, women’s, and oral history and is the former president of the Oral History Association. She is currently coediting an international anthology on gender and mining communities.
KATHERINE G. MORRISSEY, associate professor of history at the University...
