Contributors
- Contributors
Jeffrey Normand Bourdon is currently an adjunct professor of American history at the University of Mississippi and the University of Memphis. He received his PhD at the University of Mississippi in 2010 and is currently working on a piece about the front-porch campaign of Benjamin Harrison in 1888.
Donna M. DeBlasio is professor of history and director of the Center for Applied History at Youngstown State University. She is coauthor of Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History (2009).
John Craig Hammond is assistant professor of history at Penn State New Kensington. He is the author of Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (2007), and coeditor (with Matthew Mason) of Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (2011).
Martha I. Pallante is professor of history and department chair at Youngstown State University. She is the author of numerous articles, including “To Work and Live: Brickyard Laborers, Immigration, and Assimilation in an Ohio Town, 1890–1925,” which appeared in the Northeast Ohio Journal of History (2003).
Hans C. Rasmussen is coordinator of Special Collections Technical Services at the Louisiana State University Libraries. He received an MA in history from LSU in 1996 and an MLIS degree specializing in archives and records enterprise from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.
David Scott has a PhD in political science from Northwestern University, a BA in history from Denison University, and an MA in history from the University of Wisconsin. He taught at Northern Illinois University and was senior policy and management analyst for the Illinois State Board of Education. He has served as president of the Sangamon County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society.
Tyran Kai Steward has a PhD in history from the Ohio State University. He specializes in African American, modern U.S., and women’s history, and his research primarily focuses on twentieth-century race relations outside the American South. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan. [End Page 3]
