Contributors
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Brenda Barrett is the editor of the Living Landscape Observer, an online site that provides information and commentary on the emerging field of landscape scale conservation, historic preservation, and sustainable communities. She is the former Director of Recreation and Conservation at the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, directing financial and technical assistance for conservation, recreation, and heritage landscape partnerships. Prior to this position she served as the National Coordinator for Heritage Areas for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. She was formerly the Director of the Bureau for Historic Preservation at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. She writes and lectures in the area of collaborative conservation, management of large landscapes, and heritage development, and is an expert member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes.
April M. Beisaw is an assistant professor of anthropology at Vassar College in New York. Her research on the Susquehannock has been published in American Anthropologist and was awarded the Gordon R. Willey Prize by the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. Dr. Beisaw is continuing research she began as a Scholar-in-Residence with the Pennsylvania State Museum by reviewing field records of Susquehannock sites held in museums throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. She is particularly interested in the excavations of Moorehead’s 1916 Susquehanna River Expedition.
Brian Black is professor of history at Penn State Altoona, where he currently serves as head of Arts and Humanities. His research emphasis is on the landscape and environmental history of North America, particularly in relation to the application and use of energy and technology. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) and Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012). He is also the editor of a number of books, including Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds (University of Pittsburgh, 2012). He is a former editor of Pennsylvania History.
Silas Chamberlin is an environmental history doctoral candidate at Lehigh University, where he is writing a dissertation on the history of American [End Page 566] hiking culture and trail development. A revised version of his master’s thesis on Pennsylvania hiking clubs appeared in the spring 2010 issue of Pennsylvania History. Chamberlin is also director of stewardship and interpretation at the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, where—among other duties—he is responsible for the stewardship and promotion of the 165-mile D&L Trail.
Thomas A. Chambers is associate professor of history at Niagara University in western New York State. His current book, Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press in fall 2012. His earlier research focused on tourism and culture at early nineteenth-century resorts.
Stephen H. Cutcliffe is professor of history at Lehigh University where he also directs the Science, Technology and Society Program. His most recent publication is The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History (University of Virginia Press, 2010), which he coedited with Martin Reuss.
Allen Dieterich-Ward is an associate professor of history at Shippensburg University. His research interests include environmental, urban, economic, and political history, particularly since 1945. His article, “Beyond the Metropolis: Metropolitan Growth and Regional Transformation in Postwar America,” coauthored with Andrew Needham, appeared in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Urban History and received the Urban History Association’s prize for best scholarly article for that year. He is currently completing a book entitled From Mills to Malls: Politics, Economy and Environment in Metropolitan Pittsburgh under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Peggy Eppig is a doctoral student at Antioch University New England, Environmental Studies, Agroecology. She serves as an education director in secondary agriculture and natural resources for the Maryland Agriculture Education Foundation, based in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Her dissertation research involves complex socioecological problem analysis of pollination systems in agricultural landscapes. The focus of this research is the rapid decline of the yellow-banded bumble bee (B. terricola) in the Northeast, a primary pollinator of agricultural and natural systems. She is a life-long...
