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Andrew Morris is Assistant Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in January 2003. He is currently revising his dissertation, which focuses on voluntary sector-state relationships from the 1930s through the 1970s, in a manuscript titled “The Limits of Voluntarism: Private Social Service and the Expansion of the Welfare State.”

Travis Wagner is a visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. He received his Ph.D. from George Washington University and M.P.P. from the University of Maryland, College Park. His teaching and research interests include environmental policy and pollution control, risk assessment, and the history of waste management.

Irving Louis Horowitz is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is also chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction Publishers, located at Rutgers. He has written widely on the subject of the intersection of science and society in totalitarian contexts, including Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology.

Michael L. Andrews is a tutor at St. John’s College, Santa Fe campus.

Margie DeWeese-Boyd is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Gordon College, Massachusetts. Her recent work, “Community Political Economy and Community Empowerment: The Continuing Relevance of Community Organizing for Social Work in Rural Communities,” is forthcoming in Social Work in Rural Communities, 4th edition, ed. Leon Ginsberg (Alexandria, Va.: C.S.W.E.).

Nancy Beck Young is an Associate Professor of History at McKendree College and a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream and Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady. She is currently writing a book about the role of Congress during World War II.

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