Contributors
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Samantha Barbas
Samantha Barbas is assistant professor of history at Chapman University and the author of Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity (2002), and a forthcoming book, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons.
Joanna Brooks
Joanna Brooks is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures (2003) and is presently preparing the collected writings of eighteenth-century American Indian author Samson Occom for publication.
Harvey G. Cohen
Harvey G. Cohen received his doctorate in American history in 2002 at the University of Maryland. His dissertation won the Pauline Maier Best Dissertation in American History Prize from the Historical Society, and will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. The provisional title is Duke Ellington's America. He recently contributed fifteen essays on significant songs in American history, with an accompanying compact disc, for the textbook Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People.
Jane Desmond
Jane Desmond is co-founder and co-director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies; associate professor of American studies; and associate Dean of International Programs at the University of Iowa, where she also teaches courses in the museum studies program. A specialist in visual and performance studies, she is the author and editor of three books, the most recent of which is Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexuality on and off the Stage (2002). Her current book project is titled Displaying Death/Animating Life: Fictions of Liveness from Taxidermy to Animatronics.
Stephanie Foote
Stephanie Foote is at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [End Page 1175]
Lawrence B. Glickman
Lawrence B. Glickman received his AB degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. An associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, he is the author of A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (1997) and editor of Consumer Society in American History: A Reader (1999). He is currently writing a history of American consumer activism from the Boston Tea Party to the present.
Elizabeth Hutchinson
Elizabeth Hutchinson is an assistant professor of American art history at Barnard College/Columbia University who writes about the visual culture of the American west.
David Kaiser
David Kaiser is the Leo Marx Associate Professor of the History of Science in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. His historical research focuses on transformations in American physics during and after World War II, looking especially at how the postwar generation of graduate students was trained. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (forthcoming, 2005), and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (forthcoming, 2005).
Tracy Neal Leavelle
Tracy Neal Leavelle is an assistant professor at Creighton University, where he teaches in the Department of History and the Native American Studies Program. He is currently completing a book manuscript with the working title Encounters of Spirit: Religion, Culture, and Community in French and Indian North America. The book examines the nature of spiritual encounters between Catholic missionaries and American Indians in colonial North America, exploring such issues as the translation and reception of religious concepts, the impact of gender and generational differences on Native responses to Christianity, and the role of religion in shaping colonial geographies.
Jason Loviglio
Jason Loviglio is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is editor, with Michele Hilmes, of Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (2002) and The Intimate Public: [End Page 1176] Network Radio and Mass-Mediated Democracy, 1932-1947 (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press).
Michael Lundblad
Michael Lundblad is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English and a Fellow of Brown College at the University of Virginia. His articles and reviews have appeared in American Literature, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Film & History, West Africa Review, and Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West (2003...
