Contributors
- Contributors
Mimi Ajzenstadt is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include history of social control and social policy. She has authored articles on the establishment of operation of social policy directed toward women and minorities in Israel and Canada. Currently she is researching legal aid provided by the government and NGOs to members of excluded groups in Israeli society.
Suzanne Mettler is Alumni Associate Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Her research interests include American political development, public policy, and citizenship. She is the author of Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (Ithaca, 1998) and Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford, 2005). Her new work examines how changes in the welfare state over recent decades have affected citizens' attitudes about government and participation in politics.
W. J. Rorabaugh is Professor of History at the University of Washington, where he is also Managing Editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Author of The Alcoholic Republic (Oxford, 1979), he has most recently published Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (Cambridge, 2002). He is currently preparing a study of the 1960 election.
Bruce J. Schulman is Professor of History and American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of three books: From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (New York, 1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (Boston, 1994); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (New York, 2001). The New York Times named The Seventies one of its Notable Books of the Year for 2001. He is currently at work on a volume for the Oxford History of the United States covering the years 1896–1929.
