Contributors
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Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now an assistant professor of borderlands history at the University of Iowa. He is finishing a book that examines citizenship, ethnicity, and gender relations in the Lower Rio Grande region, tentatively titled "Rio Grande Crossings: Identity and Nation in the Mexico Texas Borderlands" (Duke University Press, forthcoming). His published essays have focused on political identity in Mexico's northern borderlands, teaching the American West in a global context, race and immigration in California, and Latinos in the American West. His research interests include immigration, memory, and racialization. He can be contacted at omar-valerio@uiowa.edu.
Karen Leroux is assistant professor of history at Drake University, where she teaches modern world history as well as courses in U.S. social, political, and gender history. She received her PhD in history from Northwestern University. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Veterans of the Schools: Women's Work in U.S. Public Education, 1865-1902," for publication and working on a related project about late-nineteenth-century U.S. teachers who migrated to Argentina. She can be reached at karen.leroux@drake.edu.
Lisa G. Materson is assistant professor of history at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of the forthcoming book, For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Myrna Santiago teaches Latin American and world history at Saint Mary's College of California. She is also the director of the Women's Studies Program. She did her undergraduate work in Latin American Studies at Princeton University, and her PhD in history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was also a postdoctoral Ford Foundation Fellow in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Program in the College of Natural Resources. She spent time in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar and several years doing human rights work in Nicaragua in the 1980s. She can be reached at msantiag@stmarys-ca.edu.
Amy M. Hay received her PhD from Michigan State University and is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas–Pan American. Her [End Page 192] research interests examine the intersections of gender, medicine and the environment, and public policy. She is currently revising her manuscript, "Recipe for Disaster: Chemical Wastes, Community Activism, and Public Health at Love Canal, 1945-2000," which won the 2006 Dixon Ryan Fox manuscript prize from the New York Historical Association, for publication. Her new research project examines the development, use, and protests against Agent Orange, the compound used to defoliate jungle growth in the Vietnam War.
Claire Walker is a lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where she teaches medieval and early modern history. She has written extensively about religious women, in particular post-Reformation English nuns. Her book Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2003. She recently published an edition of The Admirable Life of the Holy Virgin S. Catharine of Bologna (Caterina Vigri) in Ashgate's Early Modern Englishwoman series (2006).
Susan L. Smith is professor of history in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is the author of Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890–1950 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), and Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950 (University of Illinois Press, 2005).
Houri Berberian is professor in the Department of History and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of several published and forthcoming articles, including the prize-winning "Armenian Women in Turn-of-the-Century Iran: Education and Activism," in Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Mazda, 2000). Her book, Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911: "The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland," was published by Westview in 2001.
María Teresa Fernández Aceves is professor of history at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en...
