Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Randal Jelks is Associate Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids (University of Illinois Press, 2006). He is currently finishing his biography of Benjamin Mays.
Chad Lavin is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science and the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought at Virginia Tech. He is the author of The Politics of Responsibility (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and is currently at work on a book about the philosophy and politics of food.
Hollis Robbins is Professor of Humanities at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she is also an associate research scholar with the Center for Africana Studies. She is the editor of the recent Penguin Classics edition of Frances Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy. She is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (2006), as well as In Search of Hannah Crafts, Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (2003).
Paul E. Teed is Professor of History and honors program chair at Saginaw Valley State University. Teed is the author of a book, John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist (2006) and has published articles in scholarly journals including Civil War History and the Journal of the Early Republic. He is currently finishing a book on the nineteenth-century theologian and abolitionist Theodore Parker.
Patricia Vettel-Becker is Professor of Art History and chair of the art department at Montana State University Billings. She is the author of Shooting from the Hip: Photography, Masculinity and Postwar America (2005), and has published articles on Felix the Cat animated films, Bruce Davidson's gang photographs, the American surrealist painter Clarence Holbrook Carter, and World War II combat photography in such journals as American Art, Art Journal, Genders, and Men & Masculinities. She is currently working on a book addressing femininity and visual culture in the 1960s. [End Page 4]
