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Martin Clagett is the Omohundro Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary. In 2007-2008 he was both the Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia while researching and writing Scientific Jefferson: Revealed. Dr. Clagett received a research grant from the Earhart Foundation and was named the first visiting scholar to the James Wilson Programme at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His book William Small—A Spark of Revolution: Thomas Jefferson, James Watt and the Scottish Enlightenment is presently being considered for publication.

Jennifer Graber is an assistant professor of religious studies at the College of Wooster. Her book, The Furnace of Affliction: Religion and Prisons in Antebellum America, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2011. Her next project explores religious encounters in the frontier American West during the period of Indian wars.

Andrew Heath is a lecturer in American history at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He received his BA from University College London in 2001 before taking his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He is currently working on a study of Philadelphia's 1854 city-county consolidation.

Alexia Hudson is reference and instruction librarian at Penn State Abington College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and African American Studies from Temple University and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Alexia has published in the library profession's leading journal, Library Journal, the Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History (2009), and the library services guide Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship (2010). Part of her research focuses on librarianship's role in preserving and leveraging ethnohistory across disciplines.

Daniel Johnson is a visiting assistant professor of history at the State University of New York-Binghamton. He received his PhD from Binghamton in August of 2011. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of colonial New York and Pennsylvania. [End Page 255]

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