Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors a l e id a a s s m a n n has been Professor o f English literature and Literary Theory at the University o f Konstanz since 1993. She has researched and published in the fields o f history o f media, literary anthro­ pology, and cultural memory. w . ja m e s b o o t h is Professor o f Political Science and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His m ost recent publica­ tions include Communities ofMemory: On Witness, Identity, andJustice (2006), “The Unforgotten. Memories o fJustice” in American Political ScienceReview (2001), and “Communities o f Memory: On Identity, Memory and Debt” in American Political ScienceReview (1999). WTLLiAM h tr st is Professor o f Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has edited three volum es and published numerous articles in topics as w ide rang­ ing as attention, amnesia, and social aspects o f memory. GERALD ECHTERHOFF is the author o f several articles on communicative and social influences on m emory and coedi­ tor (with M. Saar) o f Kontexte und Kulturen desErinnems (2002). c la u s l e g g e w ie is Director o f the Center for Media and Interactivity at Giessen University, Germany, where he teaches political science. His publications include Ein Ort, an den man geme geht. Das HolocaustMahnmal und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik nach 1989 [Aplace one wants to go: The Holocaust memorial and German politics o f history after 1989] (with Meyer, 2005). J e f f r e y k . o l ic k is Professor o f Sociology and History at the University o fVirginia. His books include States ofMemory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke 2003); In the House ofthe Hangman: TheAgonies ofGermanyDefeat, 1943-1949 (Chicago 2005); and ThePolitics ofRegret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007). r o s s p o o l e is the author o f Morality and Modernity (1991) and Nation and Identity (1999). He is currently working on a book entitled PastJustice. He was for m any years Head o f the Philosophy Department o f Macquarie University, and remains an Adjunct Professor there. He now teaches in the Departments o f Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. b a r r y s c h w a r t z , Professor Emeritus o f Sociology at the University o f Georgia, has addressed collective m emory issues in m any articles and books, includ­ ing George Washington: TheMaking ofan American Symbol (1987),Abraham Lincoln and the Forge ofNational Memory (2000), and Abraham Lincoln, Eroding Idol: History and Memory in the Post-Heroic Era (forthcoming, 2008). d a v id s u t t o n , Associate Professor o f Sociocultural Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, is interested in ques­ tions o f memory, food, gender, skill, and practical knowledge. His publica­ tions include Remembrance ofRepasts: An Anthropology ofFood and Memory (2001) and Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance ofthe Past in Everyday Life (1998). He is also coedi­ tor o f TheRestaurants Book Ethnographies of Where We Eat (2007). JOHN s u t t o n is Professor o f Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, w here he was Head o f the Philosophy Department until 2007. He is author o fPhilosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism (1998) and coeditor o f Memory Studies. His research addresses memory, dreaming, skilled m ovem ent, distributed cognition, and early m odem philosophy. ALAN t r a c h t e n b e r g is Neil Grey, Jr. Emeritus Professor o f English and Professor Emeritus o f American Studies, Yale University. His books include Reading American Photographs: Images as History (1989; w inner o f the Charles C. Eldredge Prize), Shades ofHiawatha: Staging Indians, MakingAmericans, 1890-1930 (2004; w inner o f the Francis Parkman Prize), and Lincoln’s Smile and OtherEnigmas (2007). HARALD w e l z e r is the director o f the Center for Interdisciplinary M emoiy Research at Essen and Research Professor o f Social Psychology at the University o f Witten/Herdecke in...