Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Lori L. Brooks is Assistant Professor in the Departments of American Culture and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has recently completed a book-length manuscript on African American songwriters and vaudevillians exploring racial formation and black masculinity during the Ragtime Era in New York City (forthcoming, NYU Press). She has published work on white female comedic singers at the turn of the twentieth century and James Weldon Johnson’s work as a lyricist in Tin Pan Alley and is currently writing a history of black comediennes.
Jane Desmond is Professor of Anthropology and Gender/Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, where she directs the International Forum for U.S. Studies: A Center for the Transnational Study of the United States, co-founded with Virginia Dominguez. She is the immediate Past President of the International American Studies Association (2007-2011), North American Editor of the journal Comparative American Studies, and Editor of the new University of Chicago Press series in humananimal studies: “Animal Lives.” Her books include Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and several edited volumes in performance studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, and has served on the faculties of Cornell, Duke, and the University of Iowa.
Michael J. Douma is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at James Madison University. A graduate of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and a former Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands, he wrote a dissertation on Dutch American immigrant identity. He has published peer-reviewed articles for journals in the Netherlands, England, South Africa, and the United States. His recent work, concerning emancipation in Dutch Suriname, appeared last summer in the New York Times, among other places. [End Page 4]
Wendy J. Katz is Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Regionalism & Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati (Ohio State University Press, 2002), and with Timothy Mahoney, editor of Regionalism and the Humanities (University of Nebraska Press, 2009). She is currently researching a book on art criticism in the nineteenth-century penny press.
Jake Mattox is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, South Bend, where he specializes in antebellum U.S. culture, empire, and representations of the U.S. west. His essays, reviews, and conference presentations have focused on topics such as the hemispheric imagination of Martin Delany, the global visions of George Schuyler, the literature of expansionism, and classroom pedagogy.
Jay Mechling is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Sarah Schrank is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and Naked: Natural Living and the American Cult of the Body (Nature and Culture in America Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
Michael C. Steiner is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at California State, Fullerton where he has served as department chair, director of the MA program, and continues to teach courses on environmental history, folk culture, regionalism, and the West. He won the American Studies Association’s Mary C. Turpie Award in 2006 and has twice held a Distinguished Fulbright chair. He has published prize-winning essays on Frederick Jackson Turner’s sectional thesis and Walt Disney’s Frontierland. His latest book is Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). [End Page 255]
