Contributors
- Contributors
Ann Clymer Bigelow is a retired editor of the Current Digest of the Soviet Press. She has written articles for Ohio Valley History about Ohio’s antebellum black barbers, Cincinnati’s first insane asylum, and Dr. William Awl, founder of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum.
Jeffrey Bourdon teaches history, writing, and academic success at the University of Mississippi, where he finished his PhD in 2010. He is currently working on a book manuscript concerning the origins and evolution of front-porch campaigning for the presidency.
Robert Gioielli is an assistant professor of history at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. A former editor of Ohio Valley History, his research focuses on the intersections of social, urban, and environmental history both in the United States and around the world. He is the author of Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014).
David A. Nichols is an associate professor of history at Indiana State University. His most recent book is Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
Matthew Smith earned his doctorate at Miami University in 2011. A former Filson Historical Society Fellow, he has written articles most recently on the religious and political landscape of early Kentucky. His current book project explores shifting sectarian dynamics in antebellum Cincinnati. He teaches history at Miami University Hamilton. [End Page 2]
