Contributors
- Contributors
Michele Alacevich is director of global studies and assistant professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He specializes in the history of twentieth-century development institutions and ideas, and international history. He is the author of The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years (Stanford University Press, 2009), Political Economy: A Historical Introduction (Il Mulino, 2009), and a number of articles in Journal of Global History, History of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Rivista di Storia Economica, Humanity, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
Benjamin Bellman is a doctoral student in sociology at Brown University. He is interested in urban sociology and population change, with a particular focus on residential segregation and global urbanization. He has also specialized in GIS and spatial analysis.
Daniel G. Brown is professor and interim dean in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His work has aimed at understanding human-environment interactions through a focus on land-use and land-cover changes, modeling these changes, and spatial analysis and remote sensing methods for characterizing landscape patterns. He is a fellow of the AAAS.
Susan Boslego Carter is professor emerita of economics at the University of California, Riverside. Her scholarship has explored the economic history of women’s employment and education; labor markets, and immigration to the United States. She is a general editor of Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, the authorative five-volume quantitative history published in 2006, and also author or co-author of a number of the major sections of this work. Her current book in progress explores the economic, social, political, and cultural history of the Chinese restaurant in America.
Angela R. Cunningham is a PhD candidate in geography and a research assistant at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests lie in the long nineteenth century, spatial history, and multiscale analysis, with her dissertation focused on using big microdata, event history analysis, and geographic visualization to understand the connections made by American soldiers between home and the Western Front.
Daniel R. Curtis is assistant professor (Leiden) with a NWO project, “Why Do Some Epidemics Lead to Hatred?” His book Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements appeared in 2014 (Ashgate).
James Dykes is director of Computing and Research Services at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He worked as a statistician for 10 years at Dartmouth College and a technologist in storage technology and system reliability for 15 years at Seagate Technology. His work focuses on system reliability, small-area analysis, and spatial methods. [End Page 805]
Harvey J. Graff is Ohio eminent scholar in literacy studies and professor of English and history at The Ohio State University, where he directs the university-wide interdisciplinary LiteracyStudies@OSU initiative. His most recent book is Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century (2015) and has just completed Searching for Literacy: The Social and Cultural Origins of Literacy Studies. He was president of the Social Science History Association for its 25th anniversary in 2001. With Leslie Moch and Philip McMichael, he co-coedited Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Social Science History at 2000 (2005), papers from special sessions at that meeting.
Myron P. Gutmann is professor of history and director of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on the relationship between population and environment and on effective management and preservation of research data. He is a fellow of the AAAS.
Steve Hochstadt is now emeritus professor of history at Illinois College, where he taught 2006–16, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. He has spoken widely about the growing interest in China in Jewish history and especially the history of Jews in China. Hochstadt serves as treasurer of the Sino-Judaic Institute, a pioneer in the scholarship of and support for Chinese-Jewish relations for the past 30 years. He writes a weekly column for the Jacksonville (IL) Journal-Courier and has been a member of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission for eight years.
Anne Kelly Knowles teaches historical geography and digital history at the...
