Contributors

CHRISTINA BURR is an associate professor of history at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada where she teaches courses in popular culture, women's history, and historiography. She is currently working on a project about the "modern girl" in silent film in the 1920s. She is also interested in notions of celebrity feminism, and is exploring its historical ties to the silent film industry in the 1920s.

JOHN KELLY DAMICO received his PhD in history from Mississippi State University, and is currently an associate professor at Perimeter College at Georgia State University. His doctoral dissertation, "From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Career of Patricia M. Derian," earned the prestigious Riley Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society for the most outstanding dissertation covering a Mississippi topic. His other publications include: "Confederate Soldiers Take Matters into their Own Hands: The End of the Civil War in North Louisiana," Louisiana History (Spring 1998); "Independent Treasury Act" and "Civil Rights Laws," The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia (Sage Publishing, 2012); and "New York v. Harris," "Seventh Amendment," and "Payton v. New York," Encyclopedia of American Law and Criminal Justice (Facts on File, 2012).

KAREN PATRICIA HEATH received her DPhil in modern history from the University of Oxford. She is a tutor in history and politics for the University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education, and history tutor at St. Clare's, Oxford. Her research interests include modern American conservatism, governmental growth, and the place of the arts in public life. She is currently preparing a book manuscript, provisionally entitled Conservatives and the Politics of Federal Arts Funding, From the Great Society to the Culture Wars.

MARY KLANN is a PhD candidate in US history at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, "Citizens with Reservations: Race, Wardship, and Native American Citizenship in the Mid-Twentieth Century American Welfare State," examines how Indians experienced the expansion of the American welfare state. Her research and teaching interests include women's and gender history, indigenous history, the history of the American welfare state, and discourses of race and citizenship.

THOMAS J. LAPPAS is a professor of history at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. He teaches the history of Native Americans, alcohol and temperance, the colonial and Revolutionary eras, and gender and sexuality in television and film.

PATRICK W. O'NEIL is an associate professor of history and the co-coordinator of Women's Studies at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He studies the cultural and political history of antebellum America, focusing particularly on how rituals, artifacts, and texts helped both to unite and to divide Americans politically. His current project is entitled Inventing the American Wedding, and investigates how disparate people responded to the new prominence of the bourgeois "white wedding." He has a second project in the works about music education in the Early American Republic. He teaches courses on American history, North Carolina history, the Civil War and slavery, and women's history, and he is organizing a local oral history project in Fayetteville. His teaching asks that students do research and think hard about it.

AVA PURKISS is an assistant professor in the Departments of Women's Studies and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her research interests concern the intersection of race, gender, and health in black women's history. Preliminarily titled Mind, Soul, Body, and Race: A History of Black Women's Exercise, her book-in-progress examines African American women's physical exercise in the early twentieth century, with particular attention to how exercise enabled black women to express both literal and figurative fitness for citizenship. She is also working on a second project about race and twentieth-century gynecological medicine. Purkiss received her PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Her dissertation is the 2017 recipient of the Organization of American Historians Lerner-Scott prize.

RACHEL REMMEL works at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Rochester where she supports faculty teaching and academic honesty. She is an art historian who focuses on nineteenth-century US architecture and museum history. Her research interests include building...