Contributors
- Contributors
Rosalind J. Beiler is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida whose research focuses on migration in the early modern Atlantic world. Her publications include Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750 (2008) and articles about German-speaking immigrants to the British colonies. She is currently studying the communication networks of early modern religious dissenters and the ways they became conduits for information about migration.
Jonathan A. Burns is an archaeologist, professor of anthropology, and director of the Cultural Resource Institute at Juniata College. He specializes in the study of North American prehistory and colonial fortifi cations. His current fi eldwork in Pennsylvania includes Fort Shirley, Fort Ligonier, Fort Lyttelton, and McCord's Fort—all sites dating to the French and Indian War.
Christopher Capozzola is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently writing "Brothers of the Pacifi c," a history of Filipinos in the US armed forces from the 1890s to the present.
Dominique Daniel is associate professor, humanities librarian, and coordinator of archives and special collections at Oakland University. Her articles on twentieth-century American immigration and ethnicity and on the history of ethnic archives in the United States and Canada have been published in both history and information science journals. She has recently edited a book on theoretical and practical issues underlying the archiving of ethnicity in North America.
Andrew Dudash is head of reference at the Beeghly Library of Juniata College.
Katharina Hering holds a PhD in history from George Mason University, a MLIS specializing in archives, preservation, and records management from the University of Pittsburgh, and the equivalent to an MA in political science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is the archivist for the National Equal Justice Library at Georgetown Law Library and an independent historian based in Washington, DC. [End Page 252]
Stephanie Hinnershitz is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Cleveland State University in Ohio. Her research interests include Asian American and immigration history during the twentieth century. Her most recent book, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900–1968, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2015.
John Hinshaw has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and is a professor of history at Lebanon Valley College. He lives in Annville, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Ivette Guzmán-Zavala, their son, Lucas, and their dog, Sofi a.
Ryan Mathur is an isotope geochemist who is a professor and chair of the Geology Department at Juniata College.
Toni Pitock received her PhD in history from the University of Delaware. She is a lecturer at Ursinus College. Her manuscript in process explores the economic culture of Philadelphia's Jewish commercial community from its emergence in 1736 until the early 1820s.
Kristina E. Poznan is a PhD candidate in the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History at the College of William and Mary, specializing in the study of migration and ethnicity in the nineteenth century. Her forthcoming dissertation, "Migrant Nation-Builders: The Development of Austria-Hungary's National Projects in the United States, 1880s–1920s," makes extensive use of Austrian State Archives and Hungarian National Archives to illuminate the significance of transatlantic migration in shaping east-central European nationalisms.
Paul Sivitz received his PhD from Montana State University in 2012 and teaches in the Department of History at Idaho State University. He is an editor for, and contributor to, Narrative, Identity, and the Liberal Arts, which will be published by Routledge in 2017. Along with Billy G. Smith, Paul co-directs Mapping Historic Philadelphia, a digital history project that recovers the lives of Philadelphians during the 1790s. [End Page 253]
Billy G. Smith has been studying, writing, and teaching about early America for more than 117 years (or perhaps slightly less) and enjoyed almost every minute of it. He has published numerous books and articles about the topic, focusing in particular on issues of race, class, gender, inequality, and disease. He currently is partnering...
