Contributors
- Contributors
Neil S. Forkey is a member of the Canadian Studies Department at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. He is the author of Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press, 2012); and, Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley (University of Calgary Press, 2003).
Linda L. Johnson is Professor Emerita, Department of History, Concordia College—Moorhead, MN. She is a historian of Japan, writing about US-Japanese cultural relations, focusing on the participation of women.
Sharon Williams Leahy is an independent scholar currently at work with her husband Christopher Leahy on a biography of First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler. She earned a Master's degree in Historic Preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is co-author of "The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too," which was published in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to First Ladies, and co-author of an upcoming essay on Julia Tyler for a book on Southern First Ladies that will be published by the University of Kansas Press.
Carol Sheriff is a professor of History at William & Mary, and her publications include The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862, which won the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association. She has also written about the American Civil War and its place in twentieth-century memory, and she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled "'Not a brother's war': America's Embattled Textbooks," which examines how state-history textbooks have portrayed contested historical events from the 1860s through the present and the public activism that they have inspired.
Philip G. Swan has served as a faculty member at Hunter College since 2000. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and the Head of Reference and Instruction for the Hunter College Libraries.
Amy Werbel's scholarship examines the relationship between censorship and cultural expression, focusing on the United States before World War I, and the lessons this period holds for our current moment. Her most recent book is Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock, which was published by Columbia University Press in spring, 2018. She is also the author of Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Yale University Press, 2007). Werbel currently serves as Associate Professor of the History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Thomas S. Wermuth is associate professor of history and Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College. He is the author of Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720 to 1850, and is currently working on a project examining popular culture, public life, and festive play in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Hudson Valley region.
