Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
David A. Davis is Director of Fellowships and Scholarships, Associate Professor of English, and Associate Director of the Spencer B. King, Jr., Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University. He is the author of World War I and Southern Modernism (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2017), which won the Eudora Welty Prize in 2018. He has published more than thirty essays on southern literature and culture; he edited a reprint of Victor Daly's novel Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2010) and a reprint of John L. Spivak's novel Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang: Originally Published as Georgia Nigger (Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2012); and he co-edited Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways with Tara Powell (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2014).
Sandra R. Heard is currently the 10th grade dean and chair of the History and Social Sciences Department at the Potomac School in McLean, Va. Heard earned a Ph.D. in American Studies at The George Washington University. Her research primarily focuses on the interplay of consumer culture, race and politics. She has taught classes on urban history, sexuality, identity formations, government, civil rights, and social movements in the US. Before starting her career as an educator in the D.C. area, Heard worked as an architect and community organizer in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Benjamin Schmack is a PhD candidate in the American Studies Department at the University of Kansas. Schmack's dissertation focuses on the historical rivalry between American Communists and the Ku Klux Klan and what their frequent clashes reveal about hate and extremism in the United States. He earned an MA in History at Northern Illinois University in 2015. He is also an active union member and former Secretary of AFT Local 6403.
John Stromski is an independent scholar. His book project explores the ways slavery influenced representations of Northern labor throughout the nineteenth century.
Sharon R. Vriend-Robinette is an independent scholar living in Grand Rapids, MI. Her scholarship focuses on twentieth century cultural race-relations in an effort to understand how oppression, power and agency interact. She has been employed in higher education in West Michigan for over twenty years. Professionally and personally, Vriend-Robinette works to insure education systems are equitable and inclusive and that learners at all levels have access to opportunities. [End Page 119]
