Contributors
- Contributors
Emily Bingham is an independent historian in Louisville, Kentucky. Her current book project tells the life story of one iconic song, Stephen Foster's 1853 "My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight." Her previous books include the prize-winning Irrepressible: The Jazz-Age Life of Henrietta Bingham and Mordecai: An Early American Family. She coedited The Southern Agrarians and the New Deal and has taught at Centre College, University of Louisville, and Bellarmine University.
Carolyn Brooks is a distilled spirits historian and historic preservation consultant who has done extensive research for the distilling industry. She was the author of the "George T. Stagg Distillery" National Historic Landmark nomination, listed in 2011, and was formerly director of Farmington Historic Plantation in Louisville, Kentucky.
Peter Morrin is Director Emeritus of the Speed Art Museum and a retired professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of Louisville. An art historian and art critic, he is currently co-coordinator of "Afloat: An Ohio River Way of Life," a consortium dedicated to calling attention to the Ohio River, its beauty, its needs, and its unmet potential.
Emma Newcombe holds a PhD in American & New England Studies from Boston University. She is currently working on a book manuscript about antebellum tourism and print culture. She has taught courses at Boston University, Boston Architectural College, and Skidmore College. Her scholarship has been published in Material Culture and Early American Literature.
Rebecca Richart is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include immigration, labor, and human-animal relations. She is currently writing her dissertation on social and labor relations in the US horse racing industry. Her ethnographic fieldwork in Kentucky included observation at the racetrack during work hours and community events, work with racetrack nonprofit organizations, interviews in English and Spanish, and archival research at the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Kentucky Historical Society, the Filson Historical Society, and the University of Louisville.
Daniel Vivian is chair of the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky. His research concentrates on the social and cultural history of the American South during the era of Jim Crow. He is the author of A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and coeditor of Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of the New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900-1940 (Lexington Books, 2015). His essay, "Interpreting the History of the Underground Railroad in Southwest Ohio: The John P. Parker House," appeared in the fall 2011 issue of Ohio Valley History.
