Contributors
- Contributors
Annie Anderson is the manager of research and public programming at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia. She develops exhibits, audio stops, signage, and programs about the history of the building; the people who lived and worked there; and the evolving identity of the American criminal justice system. Anderson is a cultural historian who studies race, class, gender, sexuality, vice, crime, and morality. She has a decade of experience doing primary source research in archives big and small—authoring essays, a local history book, and exhibits along the way. She collaborates with academics, genealogists, front line interpreters, and museum visitors with an eye toward connecting the past to the present and revealing larger historical trends. Recent career highlights include researching and cowriting the exhibit Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration and serving as a contributor to MASS Action (Museum As Site For Social Action), a project promoting equity and inclusion in museums.
Taylor Bagwell is a student at Christopher Newport University majoring in American Studies and finance. She has published two articles on Eastern State Penitentiary's blog and plans to attend law school.
Celia Caust-Ellenbogen is an archivist at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Tajah Ebram is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on twentieth and twenty-first century Black literature, history, and culture, with particular interests in Black feminism, prison writings, carceral studies, cultural geography, digital humanities, and Philadelphia Black radicalisms. She cofounded the Black Cultural Studies Collective, a reading and working group based in African diasporic studies at Penn. She is currently writing her dissertation, entitled Black Urban Revolution: A Cultural History of MOVE and the Radical Everyday in West Philadelphia.
Beth English is director of the Project on Gender in the Global Community at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University. She is a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and an instructor with Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative. She received her PhD in history from the College of William and Mary, where she was a Glucksman Fellow and visiting assistant professor, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. English's research and teaching focus primarily on gender, historical and contemporary labor and working-class issues, culture and society, global economy, and the US and Global Souths. She is the coeditor of Global Women's Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy (with Mary E. Frederickson and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama); author of A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry; and a contributing author to several edited volumes focusing on gender and on the US South. Her article "'I . . . Have a Lot of Work to Do': Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888–1895" was recognized as one of the Organization of American Historians' Best American History Essays of 2008 (David Roediger, ed.). She is the producer and host of the podcast Working History.
Jen Manion is associate professor of history at Amherst College and author of Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which received the 2016 Mary Kelley Best Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Manion is coeditor of Taking Back the Academy: History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge, 2004) and author of the forthcoming book Female Husbands: A Trans History (Cambridge, 2020).
Steve Marti is a historian of the First World War, based in Kingston, Ontario. He developed an interest in digital history while completing his PhD at the University of Western Ontario and had the opportunity to apply these skills as a digital humanities fellow with the Library of the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
John McWilliams is an American historian focusing on twentieth century social/political history. He has published a book and articles on federal drug control, the intelligence community and organized crime in the Cold War, black firefighters in Philadelphia, and...
