Contributors
- Contributors
Aaron Astor is an Associate Professor of History at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. He is the author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (Louisiana State University Press, 2012) and has contributed several essays to the New York Times Disunion series on the Civil War.
Lawrence Celani is a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri. The title of his dissertation is “They Came Apart at the Seams: The Long History of the Mississippi River Border.”
Joy M. Giguere is an Assistant Professor of History at Penn State York, where she teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, technology, western medicine, and death and mourning. Her work has been published in several journals, including The Journal of the Civil War Era, The Journal of Southern History, and The Journal of the Early Republic. Her first book is Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival (University of Tennessee Press, 2014). She is currently working on a social and cultural history of the rural cemetery movement in nineteenth-century America, to be published by the University of Michigan Press.
Bayyinah S. Jeffries is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University. She holds a PhD in African American and African Studies from Michigan State University. Her previous publications explore the historical intersections of race, gender, and religion, and the history of black social movements. She is working on a manuscript about the student movement in Ohio.
Micheal J. Larson is an award-winning teacher of American history in the School District of Menomonie, Wisconsin. He and John David Smith are co-editors of Dear Delia: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Joseph Pearson is an Assistant Professor of History at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. The author of several journal articles, his first book, The Whig Promise: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson & Clay, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky. He is currently working on a book-length study of Shakespeare and the creation of frontier society across the antebellum Ohio River basin. A native Kentuckian and graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of Alabama, he is a former US Marine, devoted husband, and proud father of four children.
John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author or editor of thirty books and serves as the Journal of American History’s contributing editor for documentary editions.
