Contributors
- Contributors
Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson teaches courses in US History at Santa Clara University. Her research and teaching focuses on religion, childhood, race, and gender in the nineteenth century. She earned her B.A. in History from California State University, San Marcos, her M.A. from the University of California Irvine, and her Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Joseph Thomas Ross is the Ph.D. Fellow in Political History at the University of Missouri's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. His research studies Anglo-American imperialisms in the trans-Appalachian West from the 1760s to the 1820s, particularly the contrasts between private and public forms of settler colonialism. He would like to thank Brian Schoen, Sarah Kinkel, Chester Pach, the late Andrew Cayton, Donald Ratcliffe, Mizzou's HGSA colloquium, two anonymous readers, and the editorial staff at Ohio Valley History for their help and guidance with this article.
Aaron D. Purcell is professor and director of special collections and university archives at Virginia Tech. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee in 2006. Purcell received a Filson Fellowship in 2017 to explore the labor activities of Ethel du Pont. He has authored or edited 8 books on topics such as radicalism in the early Tennessee Valley Authority, the historiography of the New Deal, Arthur Morgan, digital libraries and archives, and the relationship between donors and archives. Purcell is currently completing an edited book on federal removal projects in the Appalachian South during the mid-twentieth century and an edited book of Civil War letters from an Ohio surgeon. [End Page 2]
