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c o n t r i b u t o r s 22 5 Alice M. Baldrica, author of the definitive treatment of Frederick West Lander and the Pyramid Lake War, graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a B.A. and M.A. in anthropology. She has worked at the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office since 1981 and has served as deputy administrator since 1989. Michael J. Brodhead is a professor emeritus, history, University of Nevada, Reno. He has also worked for the National Archives and Records Administration and the Nevada State Archives and is now a historian at the Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia. His research interests include western American travel and exploration, military history, judicial biography, and American naturalists. Dennis Dworkin is an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He teaches British and Irish history and cultural theory. Bernadette C. Francke received her M.A. in American studies from Antioch College and is the author of several articles on Nevada history. She continues to research nineteenth-century Nevada photographers. Cheryll Glotfelty is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she cofounded the Literature and Environment graduate program and teaches courses in American literature and Nevada literature. She coedited The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology with Harold Fromm and has published many essays on western American literature. She is currently editing an anthology of the literature of Nevada. Michael Green is a professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada . He is coeditor of Nevada: Readings and Perspectives; editor and interviewer for A Liberal Conscience: Ralph Denton, Nevadan; book-review editor of the Ne- 2 2 6 | c o n t r i b u t o r s vada Historical Society Quarterly; and a history series editor for the University of Nevada Press. He is the author of Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War. Mella Rothwell Harmon is a historic preservation specialist with the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, where she serves as coordinator for the National Register of Historic Places program. Ms. Harmon holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in land-use planning, with an emphasis on historic preservation, from the University of Nevada, Reno. Rachel Harvey is pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. Her M.S. thesis focused on the media coverage of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, and her doctoral research expands on her interest in Nevada by examining the state’s goldmining industry in relation to globalization. Ronald M. James, historian and folklorist, is the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer, having administered the agency since 1983. He is the author of four books, including The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. He serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno. Susan James has an M.A. in history from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught for fifteen years. Her definitive article on Bulette appeared in Nevada Magazine in 1984 and is one of her many publications, including Castle in the Sky: George Whittell Jr. and His Thunderbird Lodge, a book recently coauthored with her husband, Ronald James. Jeffrey M. Kintop has been a Nevada historian for twenty-four years and a state archivist for twenty years. His areas of interest include Nevada’s territorial history and the political history of the state. He has contributed to numerous publications and projects concerning Nevada history. Sharon Lowe is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Arts Division at Truckee Meadows Community College, where she teaches American history and women’s studies. She is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation on a global study of women and drug use. Michon Mackedon is an English professor and chair of the Communications and Fine Arts Division at Western Nevada Community College. A native of Nevada, she [54.198.146.224] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:55 GMT) c o n t r i b u t o r s | 2 2 7 is working on a book that explores ways in which language has been deployed to “spin” nuclear events in the state, including the siting of Yucca Mountain. Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe was born in the Basque Country and came to the United States in 1964. He received his M...