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  • Contributors

Scott Boehm

Scott Boehm is a Ph.D. student in Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where he teaches in the Dimensions of Culture program at Thur-good Marshall College. His work primarily focuses on the historical memory of violence, empire, and war, with an emphasis on the United States and Spain. He is also a playwright, freelance writer, and community activist.

Leonard Cassuto

Leonard Cassuto is a professor of English at Fordham University. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the editor or coeditor of three other volumes. He is finishing a cultural history of twentieth-century American crime fiction to be published by Columbia University Press.

David Chang

David Chang is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His research concerns discourses and practices of race and nation in American expansion and the American empire, Native American history, relations among Native Americans and African Americans, and rural class conflict. His current book project concerns the politics of race, nationalism, and land tenure in eastern Oklahoma, especially the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Cindy I-Fen Cheng

Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teaching and research interests include comparative racial formations, cultural studies, Asian American history and culture, and cold war culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled, They Too Are Americans: Discourses on National Belonging in the Age of Cold War Politics.

Jeffrey Louis Decker

Jeffrey Louis Decker is an adjunct associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey (1997), and has appeared on The [End Page 1275] Tyra Banks Show and The Maria Salazar Show as a guest-expert on race and racism. He is currently working on a manuscript titled The Godfather of Civil Rights: Black Power, White Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Politics and Culture, 1968-1978.

Michael A. Elliott

Michael A. Elliott is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism (2002), and the co-editor (with Claudia Stokes) of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader (2003). He is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Custerology: The Nineteenth-Century Indian Wars in the American Historical Landscape.

Maria Farland

Currently an associate professor of English and American studies at Fordham University, Maria Farland previously taught at Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, and Columbia Universities. A specialist in American literature, she has published essays on Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Wharton. She is completing a book on American literature and neurology.

Kathleen Franz

Kathleen Franz is assistant professor and director of public history in the History Department at American University. She is author of Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile (2005). Currently, she is curator for an exhibition on the architectural illustrations of David Macaulay at the National Building Museum that explores drawing as a form of visual archeology. She is also beginning a new research project on collective memory and historic preservation in the Southwest.

Susanna W. Gold

Susanna W. Gold is on the faculty of Temple University's Art History Department. She studies 19th- and early 20th-century American Art, with a focus on the post-Civil War era. Her areas of interest are issues of race, social relations, and exhibition theory. In her current book project, The Performance of Memory: Art, War, and Nation, she combines all three of these interests as she investigates the role of visual imagery and its presentation in reflecting, establishing and problematizing a collective national memory of the Civil War at Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition. [End Page 1276]

Helen H. Jun

Helen H. Jun is an assistant professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is currently completing a relational study of how Asian Americans and African Americans differentially emerged into U.S. citizenship during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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