Contributors
- Contributors
Jessica Dimka is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Missouri. Her dissertation research addresses sex differences in health and the impact of social networks on the spread of disease in a small Newfoundland community.
Marc Egnal is professor of history at York University, Toronto. Among his books are Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth (1996) and Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War (2009). He is working on the connection between social change and the evolution of literature and art in the United States.
Andrew S. Fullerton is associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include work and occupations, political sociology, social stratification, and quantitative methods. His work has been published in journals such as Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Research, and Sociological Methods and Research. He is working on several projects related to the causes and consequences of perceived job insecurity in the United States and the European Union.
Wesley Hiers is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation examines the origins of state-sanctioned racial closure in the universe of former European settlement colonies and its subsequent development in the specific context of the United States. He is working on a project that investigates the long-run historical roots of contemporary xenophobia across Europe.
Svenn-Erik Mamelund holds a PhD in demography and is a senior research scientist at Work Research Institute in Oslo. His areas of research include influenza epidemiology, influenza vaccine use, and the effects of marriage on health, sick leave, and mortality. His recent articles have appeared in Epidemics, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Vaccine. [End Page 309]
Lisa Sattenspiel is professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri. Her recent research involves the collection of archival data and computer simulation of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador. She is author of The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases: Models and Applications (2009) and of articles in the journals Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Vaccine.
Michael J. Stern is a methodology fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago and assistant professor of sociology at the College of Charleston. His research interests include political sociology, civic engagement, quantitative methods, and, most recently, the role of southern women's voluntary associations in mobilizing political participation over time. His work has been published in such journals as City and Community, Field Methods, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Work and Occupations. [End Page 310]
