List of Contributors

Rolando Avila is lecturer in American Heritage in the History and Philosophy department at the University of Texas-Pan American. He received an MA in History and an EdD in educational leadership from the University of Texas-Pan American. He has published more than fifty articles on various historical topics.

Amanda Bahr-Evola is a senior archives specialist and lecturer at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and is author of The Mississippi River Festival.

Melanie A. Bailey is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Centenary College of Louisiana. She received her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

John H. Barnhill is an independent scholar in Houston, Texas. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University.

James Bratcher is an independent scholar in San Antonio, Texas. He received his PhD from the University of Texas.

Arthur Brokop II is an independent scholar in Shiprock, New Mexico. He received a degree in religion and philosophy from Roberts Wesleyan College.

Jessica Buck is associate professor of technology at Jackson State University. She received her PhD at Mississippi State University.

William E. Burns teaches history in the Washington, D.C., area. His books include An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727 (2002), A Brief History of Great Britain (2010), and Knowledge and Power: Science in World History (2011).

Hsiao-Yun Chu is associate professor in the Department of Design and Industry at San Francisco State University. She received her MA at Stanford University.

Rick Clapton is on the faculty of history at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Eric Connon is a doctoral candidate at Central Michigan University with a focus on Atlantic and maritime history, and he is a history instructor at a private school in Boston, Massachusetts. His research focuses on slave-trade suppression efforts during the nineteenth century.

Justin Corfield is a teacher of history and international relations at Geelong Grammar School. He is the author of Encyclopedia of Singapore and coeditor of The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia.

Jeff Cunion is an adjunct instructor at Tarleton State University and has worked in the aerospace industry for over thirty years. He received his PhD from Indiana State University.

Steven L. Danver is academic coordinator and core faculty in the social sciences at the College of Undergraduate Studies at Walden University. He received his PhD in history from the University of Utah. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West and coeditor of The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia.

Peter Dorey is professor of British politics and director of postgraduate teaching in the Department of Politics at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He is the author/editor of twelve books, the most recent of which is British Conservatism: The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality.

Matthew E. Elam is an independent scholar in Commerce, Texas. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University.

David Fasulo is a free-lance independent scholar.

Dominic Fazarro is associate professor in the Department of Human Resources Development and Technology at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his PhD from Iowa State University.

Ismail Fidan is a professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Technology and a faculty associate at the Center for Manufacturing Research at Tennessee Tech University. He received his PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Rachel Finley-Bowman is associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Education at Elizabethtown College. She earned her PhD in history at Lehigh University.

John Flanagan was a historian from Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Christopher Fritsch is an independent scholar in Dallas, Texas. He received his master’s degree in Modern American History at the St. Cross College, University of Oxford.

Donato Gómez-Díaz is professor of economics and business at the Universidad de Almería, Spain.

Bruce Ormond Grant is a social scientist from Brooklyn, New York. He received his PhD from Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Pamela Lee Gray teaches at Indiana Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She received her PhD in history from the University of Southern California.

Skylar Harris is adjunct professor in history and American studies at Rowan University. She is also the assistant editor of the journal New Jersey History and the grants program manager for the New Jersey Historical Commission. She received her MA in history from SUNY-Buffalo and has recently earned a provisional certification status from the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Richard A. Hawkins is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Politics & War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. He did his postgraduate studies in the Economic History Department at the London School of Economics. He specializes in the economic and business history of the United States from the 1840s to the Second World War.

John Allen Hendricks is professor of mass communication and chair of the Department of Mass Communication at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is the author/editor of eight books on electronic media. He received his PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr. is Hardin Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Midwestern State University. He received his PhD in history from the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency.

Kenneth E. Hendrickson III is professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He received his PhD at the University of Iowa.

Vincent W. Howell is manager, Information Security and Policy, at Corning Incorporated. He is a fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and received his MA in Organization and Management from Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of Quality Improvement through Continuing Education: An Engineer’s Guide for Life-Long Learning.

Dawn P. Hutchins is an adjunct professor of history at Palm Beach State College. She received her MA in history from Florida Atlantic University, and she is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

François Jarrige is assistant professor in contemporary history at the Université de Bourgogne, France.

Leigh Kimmel is an independent scholar in Carbondale, Illinois. She received her MA in history from Illinois State University.

Stephanie Koscak is a postdoctoral fellow in the History of the Material Text at University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. She received her PhD from the University of Indiana.

Melissa Kotulski is at the University of Iowa College of Law. She received her MA in American Studies from Trinity College.

Bill Kte’pi is an independent scholar and writer, with a master’s degree in history from the University of New Orleans. He has previously been published in numerous encyclopedias and reference works, as well as contributing to several volumes of American history textbooks for advanced high school students.

Sweta Lal is an independent scholar in Melbourne, Australia.

Sally L. Levine is a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University and a visiting faculty associate in the University’s Center for Health and Aging, and a lecturer in the master’s program at the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Planning at Cleveland State University.

Joel Lewis is adjunct professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University. He is the author of Youth against Fascism: Young Communists in Britain and the United States, 1919–1939.

Thomas P. Martin is on the faculty of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

Eric Martone is assistant professor of history and social studies education at Mercy College. He received his PhD in history from Stony Brook University. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture.

Sarah McHone-Chase is head of user services in the library at Northern Illinois University. She received her MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Adam T. Michalski works at the Texas Historical Commission. He received his MA in history from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Patit Paban Mishra is visiting professor at Universiti Utara Malaysia College of Law, Government and International Studies, Malaysia.

Victoria Nagy is a guest lecturer in the School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia. She received her PhD from Monash University.

Jürgen Nautz is professor of economic history at University of Vienna, Austria, and senior lecturer of business administration at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Dusseldorf.

Caryn E. Neumann is lecturer in integrative studies and affiliate in history at Miami University Middletown. She received her PhD in history from The Ohio State University.

Jennifer Banach Palladino is an independent scholar in Unionville, Connecticut.

Yovanna Pineda is assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida. She received her PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890–1930.

Nicole Radziwill is assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. She received her PhD from Indiana State University.

Steven Sagarra is an independent scholar in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his degree in history from the University of Missouri, and he has contributed to several encyclopedic projects, scholarly journals, and websites, including the Encyclopedia of World History and Encyclopedia of U.S. Indian Policy and Law.

Janet H. Sanders is an assistant professor in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University. She received her PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina A & T State University.

Leslie Rogne Schumacher is visiting lecturer in history at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He received his PhD in history from the University of Minnesota.

Antonio Thompson is associate professor of history at Austin Peay State University. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky.

Lana Thompson is an independent scholar with a background in anthropology and the history of medicine. She works in the University Center for Excellence in Writing at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and during academic breaks photographs cats in cemeteries.

Elizabeth Throop is associate professor of graphic design in the Welch School of Art + Design at Georgia State University. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University.

William P. Toth is adjunct professor of English at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University.

Martijn van der Burg is assistant professor of history at the Open University of the Netherlands. He received his PhD in history from the University of Amsterdam.

Phillip Waldrop is a retired professor of mechanical and electrical engineering at Georgia Southern University. He was educated at Ball State University and Purdue University.

Andrew J. Waskey is professor of social sciences at Dalton State College. He received his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Tim Watts is a content development librarian at Kansas State University.

Todd Webb is assistant professor of history at Laurentian University, Canada. He is author of Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec.

Brett Woods is professor of history for the American Public University System. He received his PhD from the University of Essex.