Notes on Contributors

Omar H. Ali is Associate Professor of Comparative African Diaspora History and Interim Dean of Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his PhD in History from Columbia University and was selected as the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year. His latest book, Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean, was published by Oxford University Press.

Lloyd E. Ambrosius is Emeritus Professor of History and Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition (1987), Wilsonian Statecraft (1990), and Wilsonianism (2002). He is the president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

James M. Beeby is dean of the College of Liberals Arts and professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana. He was previously professor of history and chair at Middle Tennessee State University from 2012–2016, and before that he taught at Indiana University Southeast and West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890–1901 (2008) and Populism in the South Revisited (2012). Beeby has published several articles and essays on grassroots politics, populism, and race relations in the Gilded Age.

Matthew Bowman is Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University. He is the author of The Mormon People: The making of an American faith (2012), and The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism (2014).

Kathleen Dalton is a specialist in US history, though she has written about transnational history and taught world history. Her biography of Theodore Roosevelt was published in 2002. She has taught at Phillips Academy and Boston University.

Justus D. Doenecke is Emeritus Professor of History at New College of Florida. He has written extensively on the Gilded Age; American entry into World War I; the foreign policies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman; and isolationism and pacifism from World War I through the early Cold War. Among his books is The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (1981). He is grateful to Irwin Gellman, John Belohlavek, and Alan Peskin for their reading of this essay.

Bruce J. Evensen is the Director of the Journalism Program at DePaul University in Chicago. For a decade he was a reporter and bureau chief in the American Midwest, in Washington, DC and in Jerusalem. He’s written and edited several books on journalism history, including Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (1992); When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum and Storytelling in the Jazz Age (1996); God’s Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism (2003); The Responsible Reporter: Journalism in the Information Age (2008); and The Encyclopedia of American Journalism History (2007).

Maureen A. Flanagan is Professor of History in the department of humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology. She previously taught at Michigan State University. Flanagan is the author of several books and essays on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, including America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s and Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933. She is working on a manuscript on gender and the built environment of Chicago, Toronto, Dublin, and London from the 1870s to the 1940s.

Julie Greene is Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park and the author most recently of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (2009). The Canal Builders won the James A. Rawley Prize, awarded by the Organization of American Historians for the best work on the history of race relations. Greene’s interests revolve around US and transnational labor and immigration history. With Ira Berlin, she is founding Co‐Director of the Center for the History of the New America, which is dedicated to generating knowledge of the history and politics of global migrations. From 2013 to 2015 Greene served as President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is currently working on a project examining labor migration and US Empire from 1885 to 1934.

Cristina V. Groeger is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “Paths to Work: Inequality and the Politics of Education, 1880–1940,” examines the political processes through which the rapid expansion of education and training for men and women reshaped access to jobs and the structure of opportunity in the United States.

Julia Guarneri is University Lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Making Metropolitans: Newspapers and the Urbanization of Americans, 1880–1930, will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Kimberly A. Hamlin is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the author of From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America (2014). Her 2011 article in American Quarterly, “The Case of a Bearded Woman,” won the Margaret Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Nineteenth Century Studies Society.

David C. Hammack is Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. His books include Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century (1982), Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (1998), and with Helmut Anheier, A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations (2013). Ideals and Visions, Leverage and Self‐help: Foundations in America’s Regions, edited with Steven R. Smith, is to appear in 2017. Hammack holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia universities, has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting scholar at Yale and the Russell Sage Foundation. He received both the Distinguished Achievement and Leadership Award of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, and Case Western Reserve University’s John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching.

Alexandra Harmon is Professor Emerita of American Indian Studies and History at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound (1998) and Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (2010). She edited The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (2008).

David Huyssen is a Lecturer in American History at the University of York, specializing in the history of US political economy and urban life. He is the author of Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920 (2014), and his research interests encompass all aspects of capitalism from the nineteenth century to the present.

Brian M. Ingrassia is Assistant Professor of History at West Texas A&M University. He formerly taught at Middle Tennessee State University and Georgia State University. The author of The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big‐Time Football (2012), Ingrassia has published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is currently writing a book on automobile racing, urban culture, and the good roads movement in the early 1900s.

Raised in the Midwest, Thomas J. Jablonsky returned to the region for the past twenty years as a member of Marquette University’s History Department. In between, he spent 25 years in Los Angeles, most of that time at the University of Southern California. His scholarship has included books on Chicago and Milwaukee; current work focuses on an encyclopedia of Milwaukee (as a co‐senior editor) and on a study of LA’s nineteenth‐century mayors.

Benjamin Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He is author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003), Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place (2008), a collaboration with photographer Jeffrey Gusky, and Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation (2017). He also serves as co‐editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Robert D. Johnston is Professor of History and Director of the Teaching of History program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He serves as co‐editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His book The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003) won the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. A multiple‐award‐winning teacher, Johnston works extensively with K‐12 teachers in professional development programs.

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