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2005-2006

John J. Bukowczyk received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1980 and currently is Professor of History and Director of the Canadian Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. Editor of the /Journal of American Ethnic History, /Bukowczyk has authored or edited several books, including /Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990/ (2005), / Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics/ (1996),/ Detroit Images: Photographs of the Renaissance City/ (1889), and /And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans /(1987). Bukowczyk's recent work in immigration and ethnic history has focused on race and ethnic relations. In 1996, Bukowczyk won the American Historical Association's inaugural William Gilbert Award for the Best Article on Teaching History for his co-authored article entitled "The American Family and the Little Red Schoolhouse: Historians, Class, and the Problem of Curricular Diversity," which appeared in the Fall 1994 issue of/ Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.

Madeline Hsu's life, like her scholarship, bridges the United States and Asia. Hsu, a professor of Asian American studies since 1996, researches Asian immigrants to the United States, particularly those who came from China or Taiwan. It's a topic of great professional and personal interest to Hsu, who traces much of the inspiration for her work to her grandfathers and their tales of life as immigrants.

After finishing undergraduate work at Pomona, Hsu began a doctoral program in Chinese history at Yale. She intended to study medieval Chinese women's history, but soon turned to an interest born out of her family history -- Chinese emigration. "I was somewhat of an anomaly at Yale," Hsu says. "The university was strong in Chinese history and in American studies, but there wasn't anyone specifically working on Asian American studies." As a result, Hsu developed a strong background in both Chinese history and American studies, which served her well when it came time to write her dissertation on the migration of men to America from Taishan, a coastal province of China. Until 1965, more than half of all Chinese in America came from Taishan.

Hsu conducted research on the West Coast and in China, combing through Chinese language gazetteers, newspapers and magazines. She also interviewed men in both countries about the trials of long-distance marriages. Her research led to her dissertation, a 2001 book Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home and her position at SFSU.

Dr. Barry Joyce, Associate Professor, is the Director of the History Secondary Education program at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995. Last year he published The Shaping of American Ethnography; The Wilkes Exploration Expedition, 1838-1842 (2001). He teaches courses on the American West, Native American History, and the Gilded Age. He also leads study programs into the American Southwest for both Delaware students and German teachers. His research interests include any topic that enables him to better understand the origin, evolution and shaping of American images and ideas.

In 2003 the National Council of Social Studies gave the highest possible rating to Joyce’s Secondary Education program. NCSS considers the program to be a model for Secondary Education programs nationwide. Dr. Joyce has recently been commissioned to conduct workshops for teachers in Germany, helping them to incorporate American history and culture into their English and Social Studies instruction.

Dr. Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York (1968) and his M.A.(1971) and Ph.D. (1975) from Cornell University. In 1995, he was Visiting Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University. Dr. Kraut is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the history of medicine in the United States, and nineteenth century U.S. social history.

He is the author of four books and over a hundred articles and book reviews. His books include, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982; rev. 2001), an edited volume, Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the Relationship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System(1983), American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 (co-authored), and Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994). The latter volume won several national awards, including the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book in History by an established author. His scholarship has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Institutes of Health.

Active in bringing history to a broader, non-academic audience, he has served as a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island History Committee, a consultant to the National Park Service, and an adviser to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, as well as an historical consultant to documentaries broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Station and the History Channel. In 2000, he was elected President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the largest organization of immigration scholars in the country. He is also sits on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.

In spring, 1999 Dr. Kraut was named American University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year, the institution's highest academic honor.

Cathy Matson teaches courses in the early modern Atlantic World, colonial America, Revolutionary America, and U.S. Historiography, and is currently engaged in researching the comparative regional economies of New York City and Philadelphia from roughly 1720 to 1820. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985.

Mark J. Miller joined University of Delaware in 1978. He specializes in Comparative Politics, European Politics and Migration Studies.

Dr. Miller teaches courses in European politics, international migration, Arab/Israeli politics, comparative political terrorism and the politics of post-industrial states. His research interests include comparative immigration and refugee policies, global migration and migration and security.

Dr. Margaret (Meg) M. Mulrooney is General Education Cluster II Coordinator and Associate Professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, she received her B.A. from the University of Delaware and her master’s and Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary. Her areas of expertise are public history and American social history from 1800-1920. She is the author of Black Powder, White Lace: The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (University Press of New England, 2002) and editor of a volume of essays called Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 (Praeger, 2003). Her next book is tentatively titled “A Hundred Years of Fear: Remembering the Wilmington (NC) Race Riot of 1898.”

Stephen J. Pitti is Associate Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University.

Professor Pitti, who was raised in Sacramento, California, and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1998, is the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California (2003) and articles on Chicano history and historiography. He is currently working on two book projects: The World of Céasar Chávez (forthcoming, Yale University Press) and Leaving California: Race from the Golden State (in process).

He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Western History, 20th-century immigration, civil rights, and related subjects. He currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Yale's American Studies Program. And he directs the Latina/o History Project, which explores ethnic Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latino histories in the United States, their links and divisions, their diversity, and their cultures and politics.

Carmen T. Whalen is associate professor of history at Williams College, where she teaches courses in Latina/o history. She is author of From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies (2001). Currently, she is coediting a book that explores the historical origins and community-building efforts of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Her most recent research focuses on Puerto Rican women, New York City’s garment industry, and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union in the post-World War II era.

2004-2005

Erica R. Armstrong specializes in 19th century African American and Women’s History. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 2000. She is working on her first book entitled, Negro Wenches, Washer Women, and Literate Ladies: The Transforming Identities of African American Women 1780-1850.

Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University where she won the Bancroft Dissertation Award. She is professor of history at Baruch College and deputy chair of the department of history at the Graduate Center. She teaches early American and women’s history.

Robert Hayman, is Professor of Law at Widener Law School,and the H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law for 2003-2005.Professor Hayman received a B.A. from Davidson College in 1978, a J.D. fromGeorgetown University Law Center in 1981, and an LL.M. from Temple University School of Law in 1990. Following graduation from law school, Professor Hayman served as Staff Attorney, Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Kansas City, from 1981-82 and Assistant Director and Clinical Instructor in the DC Street Law Project from1982-85. He was also a Lecturer at the University of Missouri, Kansas City from 1987-90. Professor Hayman is admitted to practice in Missouri. Professor Hayman teaches Constitutional Law and Equal Protection Law, and seminars in: Disability Law (with Dan Atkins, Esq.); Jurisprudence; PovertyLaw (with Dan Atkins, Esq.); Race, Gender and Sports; and Selected Topics in Constitutional Law (with the Hon. Joseph R. Biden, Jr.). He has published casebooks on Jurisprudence (with Professors Nancy Levit and Richard Delgado)and Sports and Inequality (with Professor Michael Cozzillio).

James Magee, recieved his Ph.D. from University of Virginia. He specializes in Public Law. Professor Magee teaches courses in U.S. constitutional law, American politics, and introductory political science. His current research interest is freedom of speech.

James Marten is Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Texas – Austin in 1986. He is one of the foremost scholars on children in American history. 

His books include:

• Children for the Union : The War Spirit on the Northern Homefront(2004)
• Civil War America : Voices from the Homefront ( 2003)
• Children and War: A Historical Anthology , Editor. ( 2002)
• The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Stories , Editor. ( 2001)
• The Children's Civil War (2000).
• Lessons of War: Selections from Children's Magazines During the Civil War (1999)

Dr. Marten’s teaching philosophy, in his own words:

Cathy Matson teaches courses in the early modern Atlantic World, colonial America, Revolutionary America, and U.S. Historiography, and is currently engaged in researching the comparative regional economies of New York City and Philadelphia from roughly 1720 to 1820. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985.

Linda R. Monk is a nationally award-winning author and journalist. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she has twice received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, its highest honor for law-related media. Her book The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide (Close Up Publishing, 3rd ed., 2000, foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) won the Silver Gavel in 1992, and her work on the documentary Profiles of Freedom: A Living Bill of Rights earned a Silver Gavel in 1998.

In 2000, Linda Monk also won the American Perspectives Writing Competition ($15,000 first prize) for her essay on the Bill of Rights, “Why Founding Father Doesn’t Know Best.” Said Doris Kearns Goodwin of her entry: “Monk demonstrates, and with convincing passion, that is the people--and not the Founding Fathers--who are responsible for protecting and enlarging American freedom.”

Linda Monk is the editor of Ordinary Americans: U.S. History Through the Eyes of Everyday People (Close Up Publishing, 1994, foreword by Ken Burns), a collection of 200 first-person stories that tell history as the average American actually lived it.

In addition to books, Linda Monk has also written commentary articles as a freelance journalist for more than 16 years. Her articles on legal and historical issues have appeared in newspapers nationwide--among them the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Des Moines Register, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. For more than 12 years, she designed curriculum materials and academic programs for the Close Up Foundation, a nonprofit civic education organization.  

Francis N. Stites is an Emeritus Professor of History at San Diego State University (1968-2000). He taught high school History and English in Indiana from 1961 to 1964 before earning his Ph.D in History from Indiana University in 1968.  Professor Stites is a specialist American Constitutional History in the Early National Period 1787-1835. His publications include Public Interest and Private Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819 and John Marshall:" Defender of the Constitution.

Professor Stites has spent nearly 40 years investigating ways both to make professional historians aware of the challenges in teaching history (including cooperating with teachers as colleagues in that endeavor) AND developing ways to prepare better teachers of history, especially but not exclusively those undergraduates preparing to teach history.  He has worked extensively at the local state and national levels toward achieving this goal.  His overall professional goal is to demonstrate that it is possible and desirable to be a successful professional historian, and a skilled teacher who works closely with teachers of history at all levels.

Susan Strasser is Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in 1978 from SUNY Stony Brook and has been at UD since 1999. She is the author of Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982), Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989), and Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (1999); the co-author of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (2000) and Washington: Images of a State's Heritage (1988); and the co-editor of Getting and Spending: American and European Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 (1998). A scholar of everyday life in a consumer culture, she has taught courses on American industrialization, environmental history, business history, and the history of consumption.

2003-2004

Brooke Hunter, teaches American history including courses on the American Revolution, Native Americans, and the environment at Rider University. She is currently the Faculty-in-Residence for Ziegler Hall, the freshman residence hall on campus. Her research concentrates on the intersection of economic, cultural, and ecological revolutions in early America. Currently revising a manuscript for publication tentatively entitled, Rage for Grain: The Revolutionary Economy of the Mid-Atlantic Region. It is a study of the regional grain economy in the mid-Atlantic, focusing on, in particular, the flour milling sector of the Lower Delaware Valley.

Dr. Sharon V. Salinger, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at University of California, Riverside. She specializes in early American history. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1978. Her first book, To Serve Well and Faithfully (Cambridge University Press, 1987) traces the history of unfree labor, servants and slaves, in colonial Pennsylvania. Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) explores the obvious and obscure ends that alcohol met in colonial society. She is currently working on a book-length study, with Cornelia Dayton, on poverty and migration into eighteenth-century Boston. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, Labor History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. She is the recipient of the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award.

J. A. Leo Lemay, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor, went through the ranks at UCLA, 1965-77 (assistant, associate, and professor) and came to the University of Delaware in 1977 as a named professor. Excluding online publications, he has written seven books and edited nine, all in early American literature. His more than fifty articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Early American Literature, PMLA, and the William and Mary Quarterly, on topics mainly in early American literature but also on Poe, the humor of the Old South, and intellectual history.He is considered one of America’s foremost experts on the works of Benjamin Franklin. A tribute to his scholarship appeared in Early American Literature 35 (2000): 1-4.

Dr. Barry Joyce, Associate Professor, is the Director of the History Secondary Education program at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995. Last year he published The Shaping of American Ethnography; The Wilkes Exploration Expedition, 1838-1842 (2001). He teaches courses on the American West, Native American History, and the Gilded Age. He also leads study programs into the American Southwest for both Delaware students and German teachers. His research interests include any topic that enables him to better understand the origin, evolution and shaping of American images and ideas.

In 2003 the National Council of Social Studies gave the highest possible rating to Joyce’s Secondary Education program. NCSS considers the program to be a model for Secondary Education programs nationwide. Dr. Joyce has recently been commissioned to conduct workshops for teachers in Germany, helping them to incorporate American history and culture into their English and Social Studies instruction.

Dr. Thomas J. Humphrey earned his doctorate at Northern Illinois University, was a Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and, more recently, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. His book Land and Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution will be out in the Fall of 2004, and he has written essays on poverty and on rough music in Early America. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University.

Dr. Carla Gardina Pestana, is currently W. E. Smith Professor at Miami University. She earned her Ph.D. degree at UCLA (1987) and taught for many years at the Ohio State University before joining the Miami faculty in 2003. She is the author of Quakers and Baptists in colonial Massachusetts (Cambridge U. Press, 1991; recently reissued in paperback). With Sharon Salinger she edited Inequality in Early America (1999). Her English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661, will be published in 2004 by Harvard University Press. At present she is working on two volumes, Religion in the British Atlantic World, 1530-1830 (publication anticipated in 2005), and The Atlantic Origins of English Imperialism. She has held numerous fellowships, including a Huntington Library-National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1996-97) and an American Philosophical Society sabbatical year fellowship (2002-3).

Dr. Ruth Wallis Herndon, associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toledo, teaches courses in Colonial and Revolutionary America. She received her PhD from The American University in 1992. Her dissertation and subsequent research focus on "forgotten" people in early New England: Native Americans, African Americans, women, children, and the poor. She has presented many papers on this subject at scholarly conferences and has published a number of journal articles and book chapters. An essay she coauthored with Narragansett elder Ella Wilcox Sekatau, "The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials, 1750-1800," originally published in the journal Ethnohistory in 1997, was awarded the Heizer prize by the American Society for Ethnohistory for the best article published in the field of ethnohistory that year and has since been reprinted in several anthologies. Her book on the transient poor in the eighteenth century, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. Her current project, undertaken collaboratively with Dr. John E. Murray of the UT Department of Economics, is a study of children bound out to labor in early America, and is supported by a major grant from the Spencer Foundation. Their first published essay from this project (Journal of Economic History, June 2002) was awarded the best article prize from the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia.  Murray and Herndon are presently preparing for publication a collection of essays, authored by various scholars, most of which were originally presented at a specially convened "Children Bound to Labor" conference at the University of Pennsylvania in November 2002. Dr. Herndon also continues her collaboration with Ella Sekatau to produce a history of early New England from a joint Narragansett and English perspective, using both oral tradition and archival documents.

Dr. Janet A. Tighe is Co-Director of the Health and Societies Program and a member of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the history of medicine, popular health, and health policy.  She received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is the co-editor with John H. Warner of Major Problems in the History of Medicine and Public Health (Houghton Mifflin, 2001).  Her articles on the history of American medicine and psychiatry, medical education, and medical-legal issues have been published in the American Journal of Legal History, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Reviews in American History, and other scholarly journals.  Tighe has been awarded the both the Provost’s Teaching Award  for outstanding contributions to the graduate and undergraduate curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania (1999) and the Dean’s Teaching Award (2004).   She has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.  She is currently working on projects dealing with the changing role of the expert medical witness in the American legal system and a history of the insanity defense in the United States, as well as continuing her work on medical schools and the role they have played in the American medical profession’s expansion of social authority.

Dr. Thomas R. Rocek is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware, with a specialty in the archaeology of the Southwestern United States. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan, studying archaeological evidence of economic and social change in a 19th to 20th century Navajo community in Arizona. More recently, his research has focused on the emergence of early village farming communities in southeastern New Mexico in the first millennium AD. He is the author of Navajo Multi-Household Social Units (University of Arizona Press), The Henderson Site Burials (Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan; coauthored with John Speth), and coeditor of Seasonality and Sedentism (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, coedited with Ofer Bar-Yosef).