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Catherine Allgor
Massachusetts Historical Society
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
General and Historiography
Leadership
Gabriela F. Arredondo
University of California, Santa Cruz
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
Mia Bay
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Katherine Benton-Cohen
Georgetown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Immigration
West
Women
Daina Ramey Berry
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Slavery
Women
Mary Sarah Bilder
Boston College Law School
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Legal and Constitutional
Revolutionary and Early National
Women's Rights, Activism, and Suffrage
Maylei S. Blackwell
UCLA
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Latino/a
Women
Social Movements
Keisha N. Blain
Brown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Civil Rights
Eileen Boris
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Labor and Working Class
Women's Rights, Activism, and Suffrage
Social Welfare and Public Assistance
Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Kalamazoo College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
Material Culture and Architecture
Anne M. Boylan
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General and Historiography
Public History and Memory
Social and Cultural
Ann D. Braude
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Religion
September 11
Women
Catherine A. Brekus
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Jennifer Brier
University of Illinois at Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
LGBTQ+
Medicine
Oral history
Kathleen M. Brown
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Colonial
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Victoria Bissell Brown
Grinnell College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
Family
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Susan Burch
Middlebury College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Disability
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Nicole Burrowes
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Transnational and Comparative
African American
Cathleen D. Cahill
Penn State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Race
Joan E. Cashin
Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Environment and Natural Resources
William H. Chafe
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Cold War
Brenda J. Child
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Public History and Memory
Women
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Politics
Women
Labor and Working Class
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Temple University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Post-1945
Race
Blanche Wiesen Cook
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
Human Rights
Immigration
Deirdre Cooper Owens
University of Nebraska-Lincoln; The Library Company of Philadelphia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
African American
Medicine
Nancy F. Cott
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
World War I Interwar (1918-1941)
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Sexuality
Karen L. Cox
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Civil War and Reconstruction
Adrienne D. Davis
Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
General and Historiography
Intellectual
Cornelia H. Dayton
University of Connecticut
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Colonial
Disability
Catherine Denial
Knox College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
American Indian
Borderlands
Sarah Deutsch
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
General and Historiography
Tracey Deutsch
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Food
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Rachel Devlin
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Childhood and Youth
Civil Rights
Education
Hasia Diner
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antisemitism and Religious Persecution
Ethnicity
Food
Thomas Dublin
Binghamton University, State University of New York
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Digital history
Ethnicity
Great Depression
Lynn Dumenil
Occidental College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Rutgers University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
East
Carolyn Eastman
Virginia Commonwealth University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Laura F. Edwards
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Nan Enstad
University of Wisconsin-Madison
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Mass Communications
Candace Falk
Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
General and Historiography
Immigration
Crystal N. Feimster
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Civil War and Reconstruction
Ruth Feldstein
Rutgers University-Newark
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Family
Post-1945
Sharla M. Fett
Occidental College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Childhood and Youth
Medicine
Corinne T. Field
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Old Age
Race
Women's Rights, Activism, and Suffrage
Jill Fields
California State University, Fresno
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Film
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Jewish
Tanisha C. Ford
The Graduate Center, CUNY
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Women
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Matt Garcia
Dartmouth College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Borderlands
Business and Economics
Edith B. Gelles
Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
Colonial
General and Historiography
Liette Gidlow
Wayne State University; Harvard Radcliffe Institute
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Women's Rights, Activism, and Suffrage
Civil Rights
Judith Giesberg
Villanova University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
Civil War and Reconstruction
Tiffany M. Gill
Rutgers University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Business and Economics
Lori D. Ginzberg
Penn State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
General and Historiography
Politics
Susan A. Glenn
University of Washington
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Jewish
Thavolia Glymph
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Slavery
Susan Goodier
SUNY Oneonta
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Lesley J. Gordon
University of Alabama
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Biography
Civil War and Reconstruction
Linda Gordon
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Photography
Populism
Race
Laurie Green
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Film
Amy S. Greenberg
Penn State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Antebellum
Borderlands
R. Marie Griffith
Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Medicine
Ariela J. Gross
University of Southern California
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Race
Slavery
Legal and Constitutional
Kali Nicole Gross
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Jennifer Guglielmo
Smith College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Labor and Working Class
Women
Social Movements
Gayle Gullett
Arizona State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Leadership
Mass Communications
Melanie Gustafson
University of Vermont
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1865-1900
Digital history
Jacquelyn D. Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
General and Historiography
Françoise N. Hamlin
Brown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Public History and Memory
Kimberly A. Hamlin
Miami University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Women
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Sharon Harley
University of Maryland, College Park
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Capitalism
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
LaShawn Harris
Michigan State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
New York
Anthea M. Hartig
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Public History and Memory
Material Culture and Architecture
Social and Cultural
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
Business and Economics
Susan M. Hartmann
Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General and Historiography
Politics
Post-1945
Allyson Hobbs
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Family
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Joan Hoff
Montana State University, Bozeman
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Civil Rights
General and Historiography
Heather A. Huyck
Natl Park Service, US House Representatives, William & Mary; NCWHS/ Co-Chair, Research & Interpretation
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Colonial
Margaret Jacobs
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Childhood and Youth
Women
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Caroline E. Janney
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
East
General and Historiography
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Ball State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
LGBTQ+
Oral history
Martha S. Jones
Johns Hopkins University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Intellectual
Legal and Constitutional
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
University of California-Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Slavery
Women
Mary Kelley
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Mass Communications
Kathi Kern
University of Kentucky
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
Intellectual
Legal and Constitutional
Wilma King
University of Missouri-Columbia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Childhood and Youth
Jennifer Lisa Klein
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Labor and Working Class
Post-1945
Wendy Kline
Purdue University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Medicine
Science
Sarah Knott
Indiana University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Revolutionary and Early National
Barbara Krauthamer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
American Indian
Civil War and Reconstruction
Elizabeth D. Leonard
Colby College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Civil War and Reconstruction
Laura L. Lovett
University of Massachusetts Amherst
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Biography
Karen Lystra
California State University, Fullerton
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
Antebellum
Jen Manion
Amherst College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Katherine M. Marino
UCLA
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Human Rights
Women's Rights, Activism, and Suffrage
Latino/a
Lisa G. Materson
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Latino/a
Elaine Tyler May
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Civil Liberties, Security State
Cold War
Serena Mayeri
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Family
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Legal and Constitutional
Stephanie McCurry
Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Micki McElya
University of Connecticut
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Women
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Race
Laura McEnaney
Vice President, Research and Education, Newberry Library
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Peace
Post-1945
Women
Danielle L. McGuire
University of Utah; Independent Scholar
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Carol Lynn McKibben
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Immigration
Military
Joanne Meyerowitz
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
International Relations
Post-1945
Tiya Alicia Miles
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
African American
American Indian
Marla R. Miller
University of Massachusetts Amherst
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
General and Historiography
Material Culture and Architecture
Jennifer Mittelstadt
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Great Depression
Military
Barbara Molony
Santa Clara University; Co-President, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Post-1945
Maria E. Montoya
New York University; New York University Shanghai
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Capitalism
Environment and Natural Resources
Jennifer L. Morgan
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Colonial
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Sowande' M. Mustakeem
Washington University in St. Louis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Women
Medicine
Premilla Nadasen
Barnard College, Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Class
Michelle Nickerson
Loyola University, Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Leadership
Mass Communications
Susan Eva O'Donovan
University of Memphis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Alison M. Parker
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Women
Social Movements
Paula Petrik
George Mason University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Rebecca Jo Plant
University of California, San Diego
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Family
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Medicine
Claire Bond Potter
The New School
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Digital history
LGBTQ+
Jacki Thompson Rand
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Midwest
Public History and Memory
Sherie M. Randolph
Georgia Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Civil Rights
Leslie J. Reagan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Disability
Family
Legal and Constitutional
Leah Wright Rigueur
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Naomi Rogers
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Disability
Medicine
Post-1945
Hannah Rosen
William & Mary
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Race
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Vicki L. Ruiz
University of California, Irvine
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Education
Ethnicity
Andrea Sachs
St. Paul Academy and Summit School
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Family
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Social Movements
Beryl E. Satter
Rutgers University-Newark
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Capitalism
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Jennifer Scanlon
Bowdoin College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Capitalism
Virginia Scharff
University of New Mexico
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Environment and Natural Resources
General and Historiography
Revolutionary and Early National
Patricia Schechter
Portland State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Latino/a
New York
Oral history
Johanna Schoen
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Medicine
Post-1945
Sexuality
Donna C. Schuele
California State University, Los Angeles; UCLA Center for the Study of Women
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Borderlands
Civil Liberties, Security State
Constance B. Schulz
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Colonial
Digital history
Leslie A. Schwalm
University of Iowa
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Family
Stephanie J. Shaw
Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Business and Economics
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Childhood and Youth
Civil Rights
Suzanne E. Smith
George Mason University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Music
Terri L. Snyder
California State University, Fullerton
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Revolutionary and Early National
Slavery
Robyn C. Spencer
Lehman College, CUNY
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Social Movements
Marjorie J. Spruill
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Politics
Brenda E. Stevenson
University of California, Los Angeles
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Family
Landon R. Storrs
University of Iowa
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Civil Rights
Cold War
Susan Strasser
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
African American
Patricia Sullivan
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Education
Human Rights
Lisa Tetrault
Carnegie Mellon University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Barbara L. Tischler
Empire State College SUNY; Hunter College, CUNY
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
General and Historiography
Music
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Colonial
Family
General and Historiography
Lea VanderVelde
University of Iowa
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Antebellum
Borderlands
Lara Vapnek
St. John's University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
General and Historiography
Elizabeth R. Varon
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
General and Historiography
Juliet E. K. Walker
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Wendy Warren
Princeton University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
African American
Colonial
Judith Weisenfeld
Princeton University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Film
Barbara Y. Welke
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Legal and Constitutional
Race
Technology and Industry
Carmen Teresa Whalen
Williams College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Labor and Working Class
Latino/a
Transnational and Comparative
Jeannie Whayne
University of Arkansas
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Agricultural
Civil War and Reconstruction
Leigh Ann Wheeler
Binghamton University, State University of New York
