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Christopher Agee
University of Colorado Denver
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Gay and Lesbian
Patrick Allitt
Emory University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
Environment and Natural Resources
Politics
Luis Alvarez
University of California, San Diego
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Ethnicity
Latino/a
Richard Aquila
Penn State University, Behrend College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Cold War
Film
Eric Arnesen
George Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Cold War
Great Depression
Annette Atkins
Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Civil Liberties, Security State
Immigration
Davarian L. Baldwin
Trinity College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Education
Intellectual
Matthew L. Basso
University of Utah
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Great Depression
Labor and Working Class
Katherine Benton-Cohen
Georgetown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Immigration
West
Women
Shana Bernstein
Northwestern University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Environment and Natural Resources
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Stephen Berry
University of Georgia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
General and Historiography
Lincoln
Keisha N. Blain
University of Pittsburgh
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Civil Rights
Brooke L. Blower
Boston University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Military
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
John E. Bodnar
Indiana University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
Post-1945
Mark Brilliant
University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Education
Legal and Constitutional
Post-1945
Janet Farrell Brodie
Claremont Graduate University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Cold War
Post-1945
Kathleen M. Brown
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Colonial
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Angus R. Burgin
Johns Hopkins University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Geraldo Cadava
Northwestern University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Demography
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Christopher Capozzola
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Immigration
Legal and Constitutional
Military
William D. Carrigan
Rowan University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
Civil War and Reconstruction
David Anthony Chang
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
1900-1945
George Chauncey
Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Family
Gay and Lesbian
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Great Depression
Labor and Working Class
Peter A. Coclanis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Antebellum
Business and Economics
N. D. B. Connolly
Johns Hopkins University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Capitalism
Blanche Wiesen Cook
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
Human Rights
Immigration
Nancy F. Cott
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Family
General and Historiography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Joseph Crespino
Emory University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Leadership
Politics
Print Culture
Spencer Crew
George Mason University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Jane E. Dailey
University of Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Legal and Constitutional
Race
Rebecca L. Davis
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Post-1945
Religion
Philip J. Deloria
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
General and Historiography
Social and Cultural
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
Gregory Downs
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
Civil War and Reconstruction
Don H. Doyle
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Lincoln
South
Mary L. Dudziak
Emory University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Legal and Constitutional
Military
Lynn Dumenil
Occidental College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
David C. Engerman
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Intellectual
International Relations
Glenn T. Eskew
Georgia State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
General and Historiography
Music
Candace Falk
Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Biography
General and Historiography
Immigration
John Fea
Messiah College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
Colonial
Religion
Crystal N. Feimster
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Civil War and Reconstruction
Elizabeth Fenn
University of Colorado Boulder
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
American Indian
Biography
Sharla M. Fett
Occidental College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Childhood and Youth
Medicine
Jill Fields
California State University, Fresno
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Film
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Jewish
Deborah K. Fitzgerald
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Business and Economics
Environment and Natural Resources
Neil Foley
Southern Methodist University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Cold War
Ethnicity
Catherine Forslund
Rockford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Biography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Max Paul Friedman
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
International Relations
Kevin Gaines
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Music
Populism
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
Malick W. Ghachem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Maine
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
Capitalism
Colonial
Tiffany M. Gill
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Business and Economics
David Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Immigration
Post-1945
Risa L. Goluboff
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Civil Rights
Human Rights
Linda Gordon
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Photography
Populism
Race
Sarah Barringer Gordon
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
1865-1900
Andrew R. Graybill
Southern Methodist University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
American Indian
Borderlands
Laurie Green
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Film
Food
Michael S. Green
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cold War
Amy S. Greenberg
Penn State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Antebellum
Borderlands
David Greenberg
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Cold War
General and Historiography
Julie Greene
University of Maryland, College Park
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Capitalism
Ariela J. Gross
University of Southern California
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Civil Rights
Civil War and Reconstruction
Michael Grossberg
Indiana University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Childhood and Youth
Family
Legal and Constitutional
Thomas A. Guglielmo
George Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Ethnicity
Melanie Gustafson
University of Vermont
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1865-1900
Digital history
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Brown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Race
Cindy Hahamovitch
University of Georgia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Human Rights
Immigration
Steven Hahn
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
American Indian
Civil Liberties, Security State
Jacquelyn D. Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
General and Historiography
John W. Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
American Indian
Andrew Hartman
Illinois State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Education
Intellectual
Post-1945
Susan M. Hartmann
Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General and Historiography
Politics
Post-1945
Kristin Hoganson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Transnational and Comparative
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Midwest
Madeline Y. Hsu
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Asian American
Cold War
Andrew J. Huebner
University of Alabama
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Family
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Benjamin H. Irvin
Indiana University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Class
Colonial
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Julia F. Irwin
University of South Florida
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Cold War
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Karl Jacoby
Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Environment and Natural Resources
Robert F. Jefferson Jr.
University of New Mexico
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Cold War
Disability
John W. Jeffries
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Great Depression
Politics
William P. Jones
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Class
Andrew W. Kahrl
University of Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Capitalism
Environment and Natural Resources
Walter D. Kamphoefner
Texas A&M University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
Peter Karsten
University of Pittsburgh
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
International Relations
Legal and Constitutional
Military
Michael Kazin
Georgetown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Jennifer Keene
Chapman University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Military
Social and Cultural
Robin D. G. Kelley
University of California, Los Angeles
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Intellectual
Politics
Post-1945
David Kennedy
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General and Historiography
Great Depression
Immigration
Ross A. Kennedy
Illinois State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Atomic Bomb
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Jennifer Lisa Klein
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Labor and Working Class
Post-1945
Kevin M. Kruse
Princeton University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Politics
African American
Bruce Kuklick
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Intellectual
International Relations
Lon Kurashige
University of Southern California
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Asian American
Immigration
Race
Adriane Lentz-Smith
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
African American
Social Movements
Jonathan Levy
University of Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Business and Economics
Nelson Lichtenstein
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Education
Leon F. Litwack
University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cold War
James H. Madison
Indiana University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
General and Historiography
Midwest
Katherine M. Marino
UCLA
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Human Rights
Kate Masur
Northwestern University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
African American
Civil War and Reconstruction
Louis P. Masur
Rutgers University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Intellectual
Lincoln
Elaine Tyler May
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Civil Liberties, Security State
Cold War
Laura McEnaney
Whittier College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Peace
Post-1945
Women
Robert J. McMahon
Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
International Relations
Deborah Dash Moore
University of Michigan
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Ethnicity
Immigration
International Relations
J. Todd Moye
University of North Texas
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Oral history
Post-1945
Andrew Needham
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Capitalism
Environment and Natural Resources
Christopher McKnight Nichols
Oregon State University; Oregon State University Center for the Humanities
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Civil Liberties, Security State
Lisa Norling
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
East
General and Historiography
Naval and Maritime
Alice O'Connor
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Kathryn Olmsted
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Great Depression
Labor and Working Class
Post-1945
Stephen R. Ortiz
Binghamton University, State University of New York
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Civil Liberties, Security State
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
David M. Oshinsky
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Cold War
General and Historiography
Susie J. Pak
St. John's University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
T. Michael Parrish
Baylor University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Rights
Civil War and Reconstruction
Military
Sarah T. Phillips
Boston University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Agricultural
Environment and Natural Resources
Kim Phillips-Fein
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Intellectual
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
Gay and Lesbian
Andrew Preston
Cambridge University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
International Relations
Religion
Patrick Rael
Bowdoin College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Civil War and Reconstruction
Jennifer Eden Ratner-Rosenhagen
University of Wisconsin–Madison
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
1900-1945
Randy W. Roberts
Purdue University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Film
General and Historiography
Marc Simon Rodriguez
Portland State University; Pacific Historical Review
