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Gar Alperovitz
The Democracy Collaborative; University of Maryland College Park
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
Cornell University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
Capitalism
Education
James R. Barrett
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Class
Ethnicity
Sven Beckert
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Catherine A. Brekus
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Peter A. Coclanis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Tracey Deutsch
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Food
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Nan Enstad
University of Wisconsin-Madison
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Mass Communications
Barbara J. Fields
Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Intellectual
Military
Donald L. Fixico
Arizona State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Borderlands
Business and Economics
Lacy K. Ford
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Steve Fraser
Independent historian
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Marisa J. Fuentes
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
African American
Archives and Bibliography
Matt Garcia
Dartmouth College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agricultural
Borderlands
Business and Economics
Lawrence B. Glickman
Cornell University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Julie Greene
University of Maryland, College Park
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Capitalism
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
University of California, Davis
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
Business and Economics
Andrew Hartman
Illinois State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Education
Intellectual
Post-1945
Louis Hyman
Cornell University; Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Walter Johnson
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Capitalism
Midwest
Robert Douglas Johnston
University of Illinois at Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Class
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Medicine
Jennifer Lisa Klein
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Labor and Working Class
Post-1945
Jackson Lears
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Intellectual
Jonathan Levy
University of Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Business and Economics
Walter M. Licht
University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Labor and Working Class
Technology and Industry
Nelson Lichtenstein
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Education
James Livingston
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Great Depression
Mary Ting Yi Lui
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Asian American
Cold War
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Alexis McCrossen
Southern Methodist University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Social and Cultural
1800-1865
Technology and Industry
Ajay K. Mehrotra
American Bar Foundation; Northwestern University School of Law and History Department
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Stephen A. Mihm
University of Georgia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
1900-1945
Bethany Moreton
Dartmouth College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Labor and Working Class
Jennifer L. Morgan
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Colonial
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Donna Murch
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen
Barnard College, Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Class
Julia Ott
New School for Social Research
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Kim Phillips-Fein
New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Intellectual
Seth Rockman
Brown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Joshua Rothman
University of Alabama
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Business and Economics
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
Carole Shammas
University of Southern California
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Childhood and Youth
Susan Strasser
University of Delaware
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
African American
Lara Vapnek
St. John's University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
General and Historiography
Juliet E. K. Walker
University of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Barbara Y. Welke
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Legal and Constitutional
Race
Technology and Industry
Craig Steven Wilder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Colonial
Education
Mabel O. Wilson
Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Antebellum
Interdisciplinary Theory/Studies
Victoria Saker Woeste
American Bar Foundation
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Agricultural
Capitalism
Victoria W. Wolcott
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
