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Richard Aquila
Penn State University, Behrend College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Cold War
Film
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
Kevin Boyle
Northwestern University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
General and Historiography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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
Albert Camarillo
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Civil Rights
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Clayborne Carson
Stanford University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Civil Rights
William H. Chafe
Duke University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Cold War
David Anthony Chang
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
1900-1945
Seth Cotlar
Willamette University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
Antebellum
Jefferson Cowie
Vanderbilt University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Civil Rights
Class
Rachel Devlin
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Childhood and Youth
Civil Rights
Education
David C. Engerman
Yale University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Intellectual
International Relations
Nan Enstad
University of Wisconsin-Madison
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Mass Communications
John Fea
Messiah College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
Colonial
Religion
Daniel Feller
University of Tennessee
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
American Indian
Antebellum
Neil Foley
Southern Methodist University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Cold War
Ethnicity
François Furstenberg
Johns Hopkins University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
General and Historiography
Mario T. García
University of California Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Education
Immigration
Latino/a
Lawrence B. Glickman
Cornell University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antebellum
Business and Economics
Capitalism
David Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Immigration
Post-1945
Julie Greene
University of Maryland, College Park
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1865-1900
1900-1945
Capitalism
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Brown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Biography
Race
Paul Harvey
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Religion
Civil Rights
Race
Michael K. Honey
University of Washington Tacoma
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
General and Historiography
Frederick E. Hoxie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Borderlands
General and Historiography
William P. Jones
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Class
Walter D. Kamphoefner
Texas A&M University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
Michael Kazin
Georgetown University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Alan M. Kraut
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antisemitism and Religious Persecution
Ethnicity
General and Historiography
Peter J. Kuznick
American University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Atomic Bomb
Cold War
World War II
Clarence Lang
The Pennsylvania State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Labor and Working Class
Midwest
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Harvard University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Interdisciplinary Theory/Studies
Medicine
Melani McAlister
George Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Antisemitism and Religious Persecution
Cold War
International Relations
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
Premilla Nadasen
Barnard College, Columbia University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Business and Economics
Class
Alice O'Connor
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Business and Economics
Capitalism
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Jason M. Opal
McGill University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Antebellum
General and Historiography
Annelise Orleck
Dartmouth College
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Immigration
Jewish
Christopher Phillips
The University of Cincinnati
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
E. Anthony Rotundo
Phillips Academy Andover
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Scott A. Sandage
Carnegie Mellon University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
American Indian
Alex M. Saragoza
University of California, Berkeley
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Borderlands
Civil Rights
Ethnicity
Ellen Schrecker
Yeshiva University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Civil Liberties, Security State
Cold War
Education
Thomas Alan Schwartz
Vanderbilt University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
International Relations
Manisha Sinha
University of Connecticut
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1800-1865
1865-1900
African American
Gregory D. Smithers
Virginia Commonwealth University; British Academy
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1700-1800
1800-1865
American Indian
Paul Spickard
University of California, Santa Barbara
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Asian American
Borderlands
Marjorie J. Spruill
University of South Carolina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Elections, Electoral College, Voting Rights
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Politics
Randall Stephens
University of Oslo
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Digital history
Dust Bowl
Music
Matthew Avery Sutton
Washington State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Great Depression
Intellectual
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Princeton University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Post-1945
Race
Heather Ann Thompson
University of Michigan
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Crime, Violence, Incarceration
Phil Tiemeyer
Kansas State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Capitalism
Civil Rights
Gay and Lesbian
Penny M. Von Eschen
Cornell University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cold War
General and Historiography
International Relations
Jessica Wang
University of British Columbia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Agricultural
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Leigh Ann Wheeler
Binghamton University, State University of New York
