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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
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
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
Darren Dochuk
University of Notre Dame
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Environment and Natural Resources
Politics
Post-1945
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
R. Marie Griffith
Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
1900-1945
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity
Medicine
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
Frederick E. Hoxie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
American Indian
Borderlands
General and Historiography
Michael Innis-Jiménez
University of Alabama
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Ethnicity
Food
Immigration
William P. Jones
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
African American
Civil Rights
Class
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
Erika Lee
University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Asian American
Immigration
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
