Contributors

Arthur DeMatteo, a native Clevelander, is Senior Lecturer of History at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. He has published articles in his areas of expertise, labor and early 20th-century American history.

Patsy Gerstner PhD. was director of the Dittrick Medical History Center from 1979 through 1998, and Curator from 1965 through 1978. She is presently retired and works as a volunteer at the Center.

Walter Hixson is Professor of History at the University of Akron. His research and teaching fields include U.S. foreign relations, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and crime. He is also the author of numerous books, including Murder, Culture, and Injustice: Four Sensational Cases in American History (University of Akron Press, 2000) and Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (St. Martin’s press, 1997). Dr. Hixson is currently working on an interpretive history of U.S. foreign policy tentatively entitled Monsters to Destroy: American Identity and the Crisis of U.S. Foreign Policy that will be published by the Yale University Press.

Melvin G. Holli is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author and co-editor of fifteen books on urban, ethnic, and political history, including The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders. His newest book, The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling, was recently released by Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press.

Kevin F. Kern is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Akron and Managing Editor of the Northeast Ohio Journal of History. He specializes in the fields of Ohio history and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States social and intellectual history. Dr. Kern is currently working on a study of the American physical anthropological community's connection to the early twentieth-century eugenics movement.

Stephen Paschen is Senior Archives Associate at the University of Akron, Archival Services, and History Bibliographer for University Libraries. His publications include, Order in the Court: The Courts and the Practice of Law in Akron, 1787-1945 (1997), Speaking of Summit: An Oral History Handbook (1989), and Shootin' the Chutes: Amusement Parks Remembered (1988).

Christopher S. Stowe is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at the University of Toledo. His specialties include the American Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. military history, Native American studies, and the Atlantic World. Chris is currently writing his doctoral dissertation, a critical biography of George Gordon Meade.

Laura Travis has worked in commercial photography and web design. She has a BA in History, and has had training in photographic preservation.

Greg Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Akron, specializing in environmental history, public history, and the United States since 1945. His is currently working on two publications: an article that will appear in the International Journal of Social History in 2002 entitled “’Our Chronic and Desperate Situation’: Pennsylvania, Deindustrialization, and the Emergence of Redevelopment Policy in the United States, 1945-1965” and a forthcoming chapter in Beyond the Ruins: Deindustrialization and the Meanings of Modern America titled “Deindustrialization, Poverty, and Federal Area Redevelopment in the United States, 1945-1965,” which will be published by Cornell University Press in 2003. Dr. Wilson is also the Publication Director of the Northeast Ohio Journal of History.