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Contributors
Kenneth J. Bindas is a Professor of History at Kent State University and teaches at the Trumbull campus. He has published widely exploring the intersection of politics, culture, and ideology, especially during the Depression era, including "All This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project," and "Swing, That Modern Sound." This year will see the publication of "Hoover Chickens and Other Tales of the Great Depression: Oral History, Memory, and the American South."
Ann Bowers is the recently retired director of the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University. She now serves the Center as the part-time archivist for the National Student Affairs Archives. She has been an instructor in the Department of History teaching courses in women's history, Ohio history, and public history.
W. Sherman Jackson, Associate Professor of History at Miami University, specializes in American Constitutional History and Law, Presidential Studies, Civil War and Reconstruction. His current projects are “LBJ and the Age of Segregation” and “The Civil War Amendments: An Era of Constitutional Reform.” He is the author of Reconstruction: the Lost Promise and co-editor of Black Scientists and Inventors. Dr. Jackson has served on the advisory committee for the National Underground Railroad Museum and as history consultant to the National Park service.
Kevin 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 Galton Society (an early twentieth-century eugenics organization) and its influence on the development of American Anthropology.
G. Richard Kern is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Findlay. He specializes in the history of religion and is the author of John Winebrenner: 19th Century Reformer and Findlay College: The First Hundred Years.
Molly Merryman is an assistant professor of Justice Studies at Kent State University, where she also has faculty affiliations with History, LGBT Studies, and Women's Studies. She is currently editing a broadcast documentary on the topic addressed in this journal piece.
Gregory 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.
