NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Donna Akers is an enrolled tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her book, Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830–1860, was published in 2004 by Michigan State University Press. She is currently working on a new monograph, An Indigenous History of the United States.

Heather N. Atherton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a historical archaeologist concentrating on European and Native American interactions in North America, colonialism, and identity. Her current research focuses on the expression of Hispanic identity during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Spanish colonial New Mexico.

Eiichiro Azuma is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (New York, 2005) and a co-editor of Yuji Ichioka's Before Internment: Essays in Japanese American History (Palo Alto, CA, 2006).

Martin A. Berger is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture (Berkeley, CA, 2005) and Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood (Berkeley, CA, 2000).

Jerome E. Edwards taught at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1965 to 2001 and wrote Pat McCarran, Political Boss of Nevada (Reno, NV, 1982) plus numerous articles on Nevada gambling. He is an editor of the Online Nevada Encyclopedia and received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004.

Sterling Evans is Canada Research Chair in History at Brandon University in Manitoba. He edited The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays in Regional History (New York, 2006) and wrote Bound in Twine: An Environmental and Transnational History of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Yucatan and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 (forthcoming).

Donna R. Gabaccia is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Professor of Immigration History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books and articles on immigration to the United States and Italian migration around the world. Most recently, she has co-edited with Vicki Ruiz the anthology American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking US Immigration History (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press).

Kathleen Garces-Foley is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount University. She is the author of Crossing the Ethnic Divide: The Multiethnic Church on a Mission (New York, forthcoming) and editor of Death and Religion in a Changing World (Armonk, NY, 2006). She is currently studying the movement to create multiethnic churches across denominational traditions.

Gerhard Grytz is Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Texas at Brownsville. His research focuses on the formation and transformation of ethnic and cultural identities, especially among German immigrants in the American West. He published articles on the myth and reality of German/Indian relations in L'échange: modalités et représentations (Paris-Sorbonne, 2005), German and Mexican Americans in South Texas in Studies in Rio Grande Valley History I & II (Brownsville, 2005, 2006), and Yavapai culture transformation in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2000). Currently, he is working on a book manuscript analyzing the invention of German identities in the American Southwest.

John W. Heaton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. His research focuses on American Indians and the culture of capitalism. He recently published The Shoshone-Bannocks: Culture and Commerce at Fort Hall, 1870–1940 (Lawrence, KS, 2005). Currently, he is developing a research project on the Athabascan peoples of Alaska's interior.

Jennifer S. Hirsch is Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality and reproductive health, U.S.-Mexico migration, migrant health, and anthropological and faith-based approaches to public health. Her current major project is an NIH-funded, multinational, ethnographic exploration of the factors that put married women at risk for HIV infection.

Richard S. Kim is Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Michigan in 2002. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, "Diasporic Dilemmas: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and Transnational State-making, 1903–1945."

Margaret Lynch-Brennan has been an administrator with the New York State Education Department since 1979. Since completing her Ph.D. in 2002, she has presented at conferences in Germany, Australia, Ireland, and the United States. Her publications include "Ubiquitous Bridget: Irish Women in Domestic Service, 1840–1930," in Making the Irish American, ed. Joseph J. Lee and Marion R. Casey (New York, NY, 2006).

Gail D. MacLeitch is a lecturer in American studies at King's College, London. Her forthcoming book explores economic and cultural entanglement between the Iroquois Indians and British Empire in the mid-eighteenth century. She has articles published in the Journal of American Studies, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and various edited collections.

Dana Y. Nakano is a M.A. student in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. His research interests include social theory, social movements, and assimilation and adaptation among later-generation Asian Americans. He is currently writing his thesis on leadership and mobilization in panethnic Asian American non-profit organizations.

LeiLani Nishime is Associate Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She is a co-editor of the anthology East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (New York, NY, 2005). Her articles on mass culture and mixed race representations have appeared in Amerasia, Cinema Journal, MELUS, and several anthologies.

Monica Perales is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston. Her teaching and research interests include Chicana/o labor and social history, immigration, and borderlands. She is currently working on a manuscript titled "Smeltertown: A Biography of a Mexican American Community, 1880–1973," which explores community identity and transnational labor in El Paso, Texas.

Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her many publications include From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America and Cannery Women, Cannery Lives She and Virginia Sánchez Korrol edited Latina Legacies. Both were honored with a "21 Leaders for the 21^st Century" award by women's e-news network for the three-volume Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, Ruiz is the immediate past President of the Organization of American Historians and President-elect of the American Studies Association.

David R. Smith is an academic advisor and lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is co-author of Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650–1990 (Pittsburgh, PA, and Calgary, Alberta, 2005).

Karim M. Tiro is Associate Professor of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is co-editor of Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani (Philadelphia, PA, 2006). He is currently working on a history of the Oneida Indian Nation.

William E. Van Vugt is Professor of History at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth Century Immigrants to the United States (Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1999) and British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1750–1920 (Kent, OH, 2006).

Liping Zhu is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Washington University and specializes in the history of the American West. His works include A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (Boulder, CO, 1997) and Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills (Pierre, SD, 2004). Currently he is working on a book manuscript about the Denver Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880.