Contributors
Terry A. Barnhart is associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois and coordinator of the department's M.A. in Historical Administration Program. Prior to joining the history faculty in 1994, he was curator of history at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. He has published articles on 19th-century U.S. social and cultural history, the history of American anthropology, and Midwestern history and culture.
Ben Fallaw, assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois, has completed a book manuscript, entitled "Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Yucatan, 1935-1940" forthcoming from Duke University Press. He is currently working on a book on race and national identity in Mexico.
Newton E. Key is graduate coordinator and associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois. A specialist on Stuart Britain, he has published articles on Restoration religion and politics, county feasts, and local political culture in England and Wales. He is co-writing both a textbook and documents reader on Tudor-Stuart England for Blackwell.
Daniel A. McMillan is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois. He is currently writing a book on the gymnastics movement in 19th-century Germany.
Debra Ann Reid, instructor of history at Eastern Illinois, recently completed her dissertation at Texas A&M University on African Americans and rural reform, 1870-1940. She has spoken on museum interpretation, rural studies, and minority history at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Poland, and Finland. She has articles and reviews forthcoming in Rural History, Agricultural History, and an anthology entitled The Countryside and the State.
Nora Pat Small, assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois, teaches architectural history and historic preservation in the MA in Historical Administration program. Dr. Small has had articles published in the William & Mary Quarterly and in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture on late 18th- and early 19th-century social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the vernacular built environment.
Mark Voss-Hubbard is assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois. A specialist in mid 19th-century U.S. social and political history, Dr. Voss-Hubbard's work has appeared in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of American History. He is currently revising a book manuscript for the Johns Hopkins University Press on nonpartisan political activism and the coming of the Civil War in the northern United States.
Christopher Waldrep, professor of history at Eastern Illinois, is the author of two books on race, crime, violence, and vigilantism in particular places. The first, Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915, appeared in 1993. His second book, Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80 came out in 1998. He is at work now on a history of lynching.