adamsj@acsu.buffalo.edu
My interests are in the history of technology in American culture; amusement parks and leisure time; urban development and architectural design; seashore resort history; the circus in America; and pulp/popular fiction.
Lockwood Library, University of Buffalo
| Tom Bierowski
thb2@lehigh.edu Dept of English, Lehigh University |
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acb8@Lehigh.EDU
Main subject areas: popular culture & media cultures; gender, sexuality, and the body
What floats my academic boat? Film and popular culture, composition & rhetoric, and contemporary american literature. I also dig indiepop and vegetarian food. Send me photos of robots.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
http://www.lehigh.edu/~acb8
Joanna Brooks
brooks.j@mail.utexas.edu
Main subject areas: Literature and text studies; Race,
ethnicity, and identity; Religion and religious cultural studies
My research centers around early American literature, culture, religion,
and intellectual history, with emphases on early African American and Native
American writers. Other interests include Quakerism, Freemasonry,
early
American esoterica and mysticism.
Dept of English, U of Texas at Austin
Harry J. Brown
hjb3@Lehigh.EDU
Main subject areas: American Studies; Frontier and Borderlands
Studies; Diaspora, Colonialism and Postcolonialism; Nationalism and Postnationalism;
Literature and Text Studies; Folkore and Anthropological Studies
My main professional interest is early American lit, though I do have
a fairly substantial background, both from teaching and from my minor field
exam, in "pop culture" and "cultural studies."
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Lauren Brown
LBrown@NPG.SI.EDU
My work interests center around U.S. History & historical editing,
museums (current and institutional histories), and art information sites.
My personal research and interests include the performing arts (particularly
dance - LOC's American Memory has a very interesting collection - An American
Ballroom Companion, Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 ) and
mass media & consumer culture.
Editorial assistant for the Charles Willson Peale Family Papers
project
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Craig Coenen
crc4@Lehigh.EDU
Dept. of History, Lehigh University
Tracey A. Cummings
tac4@Lehigh.EDU
My areas of interest are primarily 19th and 20th century American literature
and history. I'm also interested in feminist studies.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Susan E. Cushman
sec4@lehigh.edu
Main subject areas: American literature, Multicultural literature,
Women’s and Gender Studies; Feminist Theory; Postmodernism; Romantic poetry
and prose.
I enjoy reading, writing, and teaching in the fields above, and I favor
an interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching which requires study
of one or more of these fields at the same time. My dissertation-in-progress,
“The Politics of Storytelling,” focuses on postmodern literary strategies
in ethnic autobiography that facilitate cultural and feminist critique.
I look forward to reviewing sites in American Studies; Race, Class and
Gender Studies; Border Studies; and Postmodernism.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
John Dockall
jdockall@bishopmuseum.org
I received both my M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M
University. My specializations include Hawaiian and Pacific archaeology,
North American archaeology, lithic technology, microscopic use-wear
analysis and stone tool replication and experimentation. I have
participated in fieldwork in Jordan, Belize, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
Other interests include military history, running, mountain biking, and
caving.
Associate Anthropologist, Bernice P. Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice St.
Honolulu, HI 96817-2704
Jeff Finlay
jfinlay@UMUC.EDU
Former member of the Crossroads staff, Founding Father of SiteScene,
now administrating at Center for the Virtual University, University
of Maryland University College
| Edward J. Gallagher
ejg1@lehigh.edu Prof of English, specialty in the Early American period, but have taught the whole range, especially lately courses in multiculturalism and in film (the Western, Oliver Stone). Dept. of English, Lehigh University http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/ejg1.html |
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Susana L. Gallardo
slg@stanford.edu
I'm currently teaching in Religious Studies at Occidental College,
and I'm definitely interested in reviewing sites for Site Scene in American
Religions, Feminist Studies, and/or Ethnic Studies (particularly Chicana/o
and Latina/o studies). I'm the founder/keeper of the Chicana Feminisms
Website at http://chicanas.com (previously reviewed by SiteScene) and I'm
also on leave til May 99 from my job with Stanford's Learning Lab, working
on issues of integrating technology into humanities education.
Religious Studies, Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/~slg/sllindex.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~slg/main.html
Chris Hale
ChrisGHale@aol.com
I am currently an English literature graduate student at the University
of Central Florida in Orlando. My interests run the gamut from Medieval
literature and religious studies to 19th century American literature, and
I hope to focus my thesis on the sermon in America and its manifestation
in literature. I also have a neglected interest in aviation that I hope
to revive.
Dept. of English, University of Central Florida
Miriam Hardin
mih5@Lehigh.EDU
miriam.hardin@lycos.com
Main subject areas: American Studies; Gender, Sexuality,
and the Body; History and Historical Culture Studies; Literature and Text
Studies; Music and Performance; Popular Culture and Media Cultures; Visual
Culture
I'd be interested in sites dealing with Pynchon, Vonnegut, T.C. Boyle,
current drama, film, TV.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Jennifer Harrison
jh4@ix.netcom.com
I'm pursuing my graduate degree in history, specifically nineteenth-century
American social history. My interests also include Victorian literature,
women's history, the history of education, archaeology, etc. As for possible
sites to review, I believe the "Victorian Web" website has not yet been
reviewed, but I'm open to any of your suggestions.
History Department, North Carolina Wesleyan College
Kathleen Hunzer
K3hunzer@aol.com
Main subject areas: Popular and Media Culture
My main reviewing interest is Popular Culture and Film, especially
sites on television shows and history, anything about the 1980s, candy
and the Hershey empire, Children's Literature--any type and period, Disney--any
aspect, music from the 1950s through to today, talk shows, and commercials/advertisements.
I also have interests in Composition and Rhetoric, American Literature,
and Feminist studies, but in general I tend to review sites that peak my
interest and provide me with useful information for use in my classes and
my writing.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Elvira Jensen Casado
jencas@retemail.es
My main interest is theater, Afro-American theater as I have written
my Ph.D. on August Wilson but I am also interested in other minority literature.
Dept. of English, University of Salamanca, Spain
Maria Karafilis
mkarafi@calstatela.edu
19th-century American Lit, American women writers, representations
of citizenship and democratic
political participation.
Dept. of English, California State University, Los Angeles
Tamara Kendig
kendig_t@wvwc.edu
American Literature
Dept. of English, West Virginia Wesleyan University
Emma Lambert
LAMBEREL@hhs.bham.ac.uk
Main subject areas: History and Historical Cultural Studies;
Popular Culture and Media Cultures;
Race, Ethnicity and Identity; American Studies; Material Culture;
Visual Culture
I am currently completing my doctoral thesis on Time Inc. and the Cultutral
Cold War under Eisenhower, and am also a teaching assistant at the University
of Birminaghm, UK. My teaching areas are twentieth century American history,
and African American history since slavery. I am also a founding editor
of 49th Parallel, an interdisciplinary e-journal of North American Studies,
online at http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/49thparallel.
Teaching assistant at the University of Birmingham (England)
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/49thparallel
Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg
kmapelbl@tiger.fhsu.edu
I mainly study American women's Modernism, and specialize in American
lit from 1865 -1945, also the Harlem Renaissance and black women's lit
of that time. I'm especially interested in issues of the "occult" that
arose around the post-civil war, and post Great War eras that were experimented
with in the fictions of those times.
Fort Hays State University
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7327/modernism.html
Julie McGee
jmcgee@bowdoin.edu
I would be happy to review sites on African American art, I have also
been working recently with modern/contemporary arts from Africa. I too
teach a whole spectrum of courses, but in the interest of time and my own
expertise and interest, it is best for me to stick with the Black
diaspora arts.
Dept. of Art, Bowdoin College
Greg Moses
greg.moses@marist.edu
My main research interest is Martin Luther King, Jr., and the philosophy
of nonviolence. I teach Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy
of Education, Pragmatism, and Black Philosophy. I am interested in
cultural studies & am an organizer for service learning and prison
education.
Philosophy Dept., Marist College
http://members.tripod.com/~gmoses/
Samuel C. Pearson
pearsons@public1.ptt.js.cn
My field of specialization is the history of religion in America though
I have also taught all periods of Western religious history and some introductory
courses in Asian religions. I would be interested in sites related to these
and closely-related fields. Currently on Fulbright in China.
Fulbright Professor of American History
Nanjing University, PRC (2000-01) and
Professor Emeritus of Historical Studies
Dean Emeritus of School of Social Sciences
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
e-mail: pearsons@public1.ptt.js.cn or spearso@siue.edu
website http://www.siue.edu/~spearso
tel: 86-25-359-3111, ext. 3105
Ian Peddie
iped@mail.rochester.edu
My research is currently concerned with class expression in American
literature and culture in the twentieth century, especially during the
difficult years of the early cold war. Other interests include the
implications of social class as a lived phenomena, poverty, socialist movements,
modern Britain, and popular social protest music.
Dept. of English, University of Rochester
Geoff Pitcher
pitcher@club-internet.fr
While my main research and teaching interests lie in nineteenth century
American fiction, and increasingly in African American fiction, I wear
a variety of pedagogical hats including: intro to American civilization
(read history here), translation, and comprehension and expression.
Dept. of English, Université de Poitiers.
Kathy Purnell
kpurnell@albion.edu
My research interests are numerous and include : American Political
Thought, General Political Philosophy, the social construction of race,
gender, sexuality and national identities, the politics of equal recognition
in America (broadly conceived).
Ph.D. (Cornell University, 1999)
Political Science Department, Albion College
Melinda M. Schwenk
MSchwenk@asc.upenn.edu
My areas are film, propaganda, politics, race, magazines, visual media
of any sort.
Ph.D. Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication
Keiyana Scott
kss5@lehigh.edu
African American women writers.
Gregory Singleton
G-Singleton@neiu.edu
My area of greatest interest is the study of religion and American
culture broadly conceived.
Dept. of History, Northeastern Illinois University
http://www.neiu.edu/~ghsingle/
Kevin Smokler
smokler@email.com
Specialties are film, popular music, 20th century popular culture and
crime.
U Texas
Bruce Spear
civici01@zedat.fu-berlin.de
I'll be interested in doing some more reviewing in a few weeks. My
interests are in higher education, www sites with lots of content for the
study of American history, politics, and culture, and wwwsites useful for
educators. My www page outlines my interests.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mayer/!bruce.htm
Mary Strunk
stru0059@tc.umn.edu
My interests within American Studies include women's history, Depression
era history, 1930s gangsters and other American anti-heroes (from all periods),
the history of the FBI, film studies, and public memory(ies). Because
I'll be teaching a class called "Crimes of the Century" next year, I'd
be especially invested in evaluating sites devoted to celebrated criminal
cases of the 20th century. I'm also interested in web resources related
to writing-intensive courses, or to writing in general.
Graduate student, American Studies program, University of Minnesota
Peter W. Williams
williapw@muohio.edu
My interests are in Religion, esp. since Independence, and in architecture
and public art, 1870-1940.
Dept. of Religion, Miami University of Ohio
Robert A. Wilson
raw8@lehigh.edu
Main subject areas: History and Historical Culture Studies, Literature
and Text Studies, and Working Class and Labor Studies.
My past interests have been in Postmodern American literature, Film
Studies, and 19th century US History; while continuing to pay some attention
to these areas, my current commitments lean towards earlier American Literature.
I have also worked through Carnegie Technology Education as a Software
Systems Design 2 instuctor (Hardware, Software, Networking, and Troubleshooting).
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
John Woznicki
jwoznicki@mail.fscwv.edu
Main subject areas: Literature and Text Studies, Material
Culture, Music and Performance, Philosophy, Popular Culture and Media Cultures,
Science and Technology, Social Movements and Sociological Studies, Visual
Culture, Working Class and Labor Studies
My interests include American literature, film, political organizations,
technology, sports, poetry, music, and popular culture.
Dept. of English, Fairmont State College
Eric Yellin
esyellin@yahoo.com
Main subject areas: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity; Social Movements
and Sociological Studies; History and Historical Culture Studies
I recently graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in United
States History. My interests include
race, ethnicity, and African-American culture. I plan to pursue
a doctorate in history and American Studies,
with a focus on the development of American identity in the nineteenth
century.
Independent scholar
Michael Yellin
mjy2@lehigh.edu
I am a Lehigh graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature.
My interests include Jewish-American Literature, African-American Literature,
and Socialist Literature. I am particularly interested in studying
the ways in which Jewish literary critics have engaged African-American
texts.
Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Reviewers On Hold/Not Currently Active:
Dan Sack
SackD@CTSnet.edu
I am an historian of American religion, but with a decent background
in American history in general. I am currently working on a research project
on the role of material and materialism in American religion; as part of
that I administrate a web site (see below).
Material History of American Religion Project
P.O. Box 520, Decatur, Georgia 30031-0520
404/687-4633 sack@materialreligion.org
http://www.materialreligion.org