Emiliano Aguilar is a political and labor historian of the United States at the University of Notre Dame. His manuscript-in-progress, Building a Latino Machine, explores how the ethnic Mexican and Puerto Rican community of East Chicago, Indiana, navigated machine politics to further their inclusion in municipal and union politics.Arwa Almasaari is a scholar of Arab American studies whose work explores autobiographical writing, identity, and the intersections of race, gender, and memory. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MA from California State University, both in English with a focus on Arab American studies.Brandi C. Brimmer is the Morehead-Cain Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and the author of Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South (Duke University Press).Lauren Coodley is a retired professor of History at Napa Community College. Her recent books include Lost Napa Valley (Arcadia Publishing, 2021) and Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). She authored three other histories of Napa and a collection of Upton Sinclair's writing about California.Colin Crawford is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he is writing a dissertation on US Catholic representations of India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He holds degrees from Holy Cross College and Marquette University.Massimiliano G. Del Gaudio is a PhD candidate at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, Italy, and a 2026 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research focuses on Italian American history, Italian migrations, postwar Italy–US relations, and transnational political, economic, and cultural exchanges between Italy and the Italian diasporas.Maria Angela Diaz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her book, A Continuous State of War: Empire-Building and Race-Making in the Civil War Era Gulf South, was published with the University of Georgia Press.Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan is Associate Director of the Center for Irish Research and Teaching at Georgia Southern University. She is the co-author, with Susan L. Porter and Lisa Fagin Davis, of Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston (Brandeis University Press, 2009). Her research explores regional and comparative dimensions of ethnic identity.Vanessa Guzman is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies department at Sacramento State. She received her PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.The late Wolfgang Helbich, a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for German American Studies in 2017, was Professor Emeritus at Ruhr University Bochum until his death in November 2021. Collaborating with Walter Kamphoefner over four decades produced a collection of immigrant letters now numbering some twelve thousand: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungsbibliothek-gotha/sammlungen/handschriften-und-nachlaesse/auswandererbriefe.Daniel B. Jin is a PhD candidate in American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His dissertation traces the rise of “meds and eds” in Boston since the 1960s, exploring the significance of universities in histories of urban development, public policy, labor, migration, and social movements.Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Sam Houston State University. He is the author or editor of six books, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History.Walter D. Kamphoefner has taught at Texas A&M University since 1988 and has written widely on immigration and ethnicity. His latest book, Germans in America: A Concise History (2021), surveys the sweep of the ethnic experience over three centuries. With Wolfgang Helbich he co-edited an anthology, News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home (1991).Samuel J. Klee is a senior historian with SNA International, where he researches American service members who went missing in China during World War II. His interests include environmental, religious, ethnic, and military histories of the twentieth century. He earned his PhD in American Studies from the University of Oslo.Carolyn E. Lau is a PhD student in the Department of American Studies at Brown University. Her research explores Asian American communities, casinos, and urban politics in the Northeast.Andrae Marak is a borderlands scholar and Professor of History and Political Science at Roosevelt University. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four books and over twenty articles and chapters covering a wide range of borderlands issues with a special focus on Indigenous peoples.Carolina Muñoz is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. Her research interests lie at the intersections of Latinx Studies, Gothic Studies, and Hemispheric Studies, with a focus on how Latinx Gothic literature articulates coloniality, race, gender, and nationhood.Ethan Trejo is a PhD candidate in the Departments of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. His teaching and scholarship are situated in the fields of Queer Studies and Latinx Studies, and his dissertation examines the aesthetics and performance practices of Latinx drag artists.
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