About the Contributors
QUAYLAN ALLEN is an associate professor in the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. His research addresses educational equity by critically examining the implications of social and educational policy and practice on culturally diverse populations. In particular, his research focuses on black male educational success, black masculinities in school, and participant visual methodologies with youth populations.
MELANIE ARMSTRONG is a faculty member in the Master of Environmental Management Program at Western Colorado University. Her research on biopolitics and the historical formations of nature explores how nature coalesces with fear to transform social relations. Her 2017 book, Germ Wars: The Politics of Nature and America’s Landscape of Fear, examines the politics enabled by the belief that nature—in this case, microbes—can be managed through cultural practices. By studying how people incorporate knowledge of nature into their daily lives, she aims to show how securing the nation against disease binds citizenship and governance to new scientific knowledge of germs, body, and risk. She also coauthored Environmental Realism: Challenging Solutions, arguing for new approaches in the language and practice of environmental management, work that emerged from her fifteen-year career with the National Park Service.
TRAVIS D. BOYCE is an associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Northern Colorado. His research interests are in contemporary African American history and popular culture (the intersection of race, fashion, and social media in the sporting world). He is guest editing special issues (Fashion, Style, Aesthetics, and Black Lives Matter) of the Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture Journal as well as the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (Race and Whiteness Studies). He is also completing his second book that will probe hash tags, memes, images, and commentary on social media related to the fashion of activist athletes with the context of history and contemporary life.
WINSOME M. CHUNNU is the director of Multicultural Programs at Ohio University. She holds a PhD in cultural studies from Ohio University. Her areas of expertise are educational policy, policy implementation, race and politics, and popular culture. She is guest editing a special issue (Fashion, Style, Aesthetics, and Black Lives Matter) of the Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture Journal and working on a book on educational policy implantation in Jamaica.
BRECHT DE SMET is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. He teaches Politics of Development and Contemporary Politics of the Middle East. His research interests entail Gramscian theory, the dynamics of class struggle, the history of socialism, and Middle East politics. De Smet is the author of two monographs: “Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Revolution” (2015, Brill; 2016, Haymarket) and “Gramsci on Tahrir” (2016, Pluto Press) and is preparing a book on the socialism of Henri De Man.
KIRSTEN DYCK is the author of Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music (Rutgers University Press, 2017). She holds a PhD in American Studies from Washington State University and has had fellowships with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German-American Fulbright Commission, and the Auschwitz Jewish Center. She taught for James Madison University from 2012–2017 and has recently completed a 2017–2019 US Peace Corps term teaching English at Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University in Poltava, Ukraine.
ADAM C. FONG is a tenured professor of history at Merced College. He has previously taught at the University of Northern Colorado and holds a doctorate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His primary field of research is Tang dynasty China. He focuses mainly on issues such as urbanization, maritime trade, local identity, and cross-cultural interactions in southern China. He is also very interested in the links between East and Southeast Asia and tracing connections—for example, by researching immigrant networks—between regional histories and world history.
JEFFREY A. JOHNSON is a professor of history and director of the Graduate Program at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches courses on the Gilded Age /Progressive Era, labor history, and the American West. He is the author of They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895–1925 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), the edited collection Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era (ABC-Clio, 2017), and The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchists and Terrorism in Progressive Era America (Routledge, 2018).
ŁUKASZ KAMIEŃSKI is a university professor on the Faculty of International and Political Studies of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His work concentrates on military technology and military transformation, the history and future of war and the military profession, and strategic issues of international relations. He has published three books in Polish. His recent study is Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2016) also published in French, Italian, and Spanish. He is currently working on the project on neuroscience and neuroengineering and war.
GUY LANCASTER is the editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, a project of the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas Clinton School for Public Service and an occasional contributor to the Arkansas Times. He is the author of Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality (2014), co-editor of To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War (2015), and editor of Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840–1950 (2018) and The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, 1819–1919 (2018). His books have received awards from the Arkansas Historical Association and the Booker Worthen Literary Prize.
HENRY SANTOS METCALF holds a PhD in Education with an emphasis in Cross-Cultural Studies from Chapman University in Orange, California, where he also serves as a faculty member in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences teaching LGBTQ Studies. In addition, he is an administrator for the Office of Accessible Education and Counseling Services at Brandman University, a member of the Chapman University System, where he supports non-traditional students, adult learners, and a large student-veteran and military population. He is a board member for the World Rehabilitation and Disability Conference (WRDC), where he has presented at their events held at various international locations and serves as the editor and scholarly resource consultant for The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) organization. His recent research interests have focused on student-veterans navigating higher education, diversity and inclusion efforts, and queer discourse.
JULIE M. POWELL is a PhD candidate in History at The Ohio State University and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow. She is the author of “Shock Troupe: Medical Film and the Performance of ‘Shell Shock’ for the British Nation at War” (Social History of Medicine, 2017) and “About-Face: Gender, Disfigurement and the Politics of French Reconstruction, 1918–1924” (Gender & History, 2016). She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including funds from the Centre International de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre, the American Historical Association, The New York Academy of Medicine, and the Social Sciences Research Council.
JELLE VERSIEREN is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp. Affiliated with the Centre for Urban History, he examines labor concepts and the discourses of labor value in the Low Countries’ economic transition to capitalism. He is a consulting editor for History of Intellectual Culture (University of Calgary) and a guest lecturer at Ghent University (on the histories and epistemologies of economic thought). He has recently published essays on Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Adam Smith, Rosa Luxemburg, Thomas Sekine, GWF Hegel, French structuralism, the history of the Belgian labor movement, and state formations and economic transitions in early modern western Europe.