DENNIS, Matthew. Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D., 1986, University of California), specializes in the history of colonial America and the Early Republic , United States political culture, American environmental history, and the history of memory and commemoration. Author of Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (1993), Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar (2002), and Seneca Possessed: Colonialism, Gender, and Witchcraft in the Early American Republic (forthcoming 2009). He is the editor of Holidays and Celebrations: A Country-by-Country Guide , 3 vols. (2006), and co-editor, Riot and Revelry in Early America (2002). His current research focuses on the history and politics of death, memory, and mortal remains in America ; he has published “Patrioitc Remains: Nationalism and Bones of Contention in the Early Republic ,” Mortal Remains: Death in Early America, eds. Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein (2003) and is working on book, Bones: A Cultural and Political History of Mortal Remains in America . mjdennis@uoregon.edu .

HERMAN, Ellen. Associate professor (Ph.D., 1993, Brandeis), specializes in 20th-century United States , cultural/intellectual. Author of The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts (1995). Recent publications include "Psychologism" in The Cambridge History of Science (forthcoming); "Mental and Intelligence Testing" in Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001); "The Difference Difference Makes: Justine Wise Polier and Religious Matching in Twentieth-Century Child Adoption," Religion and American Culture (2000); "Child Adoption in a Therapeutic Culture" Society (Jan.-Feb. 2002); and "The Paradoxical Rationalization of Modern Adoption," Journal of Social History (Winter, 2002). Research interests include social science and social engineering, therapeutic culture, sexuality, and child welfare. Professor Herman was awarded a major research grant from the National Science Foundation, Program in Science and Technology Studies, 2001-2003 and is the author of a new web site, The Adoption History Project. eherman@uoregon.edu .

MADDEX, Jack. Professor (Ph.D., 1966, U North Carolina--Chapel Hill), specializes in the history of the United States in 19th century, U.S. South, and U.S. religion. Author of Virginia Conservatives , 1867-79, Reconstruction of Edward A. Pollard , and articles drawn from his current research on the Presbyterian church and social order in the South, 1830s-80s. jmaddex@uoregon.edu .

MAY, Glenn. Professor (Ph.D., 1975, Yale), teaches primarily about modern Southeast Asia and U.S.-Asian relations. His research focuses on the history of the Philippines , with research interests in social history, historical demography, popular uprisings, health/ill health, indigenous crafts (especially basketry), foreign relations, and historiography. His current project is the evolution of Philippine basketry, 1550-present. Author of Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution, and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900-1913 (1980); A Past Recovered: Essays on Philippine History and Historiography (1987); Battle for Batangas: A Philippine Province at War (1991); Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio (1996); and Sa Akala Ko: Further Essays on Philippine History and Historiography (forthcoming). Senior fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (Amsterdam and Leiden, 1997 and 2004). gmay@uoregon.edu

MOHR, James C. College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor (Ph.D., 1969, Stanford), specializes in the 19th-century United States , especially 19th-century politics and social policy; medicine, public health, and reproductive rights; legal history; history of the professions. He is the author of Radical Republicans and Reform during Reconstruction (1972), Abortion in America : The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900 (1978), The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War (1982), Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America (1993), and Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (2005). He is the editor of Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics during Reconstruction (1976), Chapters of Erie (2002), and New Perspectives on Public Health Policy (2007). .Recent articles include "The Paradoxical Advance and Embattled Retreat of the 'Unsound Mind': Evidence of Insanity and the Adjudication of Wills in Nineteenth-Century America," Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques (1998), and "American Medical Malpractice Litigation in Historical Perspective," JAMA (2000). jmohr@uoregon.edu .

OSTLER, Jeffrey. Professor (Ph.D., 1990, Iowa), specializes in the history of the American West. Author of Prairie Populism: the Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas , Nebraska , and Iowa (1993), “Empire of Liberty : Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History,” in the Blackwell Companion to the American West (2004), and The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2004). He is currently completing a book on the Lakotas and the Black Hills to be published in the Penguin Library of the American Indian History. jostler@uoregon.edu .

PASCOE, Peggy. Associate professor and Beekman Chair of Northwest and Pacific History (Ph.D., 1986, Stanford)-Gender, Race, and Sexuality; 20th-Century U.S. West. Publications include Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West , 1874-1939 (1990); "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' In Twentieth-Century America." Journal of American History (1996); and "Democracy, Citizenship, and Race: The U.S. West in the 20th Century," in Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Perspectives on Modern America : Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (2000). Current research is on the history of miscegenation law in the U.S. , 1860 to the present. ppascoe@uoregon.edu .

POPE, Daniel. Associate professor (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1973), specializes in American business and economic history, movements of protest and dissent in late 19th- and 20th-century America , and the history of advertising, marketing, and consumption. Author of Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (forthcoming in 2008) and The Making of Modern Advertising (1983); as well as articles on advertising, marketing and consumer culture, and on nuclear power and energy politics. He is the editor of American Radicalism (2001). His research is currently focused on the leading advocates of nuclear power in post-World War II America and on the memoirs of James Rorty, a critic of consumer culture and muckraking journalist. dapope@uoregon.edu .

SUMMERS, Martin. Associate professor (Ph.D., 1997, Rutgers), specializes in 20th-century United States , African American. Author of Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 (2004). Research interests include black nationalism, African American intellectual history, and the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality