Illinois History Teacher, Volume 9:2

CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Brian Booth teaches seventh grade social studies at Tefft Middle School in Streamwood, Illinois. He holds a B.S. in political science from Illinois State University, a B. A. in history and secondary education from Northern Illinois University, and an M. A. T. from Aurora University. In addition to teaching K-12, he has instructed college level business technology courses, technology integration courses for educators, and web development seminars for the National Education Association. His primary historical interests are labor and social history.

Lisa Bopp teaches American history at East Richland High School in Olney, Illinois, and has taught part-time for Kaskaskia College, Lakeland College, and Olney Central College. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from St. Louis Christian College and an M. B. A. from Webster University in St. Louis. Her research interests include oral histories, and she is working on developing a districtwide twentieth century oral history project. She also serves as trip coordinator for Washington, D.C., and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, student trips.

David Denton received his M.A. in American history from Eastern Illinois University and is a social science instructor at Olney Central College in Olney, Illinois, where he has taught since 1990. He currently offers, among others, a course on the history of Vietnam. In 1996 he co-produced a broadcast quality documentary funded by the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) entitled Victory on the Homefront: World War II in Lawrence and Richland Counties. In 1998 he completed a second IHC-funded project entitled The Vietnam War Twenty Five Years Later, which involved compiling a collection of 125 oral history interviews with Vietnam veterans from around the country. From 1996 through 2000 he was a speaker in a Road Scholar program, also funded by the IHC, and gave presentations on The Vietnam War Twenty Years Five Years Later and Lee Harvey Oswald: America's Most Mysterious Figure.

Perry R. Duis holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught urban and Chicago history at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1971. His fourth book about the city is Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (1999).

Bruce E. Field, Guest Editor of this volume, is executive director of School-University Partnerships and Clinical Experiences in the University of South Carolina's College of Education. He taught high school history for eleven years before earning the Ph.D. in twentieth century U.S. history from the College of William and Mary. From 1993 through 2001 he coordinated the history and social science secondary teacher certification programs at Northern Illinois University and taught courses at NIU on the Vietnam War, U.S. foreign relations, and secondary school teaching methods. He is the author of Harvest of Dissent: The National Farmers Union and the Early Cold War.

Steve Rosswurm, who received his Ph.D. at Northern Illinois University, teaches U.S. and Mexican history at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the American Revolution (Rutgers University Press, 1987) and the editor of The ClO's Left-Led Unions (Rutgers University Press, 1992). He has two book-length projects underway. One looks at the connections between the FBI and the Catholic Church from 1935 to 1962. The other examines involvement of Catholics and the Catholic Church in the Congress of Industrial Oganizations.

Erika Schlichter teaches American history, Hispanic history, and African American history at East Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois. She earned a B.A. in history and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. in education from Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include twentieth-century African American history and women's history.

James D. Schmidt is associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. He is the author of Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880, and is currently working on a book entitled Working Waifs: Children, Labor, and the State, 1790-1940. He has also been active in the anti-globalization and peace movements.

Pierre Thorsen is a history teacher at Harry D. Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois. He earned the B. A. in history from Northern Illinois University in 1994 and is about to complete work on his M. A. in American history. He has taught world history for the past six years with a special emphasis on religious studies.

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