CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Gabriela F. Arredondo earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. She is assistant professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses in Chicana/Mexicana histories, critical race and ethnicity theories, comparative Latina/o histories, and border studies. Her co-edited book, Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, is forthcoming in spring 2003 from Duke University Press. She is currently finishing a second book on the history of Mexican experiences of race, gender, and nation in Chicago from 1916 to 1939.

Virginia R. Boynton, guest editor for this issue, is an associate professor of history at Western Illinois University, where she teaches upper-division and graduate courses in women's history and twentieth-century United States history. She serves on Western's University Teacher Education Committee—the policy-setting body for Western's Teacher Education program, and on the Teacher Education Committee for the WIU College of Arts and Sciences. Her articles have appeared in Ohio History, Mid-America: An Historical Review, the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, and Chicago History, as well as in the forthcoming book, Builders of Ohio. Her current research focuses on Illinois women's volunteer activities during World War I.

Linda Clemmons received the Ph. D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and teaches American and Native American history at Illinois State University. She is the author of several articles on the interaction of the Dakotas and Protestant missionaries, and she is revising a book manuscript on the same subject.

Tonia Faloon teaches Illinois history, United States history, and world history at Williamsville High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Illinois State University and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Educational Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She recently assisted in teaching a course for the Abraham Lincoln and Leadership Summer Institute at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Lisa M. Fine teaches United States women's and labor history in the Department of History at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, where she is an associate professor of history and graduate chair. She earned her B.S. at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago 1870-1930 (Temple University Press, 1990) and is presently under contract with Temple University Press for her forthcoming book The Story of Reo Joe: Work Kin and Community in Autotown, USA, a book on the history of the Reo Car Company of Lansing, Michigan. Her articles on that subject have already appeared in Labor History and the Journal of Social History.

Rita Arias Jirasek, a lifelong member of the Chicago Latino community, has been working in schools since 1971. She is presently a counselor at Thornridge High School in Dolton. Arias Jirasek consults and teaches for the Mexican Fine Arts Center of Chicago. She co-authored the photographic history Mexican Chicago and curated the companion exhibit "Huellas Fotograficas" at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. She has presented numerous staff development sessions for the Chicago Public Schools and is a frequent conference presenter. She co-directs the Golden Apple Summer Story Telling Workshop where teacher participants learn to use storytelling to meet state goals in multiple disciplines. She has worked on many interdisciplinary projects dealing with all aspects of Mexican art, culture, and history. She holds a bachelor's degree in the teaching of Spanish from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M. S. Ed. in urban education from Chicago State University. She has also studied at the Universidad de Artes Plasticas in Guadalajara, Northwestern University, and Purdue University Calumet.

Anne Meis Knupfer is associate professor of educational history at Purdue University. She is the author of Toward A Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood. African American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (New York University Press, 1996), and Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court (Routledge, 2001). She is working on a book about the activism of African-American women in Chicago from 1930 to 1960.

Elizabeth H. Miller taught twentieth-century world history and post-Civil War American history to eighth graders at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, where she chaired the history department for two years. Recently retired, she continues to co-teach a modern economics elective there. She received a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in Chinese history at Northwestern University. Living in Chicago, Elizabeth enjoys exploring the city's neighborhoods and history and taking advantage of its cultural richness.

Delores F. Rauscher has more than thirteen years experience teaching high school and college history and English. She taught social studies methods and coordinated student teachers for Eastern Illinois University for six years. She occasionally teaches English and rates speak tapes (English language rating tapes) for the English Language Center at Michigan State University. She also edits and writes articles on Illinois and Michigan history.