Authors
Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, is the deputy editorial pages editor of The Providence Journal. He has won numerous writing awards and his work appears in Best Newspaper Writing, 2007-2008. His weekly columns inspired revolutionary change in the Rhode Island Constitution, as he championed an amendment that put an end to a 340-year legacy of inordinate power by the legislature. Pulitzer judges cited his “clear, tenacious call to action against government corruption in Rhode Island,” while...
Born in Redwood City, California, Fred Adams received his undergraduate training in Mathematics and Physics from Iowa State University and his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is professor of physics at the University of Michigan.
In 1991, he received the Robert J. Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his PhD dissertation. He is also the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society and...
Gretchen Adams’s particular interests are in the intellectual and cultural processes involved in American nation building, particularly the development and role of a distinctive set of American cultural myths and memories. Professor Adams received her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 2001 following undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Oregon. She is currently assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University where she teaches courses in topics in nineteenth-century U.S. history and in the field of...
Jonathan S. Adams is a conservation biologist, writer, and a program director of the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Knowledge and Communities Program. His most recent book is The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World. He also is coauthor of The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion and coeditor of Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States. He lives with his wife and two children in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.
Fred Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971and his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard in 1973 and 1981. He taught at Harvard as a Lecturer on History and Literature from 1981 to 1983; since then he has been a member of the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently professor of history. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center at...
Virginia DeJohn Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her area of specialization is the history of Colonial and Revolutionary America. Her latest book, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America combines ethnohistorical and environmental history approaches to examine the impact of imported livestock on Anglo-Indian relations in the North American colonies. She is also co-author of a U.S. history textbook, The American Journey: A History of the United States, published by Prentice...
Chris Myers Asch graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 1994 and immediately joined Teach for America, a national program that recruits college graduates and places them in school districts that are chronically short of teachers. He was sent to Sunflower, Mississippi, where he taught elementary school for three years.
After a year with the Fulbright program in South Korea, Chris Myers Asch entered graduate school at the University of North Carolina, earning a doctorate in American History in...
Stephen V. Ash, professor of history at the University of Tennessee, earned his B.A. at Gettysburg College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. His writing and teaching focus on the U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction and on Tennessee history, in particular the social impact of war.
He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of eight books and numerous essays. His first book, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in...
Susan R. Barry is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College where she has taught since 1992. She received her Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University in 1981 and has authored more than twenty scientific papers on the study of nerve cells, neuronal plasticity and eye-head-hand coordination.
Dubbed “Stereo Sue” by neurologist Oliver Sacks in a New Yorker article by that name, Sue Barry has gone on to write her own...
Journalist Trudy E. Bell has sustained a strong dual interest in astronomy and exploration/adventure travel since the mid-1960s. Her bachelor’s degree is in the history of science with a physics minor, and her master’s is in American intellectual history. For three years as an undergraduate at UCSC, she worked for the Lick Observatory, including one summer (1970) as a tour guide on Mount Hamilton itself.
As an editor for Scientific American magazine and senior editor for IEEE Spectrum, she edited or...
