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Jeanette Keith

Jeanette Keith is the author of Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City.  Published by Bloomsbury USA, it was praised as “Fascinating—and potentially instructive—to today’s reader … an unqualified success” by the Boston Globe.

Originally trained as a journalist, Jeanette Keith obtained her PhD in history from Vanderbilt University in 1990 and is professor emerita of history at Bloomsburg University. Her article, “The Politics of Southern Draft Resistance, 1917-1918: Class, Race and Conscription in the Rural South,” won the Binkley-Stephenson Prize for best article published in the Journal of American History in 2001. Her book Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class and Power in the Rural South during the First World War was awarded the Willie Lee Rose Prize by the Southern Organization for Women Historians.

Among her other books are Country People in the New South, a textbook on southern history, and a co-authored textbook on Tennessee history. Her more recent research has focused on the South in World War I.

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Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.

He is the author of Digital Cosmopolitans, published by W. W. Norton.

With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, he is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces.

In 2000, Ethan Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web’s first “personal publishing” sites. He blogs at ethanzuckerman.com.

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Richard C. Francis

Richard C. Francis is a freelance science writer and the author of Epigenetics, published by W. W. Norton & Co. Writing in the New Republic, Judith Shulevitz said, ““Mesmerizing stuff…Richard Francis provides an excellent non-technical introduction to the scientific underpinnings of this discomfiting new genetics.” His most recent book, Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World, was also published by Norton.

His first  book, Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: Seductions of Sociobiology, was published by Princeton University Press in 2004. Library Journal wrote: “€œFreelance science writer Francis has written an incisive and witty critique of the methodologies of sociobiology and its most current manifestation, evolutionary psychology.”

Before becoming a freelance writer, Richard conducted widely-published postdoctoral research in evolutionary neurobiology and sexual development at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

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Patrick Carr

Patrick Carr is the Program Director of the Program in Criminal Justice, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is also an Associate Member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on the Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and his research interests include communities and crime, informal social control, youth violence, and transitions to adulthood.

He is the author, with Maria J. Kefalas, of Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America published by Beacon Press and Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order and Building Community Activism published by NYU Press). He has published in the American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Sociological Forum and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and other peer review outlets. He co-edited Coming of Age in America: the Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century, which was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Pat’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and on NPR and he has published opinion editorials in The Root, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic (online). He has delivered keynote addresses on rural brain drain and redevelopment all over the American Heartland, and he is frequently asked to speak to international audiences about police-community co-production of order.

 

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Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart writes frequently about history and the arts for Smithsonian Magazine, which has published more than 60 of his stories. The subjects he has written about range from Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I to the great Florida land boom of the 1920s and the jeep in World War II. Smithsonian assignments have taken him to Paris, Berlin, Venice, Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Honolulu. His stories have also appeared in Time, Geo, Muse, Discover, Reader’s Digest, and Connoisseur.

Doug is the author of The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare, published by Da Capo Press. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Jack Lynch wrote, “A witty and fast-moving story, by turns hilarious and pathetic. [Stewart] writes gracefully and vividly, and his book unfolds like a thriller.”

Doug wrote the text for Between Land and Sea: The Great Marsh, a collection of photographs by Dorothy Kerper Monnelly which was published by George Braziller in 2007, and which Publishers Weekly described as “a deeply felt tribute to the Great Marsh.” He also has worked as a book and magazine editor, a ghostwriter, and a writing teacher at Harvard.

 

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