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Daniel Vickers

Daniel Vickers is professor of history at the University of British Colulmbia. Born in Canada, he studied history as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto then took his doctorate from Princeton University in 1981. He has since taught at the College of William and Mary, the University of Wyoming, Harvard University, the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of California, San Diego.

His most recent book, Young Men and the Sea forms the culmination of several decades spent studying the maritime history of New England in all of its many different aspects. As a project it arose from the experience of living for fifteen years in Newfoundland—during the 1980s and 1990s a deeply maritime society. At Memorial University, he served as Chair of the Maritime Studies Research Unit, where the sorts of issues raised in Young Men and the Sea were daily fare.

He has written numerous articles on whaling, merchant seafaring, fresh and saltwater fishing, most of which focus on the character of maritime society and the social history of the early modern communities that followed the sea. His first book, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850, published by the Institute of Early American History and Culture in 1994, won both the Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association and the Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. In his capacity as a early Americanist, he is also the editor of A Companion to Colonial America, in press with Blackwell Publishing.

Paul Osterman

Paul Osterman is Deputy Dean at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He is also the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning.

His research concerns changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs.

Professor Osterman has been a senior administrator of job training programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has consulted widely to government agencies, foundations, community groups, firms, and public interest organizations.

His most recent book is Gathering Power: The Future of Progressive Politics in America (Beacon Press, 2003). Other recent books include Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Working In America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market (MIT Press, 2001).

Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Yale University. He specializes in medieval social history, the history of Spain, and comparative studies of the peasantry.

Paul Freedman taught for eighteen years at Vanderbilt University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997. At Vanderbilt, he was awarded the Nordhaus Teaching Prize in 1989 and was the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Fellow there in 1991-1992. During that time he published his second book, Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia.

He won the American Historical Association’s Premio del Rey Prize (a biennial book award in early Spanish history) in 1992 and shared the Medieval Academy of America’s Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize in 1981. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994, Paul has also been awarded a Griswold Fellowship and a Senior Faculty Fellowship from Yale and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2002-2003 he was a fellow of the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers.

A fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he is also a corresponding fellow of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. His book, Out of the East, about the lure of spices in medieval Europe, was published by Yale University Press.

Jean Egmon

Jean Egmon is Clinical Prof of Management; Director Collaborative Practices, at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the president of Third Angle, Inc. Jean’s teaching and consulting focuses on the design and leadership of environments for innovation, with a focus on strategic integration of knowledge and ideas across a company’s value network.

She is the co-author, with Bill Welter, of The Prepared Mind of a Leader, published by Jossey Bass. Jean’s research includes the use of adaptive leadership and cognitive strategies in turnaround companies and more recently the use of those strategies for innovation. She uses an interdisciplinary approach in understanding strategies of knowledge brokering, leadership, motivation, macro-cognition and complexity.

At Third Angle, Inc., Jean and her colleagues work with technical and business leaders to help them and their organizations to reframe their relationships, work practices and strategies in order to encourage innovation, increase engagement of stakeholders and integrate initiatives. Third Angle’s clients include Accenture, American College of Chest Physicians, Bank of America, Boeing, Equity Office Properties, General Electric and United Airlines.

Andrew Cayton

Andrew Cayton held the Warner Woodring Chair in the department of history at the Ohio State University. Previously, he had been University Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, where he taught for twenty five years.

Born in Cincinnati in 1954, Drew earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia before receiving his PhD from Brown University, where he studied under Gordon Wood. He contributed to the profession in numerous ways, including serving as President of SHEAR in 2011-12 and the Ohio Academy of History in 2015. A frontier history pioneer, his most recent work was Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818, published by the Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press in 2013.

Together with Fred Anderson, Drew was the author of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000, published by Viking. Dominion of War was a History Book Club Selection; named a Washington Post Best Book of 2005 and a 2005 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. His other books include Love in the Time of Revolution, published by UNC Press and Ohio: The History of a People; Frontier Indiana; and Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825, which was published by Ohio State University Press. He was co-editor, with Fredrika J. Teute of Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi; with Susan Gray of The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History; and with Stuart Hobbs, The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic.

His essays and reviews appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post Sunday Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and The Great Plains Quarterly.

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