THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY

Ron Bodinson was born in Kansas in 1945 and reared in Kansas City, Missouri where he attended public schools. He obtained a B.A. in History from Williams College in 1967, served in the Peace Corps in Chile 1967-69, and graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1973. After practicing law for 39 years in the Kansas City area, he retired to Madison, CT in 2012. He recently published “How a ‘Murder’ Case and an Act of Revenge Changed the Course of Political History in Mid-Century Kansas,” KS Bar Journal 92, no. 6 (November/December 2023).

Erik J. Chaput holds a doctorate in early American history from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His 2013 book, The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and the 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (University Press of Kansas) will be coming out in paperback later this year. Chaput is the co-editor with Russell DeSimone of several letter collections on the Dorr Rebellion Project (website: http://library.providence.edu/dorr). He teaches American History at Western Reserve Academy in Ohio and online in the School of Continuing Education at Providence College.

Jeannette W. Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas. She has a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Culture from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in political science from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University. Her research on Margaret Chase Smith has appeared in Maine History, the Washington Post and Women in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Women as Voters, Candidates, and Officeholders. She is also a podcaster on the Women’s History channel of the New Books Network. During the 2016-2017 academic year, she was a Fulbright lecturer at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, where she lectured extensively in both China and Mongolia on American culture and politics as well as the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Russell J. DeSimone is an independent scholar. He is co-author of Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion (1992), author of The Dorr Rebellion Chronicled in Ballads and Poetry (1993), A Survey of Nineteenth Century Rhode Island Billheads (2002), Rhode Island’s Rebellion (2009), co-author of Remarkable Women of Rhode Island(2014) and author of Rhode Island Election Tickets – A Survey of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paper Ballots (2023). He is editor of Mister Providence College – The Selected Writings of Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P. (2019) and “Fighting Bob” Quinn – Political Reformer and the People’s Advocate (2020). He has also written numerous articles on Rhode Island history.

DeSimone currently is co-historian-in-residence for the Dorr Rebellion Project (website: http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/index.html) sponsored by Providence College.

Zeke Haradji earned his B.A. and M.A.T. at Rivier University. His post-secondary education emphasized research on nationalism, including the problematization of different concepts of nationalism during the Napoleonic Wars, the formation of Ukrainian nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the transformation of Massachusetts immigration law as a product of racial, religious, and ableist norms. This research culminated in a master’s thesis titled “Unofficial Influence: Ambassador Dodd and American Foreign Policy Towards the Germans Jews, 1933–1937.” Zeke is now a social studies teacher and a Zoning Board of Appeals member in Dracut, Massachusetts.

Joseph Harrington received his BS in History and Education in 1960 from Boston College,  his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1971, and retired as Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University in 2014. Over the past 47 years, he has taught courses involving American foreign policy, has published seven books and 45 articles in national and foreign journals, and has presented more than 50 papers at historical conferences and at the State Department. Foreign Affairs journal described his work Tweaking the Nose of the Russians: Fifty Years of American-Romanian Relations, 1940-1990 (1991) as the “sole substantial scholarly work on America’s relations with Romania and it is not likely to be displaced.” The 591 page work was translated into Romanian by the Institutul European.  He followed up the work with a volume on American-Romanian Relations, 1989-2004: From Pariah to Partner (2004). His most recent publications include a two volume work Conflicted Giant, American Foreign Policy, 1945-2012, published in 2013, followed in 2015 by From Enemy to Ally, Sino-American Relations, 1952-1979.” Joe also writes a blog on American foreign policy. Joe has two children, four grandchildren, and his roommate, Katie, a Golden Retriever. jfharrington76@gmail.com

Kelly Marino is a Lecturer in the History Department of the College of Arts and Sciences at Sacred Heart University and Program Director of Women's Studies. She received her Ph.D. in History from Binghamton University (SUNY) and M.A. in History from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Marino is a Connecticut native. She is passionate about state and local history as well as women’s history and the history of sexuality. Her research focuses on social and political movements, twentieth-century American history, and Gilded Age/Progressive Era America. She writes about reform, minority struggles and activism, and is especially interested in issues of age, education, gender, and sexuality. Her book Votes for College Women (NYU Press 2024) focuses on the woman suffrage campaign on college and university campuses at the turn of the twentieth century.

Ava Martin graduated in 2023 from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in history and anthropology. She is passionate about the relevance of history – to identity, social change, and sustainability. Over the past few years, she has focused on buildings and historic preservation, including academic research and hands-on preservation maintenance. Most recently, she interned with American Conservation Experience on the Yosemite National Park Historic Preservation crew.

Edward Tabor is a physician and medical researcher who has worked at the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), the Food and Drug Administration, and Fresenius Kabi. He is the author of Infectious Complications of Blood Transfusion; and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for US Drug Development; and an editor of Etiology, Pathology, and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in North America; Hepatitis C Virus and its Involvement in the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Liver Cancer; Viruses and Liver Cancer; and Emerging Viruses in Human Populations. He lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC.

Tyler Wolanin is a researcher at the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. He received a B.A. in political science from The George Washington University and a Master of Public Policy and Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy. He has worked at the Congressional Research Service, the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, and the Massachusetts Senate. His first book, The Political Life of Reverend Roland D. Sawyer, was published by Lexington Books in 2024. He is from Barre, Massachusetts.