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).

Joseph Carvalho III, M.A., M.L.S.,  C.G.R.S., and Certified Archivist, born Aug. 28, 1953 In Kinston, North Carolina. Graduate of Westfield State University ( B.A. 1975); College of William & Mary (M.A. 1977); University of Rhode Island (M.L.S., 1984). He is currently the Co-Editor of the (Springfield) Republican newspaper's Ethnic Heritage Book Series, and retired President and Executive Director (1994–2010) of the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts. Author of Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts: 1650-1865 published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 2011. He served as Associate Editor of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts (1978–2003), and as the Book Review Editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (1987–1996). In 1996, Joe received the National Award for Advancing Genealogical Research Publications from the National Genealogical Society. He is the author of numerous articles in historical and genealogical journals, and he co-edited reference works such as The Guide to the History of Massachusetts (1988), Dictionary of American Medical Biography (1985), and Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays (1990).

William Dorsey is a 2024 graduate of Dean College, with a bachelor’s degree in history. He interned with the New England Journal of History from January to May 2023, and worked as a peer tutor for history during the spring and fall semesters of 2023. He co-produced two short documentaries, Horace Mann: A Political Career and Italian Anarchists and the Ray Mill Bombing. He is interested in political history, and his senior thesis "The Glorious Revolution of 1688: English Politics and Dutch Ambitions" examines the geopolitical background to the Glorious Revolution and the competing goals of William of Orange and the English political class during and after 1688.

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.

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.