The Enduring Vision

Author Biographies

Paul S. Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He received the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association for Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974), which he co-authored with Stephen Nissenbaum. His articles and essays have appeared in such publications as the American Quarterly and New Republic. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Society of American Historians, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Clifford E. Clark, Jr., M.A. & A. D. Hulings Professor of American Studies and professor of history at Carleton College, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America (1978), The American Family Home, 1800-1960 (1986), The Intellectual and Cultural History of Anglo-America Since 1789, in the General History of the Americas and, with Carol Zellie, Northfield: The History and Architecture of a Community (1997). He is active in the fields of material culture studies and historic preservation, and currently serves on the Northfield, Minnesota, Historical Preservation Commission.

Sandra McNair Hawley received her A.B. and M.A. from the College of William and Mary and her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She has co-authored the book Global Politics with Dean A. Minix and written numerous papers on United States/Chinese relations with a focus on popular culture portraits of Asia and their implications. She currently teaches at San Jacinto College and is working on a new book on the history of Texas.

Joseph F. Kett, Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of The Formation of the American Medical Profession: The Role of Institutions, 1780-1860 (1968), Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790-Present (1977), and The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988), of which he is the co-author. A former History Department chair at Virginia, he has also participated on the Panel on Youth of the President's Science Advisory Committee, served on the Board of Editors for the History of Education Quarterly, and is a past member of the Council of the American Studies Association.

Neal Salisbury, Professor of History at Smith College, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982) and editor of The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, by Mary Rowlandson. He has been awarded fellowships by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the National Humanities Center, and the American Antiquarian Society. He has served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and co-edits the book series, "Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History."

Harvard Sitkoff, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He is the author of A New Deal for Blacks (1978) and The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992 (1981, 1992), and the editor of Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated (1985). A contributor to numerous edited collections, he has also published articles in such journals as American Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, and Wilson Quarterly.

Nancy Woloch received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She is the author of Women and the American Experience (1984, 1994, 1996, 2000), editor of Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900 (1992, 1997), and co-author, with Walter LaFeber and Richard Polenberg, of The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s (1986, 1992, 1998). She teaches American history and American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.



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