HENRY BINFORD

(Ph.D. Harvard, 1973) is an urban historian specializing in the nineteenth century evolution of sub-communities within cities, including suburbs and slums. He is also interested in efforts to redevelop cities in the twentieth century. His publications include The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860. He has received research support from the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Newberry Library. He was the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence for three years.

MARTHA BIONDI

(Ph.D. Columbia University, 1997) is a member of the Department of African American Studies with a courtesy joint appointment in the History Department. She specializes in 20th century African American history, with a focus on social movements, politics, ideology and protest. Her book To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City was published in 2003 by Harvard University Press. She is currently writing a book on the struggle for Black Studies on American campuses from 1967 to 1977, highlighting the role of both student and scholar activists.

SHERWIN BRYANT

(Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2005) is a member of the Department of African American Studies with a courtesy joint appointment in the Department of History here at Northwestern University. He specializes in colonial Latin American history, with a particular emphasis upon comparative slavery and the African experience in Latin America. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including: a Fulbright Fellowship (IIE) for pre-dissertation research in Ecuador, a Ford minority Dissertation Fellowship, the Kenyon College Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship, and the Erskine A. Peter’s Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of: “Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito,” Colonial Latin American Review 13:1 (June 2004): 7-46. His dissertation, “Slavery and the Context of Ethnogenesis: Africans, Afro-Creoles and the Realities of Bondage in the Kingdom of Quito, 1600-1800,” looked comparatively at slave experiences in two of Quito’s three principal slaveholding regions—Popayán and Quito, while exploring Quito’s unique context for African and Afro-Creole identity formation. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication.

DARLENE CLARK HINE

(Ph.D. Kent State, 1974) served as John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University (1987-2004). Hine currently serves as a Board of Trustee Professor at Northwestern University

Hine is co-editor, with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack The Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001). She is co-author, with Stanley Harrold and William Hine, of an African-American history textbook, The African-American Odyssey, Volumes I & II (2000), second edition of Volumes I & II (2002),third edition of Volumes I & II (2006); co-author with Kathleen Thompson, of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (1998). She is co-editor, with Earnestine Jenkins, of A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, Volume I (1999) Volume II (2001); and, with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (1999). She is author of Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (1994); Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (1989); and Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979). She has recently published a new edition of Black Victory (2003). Hine is also a co-editor, with D. Barry Gaspar, of More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (1996); "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History (1995), with Linda Reed and Wilma King; and the award winning, two-volume set, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993), with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosayln Terborg-Penn. She is also editor of The State of Afro-American History, Past, Present, and Future (1986).

NANCY MACLEAN

(Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1989) is a historian of twentieth-century America, who works at the intersection of gender, race, and labor, and explores relationships between social movements and public policy. Her book Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan won prizes for the best book in southern history and the best book on the history of race relations. A recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Russell Sage Foundation, she is also one of Northwestern's Charles Deering McCormick Professors of Teaching Excellence. Her most recent book is Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, Jan. 2006)

KATE MASUR

(Ph.D. University of Michigan 2001) works on questions of race and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States and is especially interested in cities, social movements, and political theory, as well as slave emancipations throughout the Atlantic World. Her dissertation, "Reconstructing the Nation's Capital: The Politics of Race and Citizenship in the District of Columbia, 1862-1878," received awards from the University of Michigan and the American Studies Association. She is an editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 3, vol. 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and is currently revising her dissertation for publication. Kate joined the Northwestern faculty in fall 2005 after spending the previous year as a fellow at the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center.

DWIGHT MCBRIDE

(Ph.D. UCLA) is Chair and Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University. In addition to his published essays in the areas of race theory and black cultural studies-the most well-know of which is "Can the Queen Speak?: Racial Essentialism, Sexuality and the Problem of Authority," which has been printed three times-McBride is the editor of James Baldwin Now (NYU Press, 1999), co-editor of a special issue of Callaloo entitled "Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies" (Winter 2000), co-editor of Black Like Us: A Century of Queer African American Literature (Cleis Press, 2002 also nominated for a 2003 Lambda Literary Award) and author of Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (NYU Press, fall 2001). His most recent book is a collection of his own essays entitled Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality (NYU Press, 2005). Both James Baldwin Now and "Plum Nelly" received special citation (December 2000) from the Crompton-Noll Award Committee of the Modern Language Association for their significant contribution to LGBT Studies and Impossible Witnesses was a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. McBride is currently at work on two projects: Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley and Melvin Dixon's Critical Essays.

DYLAN PENNINGROTH

(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1999) works on African American history, with special interests in the history of slavery and emancipation, property and family, and African Studies. His dissertation "Claiming Kin and Property: Black Life in the Nineteenth-Century South" won the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians in 2000. The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South was published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2003, in the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. It won the 2004 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. From 2005-08 he is serving as an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. He is currently working on a book about African Americans' engagement with law in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century South.

BUTCH WARE

(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2004) specializes in West African history. His research interests include Islam, popular religious culture, and race. His dissertation, "Knowledge, Faith, and Power: A History of Qur'anic schooling in 20th Century Senegal," interrogates the role of Islamic education in shaping Muslim identities, and examines the ways in which Qur'anic schools have articulated with Sufi orders, Muslim reformers, and the state in the recent past. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication, and beginning work on a study of the history of racial and religious identity in Senegal and Mauritania, a history which exploded into a series of bloody international riots in 1989. He also has a strong interest in exploring the interwoven histories of continental and Diaspora Africans in his teaching and research.