Notes on Contributors

Chloe Bordewich is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute. Her research focuses on the history of archives and information in Egypt and the broader Arab world. She received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2022 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University from 2022–2023. She is also co-founder of the Boston Little Syria Project, a public history initiative documenting the history of Boston's first Arabic-speaking neighborhood.Alyssa M. Brophy holds a MA in History and an MLIS in Archive Management from Simmons University. Alyssa has worked in the archival field since 2016. Her own research includes immigration, race science, and medical history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Sena Duran is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her research and scholarship trace the histories of Middle Eastern women's racialized sexual subjectivities as they have been variably produced, performed, and received in US cinematic history and media practices.Belquis Elhadi is an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow and Manager of Learning and Impact at Full Spectrum Features. She received her PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 2023, where she specialized in Arab and Muslim American studies. Her research and teaching focuses on representations of Muslims in popular culture, race and gender, and Islam in the United States.Nathan Ellstrand is a postdoctoral Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow at San Diego State University and a historian of twentieth-century transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America. Ellstrand is not an employee of DPAA; he supports DPAA through a partnership. The views presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of DPAA, Department of Defense, or its Components.Lori A. Flores is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, where she teaches courses in Latinx, labor, immigration, and borderlands history. She is the author of Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and the California Farmworker Movement (Yale University Press, 2016) and Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (University of North Carolina Press, 2025).Sarah Gualtieri is a professor in the departments of American Studies and Ethnicity and History and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching bridge several fields, notably Arab American studies, critical ethnic studies, and Middle East migration studies. She is the author of Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (University of California Press, 2009) and Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California (Stanford University Press, 2019).Delilah Hernandez is a PhD candidate in US History at the University of California San Diego. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Mujer y Salud: How Chicanas Forged a Movement for Health Justice in Texas,” examines the development of a Chicana feminist consciousness and politics around public health issues.Lu Jin is a lecturer in the Department of English at Shanghai University, China. Her research centers on the presence of China in early American literature. Lu's other research interests are early Sino-American cultural exchanges and Asian American literature.Marilynn S. Johnson is Research Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Region Since the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015) and is co-director of Global Boston, a digital immigration history project.Deborah E. Kanter is Professor Emerita of History at Albion College. Her book Pioneers of Latino Ministry: Claretians and the Evolving World of Catholic America (New York University Press) is forthcoming.Miguel A. Levario is Associate Professor of US History and Borderlands Studies in the Department of History at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy (Texas A&M University Press, 2012).Kenneth H. Marcus is Professor of History at the University of La Verne, where he teaches courses in European and American history, world history, and history methods. Specializing in the cultural history of Los Angeles, he has published over seventy books, articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, podcasts, and recordings.Lydia Mathews is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on public health, gender, and immigration in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. She obtained an MA from Brandeis University in 2023, writing her thesis on Italian immigrant women and milk stations in Boston.Milan Mrđenović graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts in Maribor in 2016. He obtained his PhD in American Studies at the University of Ljubljana in 2022. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of American Slovenes. Since February 2023, he has been a teaching assistant at the University of Nova Gorica.Zackary Qualls is an MA student and graduate assistant at Florida State University. Focusing primarily on modern American and Native American history, his research interests revolve around pan-Indianism, the appropriation of Native American culture, tourism, and Native Americans in the twentieth century.Robert Shaffer is Professor Emeritus of History at Shippensburg University and book review editor of Peace & Change, the journal of the Peace History Society. Among his recent publications is “Harold Ickes: A New Dealer's Opposition to the Early Cold War,” in Peace & Change, July 2024.Nicole Siegel is a PhD candidate at Fordham University studying American history with a focus on American Jewish history. Her research on Jewish physicians in America between 1850 and 1950 focuses on the intersection of religion and medicine during a time of great social and political change.Harvey Strum is Program Director of History and Political Science at Russell Sage College, where he has taught for thirty-eight years. His research interests include American Jewish history, American and Canadian aid to Ireland, and politics of the early national period.Bohan Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Rice University. His research examines the history of the United States in the world, with a particular focus on the Territory of Hawai‘i as a maritime borderland between the US Empire and East Asia during the twentieth century.

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