Sarah Chang, Ph.D.
Sarah Chang, Assistant Professor of History, studies the history of socialist factories in China from the 1950s to the present. Her current book project traces how the Chinese state created behemoth industrial enterprises under socialism and left them bankrupt during China's market reforms. Her research shows that similar to those employed at rust belt factories in the United States, workers and their families at China's state-owned enterprises lost their livelihoods and their sense of identity, finding themselves caught in the structural adjustments of a changing national and global economy.
For more information and contact, see Dr. Chang's webpage.
Elyssa Ford, Ph.D.
Elyssa Ford is a public historian and a scholar of gender and sexuality in the American West. She has published extensively on rodeo in the United States and is interested in the grounding of rodeo in American history and the meaning that various groups have made between their own identity and rodeo participation. She also has written on women’s suffrage in the Midwest and has numerous public talks on this topic.
For more information and contact, see www.elyssaford.com
Sarah Gold McBride, Ph.D.
Sarah Gold McBride is a lecturer in the Program in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in the social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States. Dr. Gold McBride's work focuses on intersections of race, gender, popular culture, and the body in the lives of ordinary Americans. She has particular expertise in the history of hair, material culture, and popular entertainment (such as P. T. Barnum and world’s fairs); she is also available to discuss K–16 history pedagogy. Her book Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
For more information, see Dr. Gold McBride's webpage.
Jennifer Helgren, Ph.D.
Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where she teaches U.S. history, women’s history, and digital history. She is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on U.S. girlhood, with particular expertise in youth organizations such as the Camp Fire Girls and the Girl Scouts. She has served as a humanities consultant on numerous digital history projects about California history.
For more information, see Dr. Helgren's website or contact Jennifer at jhelgren@pacific.edu
Janelle Molony, M.S.L.
Janelle Molony, M.S.L. is an award-winning author and historian with a special interest in Overland & Oregon Trail stories. She has received various honors for her research findings, as published in several academic journals and topical magazines such as Wild West.
Janelle is available to discuss Westward Emigration, including trail diaries or memoirs from the 1860s, highlighting various people, places, and events that were witnessed during this time. She is an active member of the Overland-California Trails Association, Western Writers of America, and serves as the Chair for the Oral History Committee with the Wyoming Historical Society.
For more information and contact, see www.JanelleMolony.com/contact
Kristina Shull, Ph.D.
Tina Shull, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNC Charlotte specializing in race, empire, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World. Shull is the author of Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance and creator of digital history projects IMM Print, Climate Refugee Stories, and Climate Inequality CLT. She has been named a Soros Justice Fellow and National Geographic Explorer for her advocacy and storytelling work surrounding immigration detention and climate migration.
For more information and to contact, visit tinashull.com.
Pamela Stewart, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Pamela Stewart, Arizona State University Teaching Professor, emerita, founded her consulting company ACTIVHISTorian.com in 2022 to help organizations and communities harness history to address present and future challenges. Its tagline summarizes her ongoing work: If we don’t know the history, we can’t solve the problem.
Stewart’s keynotes and workshops highlight the role of history in solving today’s problems. Her research centers the experience of women-headed households during the later-19th and 20th centuries, including their wartime lives. Public radio interviews have addressed wide-ranging topics in women’s, gender, and LGBTQ+ history.
For more information and contact, see ACTIVHISTorian.com