James Allen is an honors student at Bowdoin College. He has been actively engaged in Democratic Party politics,  working in the office of the Secretary of State of Maine and in Washington, D.C.

Gülriz Büken is an Associate Professor of American Studies teaching in the Department of History at Bilkent University. She is the President of the American Studies Association of Turkey (1994-) and a Board member of EAAS (European Association for American Studies, 1997-). She has taught at Hacettepe University and been a Fulbright scholar in the US. She is the coeditor of Crossing the Boundaries: Cultural Studies in the UK and the US (1997), The History of Culture: The Culture of History (1998), and Popular Culture(s) (forthcoming).

Solomon Davidoff is an Instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and a doctoral candidate in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University. He is the associate managing editor of “The Working Paper Series on Historical Systems, Peoples and Culture.”

Pere Gifra-Adroher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She is the author of Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States (forthcoming) and of numerous articles.

Lawrence B. Goodheart is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut University. He has taught in Turkey. He is the author of Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist (1990), and co-editor of The Abolitionists (1995), Slavery in American Society (1993), and American Chameleon (1991).

Aylin Güney is a member of Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University and is the author of numerous articles.

Frederick Hale is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). He has taught and held editorial positions in Norway, Sweden and the US. He is the author of, among others, Janet Campbell Hale (1996) and of numerous articles.

Mary M. Mackie is a Research Assistant in the English Department of the University of Oklahoma, and completing a Ph.D. dissertation on the storytelling techniques of Native American writers. She has worked in The Harvard Post and The Boston Common newspapers (1985-1990). She is the editorial assistant of Genre, published by the English Department of the University of Oklahoma (1998-), the editor of 67 Nations (forthcoming), and has published poetry and short stories.

Cath Oberholtzer is a Research Associate and part-time Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University (Ontario, Canada), teaching the arts and material culture of Native North Americans. Her research and journal publications focus on the Cree people in the James Bay area of Canada, and she is currently working on a book about their headgear.

Michael Oppermann is the Rector of Abendgymnasium in Dresden, Germany. He was a Fulbright scholar in the US and has taught in Turkey. He is the author of Innere und Aussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hörspielwerk (1991), and of numerous articles.

Kenneth Wayne Rose is Assistant to the Director of the Rockefeller Archive Center (a division of Rockefeller University), at present a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Ege University. He has taught in the US. He is the editor of A Survey of Sources at the Rockefeller Archive Center for the Study of 20th Century Africa (1996), and of A Bibliography of Scholarship at the Rockefeller Archive Center 1975-1996 (1996); coeditor of Establishing Foundation Archives: A Reader and Guide to First Steps (1991); guest coeditor of the Fall 1997 issue of Minerva; and senior editorial assistant of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (1987, 2nd ed. 1996).

Lee Schweninger is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is the author of The Writings of Celia Parker Woolley (1848-1918) Literary Activist (1998), John Winthrop (1990), and Departing Glory: Eight Jeremiads by Increase Mather (1986).

Kenneth J. Speirs is Visiting Assistant Professor in Beijing Normal University (China). He is the author of numerous articles and has published poetry.

Meldan Tanrısal is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University. Her area of specialization is Native American Studies and she has published numerous articles in that field.