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Mark Wasserman

Mark Wasserman (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of history at Rutgers University. He is the author of Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War; Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940; and Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854–1911. He is also the coauthor of Latin America and Its People, Second Edition, with Cheryl E. Martin. He has previously served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.

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Harry L. Watson

Harry L. Watson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict and An Independent People.

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Harry L. Watson

Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Center for the Study of the American South. He edits Southern Cultures, the Center’s quarterly journal. He has also published three scholarly books, numerous articles, and has edited two volumes of essays. His 1983 An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1750-1820 was corecipient of the AHA's James Harvey Robinson Award. Watson's Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990), is considered the most cogent synthesis of Jacksonian politics in a generation of scholarship. His most recent book is Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America, in the Bedford Series in History and Culture. Watson has been a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, he lectures widely in the United States and abroad, and he is currently president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

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David J. Weber

David J. Weber is Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He has written many books, including The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992), and was a Fulbright lecturer at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is a past president of the Western History Association and the only American historian elected to membership in both the Mexican Academy of History and the Society of American Historians.

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Katharine Weber

Katharine Weber is the author of three novels. Her paternal grandmother finished buttonholes for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1909. She lives in Connecticut.

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Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind contributed to Spring Awakening from Faber & Faber.

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J. Robert Wegs

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Stephen Weidenborner

Stephen Weidenborner was a professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, for over thirty years. He coauthored several other composition textbooks with Domenick Caruso, also a former professor of English at Kingsborough Community College.

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Ye Weili

Ye Weili is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston and the recipient of a Fulbright research award.

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Lawrence Weinstein

Lawrence Weinstein taught the first-year writing course at Harvard University and cofounded Harvard’s Writing Center. For nearly thirty years, he was a member of the English Department at Bentley University, where he directed the Writing Center and the Expository Writing Program. His book on the teaching of writing, Writing at the Threshold, was a longtime bestseller of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Other books by Weinstein include Grammar for the Soul, Grammar Moves (with his colleague Thomas Finn), and Writing Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely. Plays by Weinstein have been performed in Boston, Dallas, and New York.

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Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He is also an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, and on NPR, among others. Formerly a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is now a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions.

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Christian R. Weisser

Christian Weisser (PhD University of South Florida) is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Berks. He serves as Coordinator of both the Professional Writing Program and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Dr. Weisser is the Editor of Composition Forum, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in rhetoric and composition. His research focuses upon the ways in which writing can move beyond traditional disciplinary and academic boundaries, and he has authored or co-authored six books and numerous articles on this subject. He enjoys teaching courses in technical, business, and electronic writing, basic and advanced composition, and environmental rhetoric.

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Peter Wende

Peter Wende was formerly Professor of History at Frankfurt University and Director of the German Historical Institute in London. He is now retired and lives in Frankfurt.

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Edith Wharton

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Patricia White

Patricia White is Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana UP, 1999) and numerous articles and chapters on film theory and culture. She is writing a book on women filmmakers and world cinema. She is a member of the editorial collective of the leading English-language journal of feminism and film, Camera Obscura, and she currently chairs the board of the nonprofit feminist media arts organization and independent distributor Women Make Movies. With Timothy Corrigan, coauthor of The Film Experience, she is editing an anthology of essays in classical and contemporary film theory.

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