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Anthony Wallace

Anthony F.C. Wallace is a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Rockdale, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1978. He lives in Pennsylvania.

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Keith Walters

Keith Walters is professor of applied linguistics at Portland State University. Much of his research focuses on language and identity in North Africa, especially Tunisia, and the United States. He has also taught freshman composition and English as a second/foreign language.

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Cindy Wambeam

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David Wann

David Wann is the author of many books including The New Normal, Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle and the bestselling Affluenza, which he co-authored. He lives in Golden, Colorado.

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Jesmyn Ward

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Walter D. Ward

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Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is Associate Professor and the Director of Writing Outreach Programs in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida.  Her research interests center on genre theory, the transfer of writing-related knowledge, and composition pedagogy.  She is currently conducting a study examining the impact of smaller class size on the learning of composition students, as well as a study examining the impact of the writing-about-writing pedagogy on student writing and attitudes about writing.

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John T. Warren

JOHN T. WARREN (1974-2011). Professor of Communication Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, John served as director of the introductory course at Bowling Green State University and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research, published in journals such as Communication Education, Basic Communication Course Annual, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, often included analysis of foundational communication courses.  Dr. Warren’s research interests lay at the intersections of pedagogy, performance, and difference, examining culture and power through critical, performative lenses.  He was an author/editor of six books, including Performing Purity, Critical Communication Pedagogy, The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction, and Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction

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Alison M. Warriner

Alison M. Warriner is Coordinator of Composition, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, and professor of English at California State University, East Bay, where she has also been Director of the Collaborative Academic Preparation Initiative and the Summer Writing Institutes. Previously she was Director of Communications at Sacred Heart University. She is a coauthor of Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California’s Public Colleges and Universities (2002) and of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) that is currently being introduced as Senior English into California public high schools through the Early Assessment Program of the CSU Chancellor’s Office.

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Booker T. Washington

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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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