Law Of Connection Michael Losier

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Contributors thomas j. balcerski Thomas J. Balcerski is an associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (2019). Balcerski holds a PhD in History from Cornell University, a Master's in History from SUNY Stony Brook, and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and Economics from Cornell University. He is currently working on a new history of the Democratic Party, America's oldest partisan institution.

marsha e. barrett Marsha E. Barrett is an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines modern U.S. political history with a particular focus on public policy and political culture after 1945. She has received research support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, and the New York State Archives. She is revising her first book, tentatively titled, The Politics of Moderation: Nelson Rockefeller's Failed Fight to Save the Party of Lincoln.

michael b. boston Michael B. Boston is an associate professor at the College at Brockport in the Department of African and African American Studies. His historical fields of interests are the Underground Railroad, urban history, and business history. His current book, Blacks in Niagara Falls, 1850 to 1985, will be published by SUNY Press in August 2021.

orisanmi burton Orisanmi Burton is an assistant professor at American University and a social anthropologist working in the United States. His research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression. He is completing a book manuscript on the radical prison movement in New York.

gideon cohn-postar Gideon Cohn-Postar is a scholar of the history of American democracy with a focus on voter intimidation and ballot reform during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. His dissertation explored connections between economic forms of voter coercion and the enactment of ballot secrecy laws in the United States. Gideon received his PhD in history from Northwestern University in 2020 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

gary craig Gary Craig is an investigative and criminal justice reporter with the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York. Craig has won local, state, and national awards for his reporting and writing. He and his wife, Charlotte, live in Brighton and have two daughters. Craig is working with Deanne Quinn Miller, whose father was a corrections officer killed at Attica, on her memoir.

deanne quinn miller Deanne Quinn Miller is the daughter of slain Corrections Officer William E. Quinn and member and spokesperson of the Forgotten Victims of Attica. Dee is a program coordinator for the New York State Defenders Association Veterans Defense Program where she received New York's Women Veterans in Justice System Award and the Women of Distinction Award for her work with veterans. Dee is completing a memoir of her life and the aftermath of the Attica Riot. The book is scheduled to be released in September 2021. Dee and her husband reside in Batavia, New York, and have two grown daughters.

melissa franson Melissa Franson is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Binghamton University, and her research focuses on history as a lived experience. Her dissertation, "The Ties that Bound Them Together: The Rural Catskills Homefront and Civil War Battlefront," examines how civilians and soldiers from the Catskills region of New York State experienced the American Civil War as a lived reality in their everyday lives. Franson is currently an instructor...

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