Editorial Board

CARL ABBOTT has taught at Portland State University since 1978. He has written extensively on the history of Portland and the Pacific Northwest and has been active as a board member of the Historic Preservation League of Oregon, the Oregon Downtown Development Association, and Livable Oregon. He is a contributor to the Oregonian and Portland Monthly and a frequent speaker to community groups.

RICHARD "DICK" BOGLE, a fifth-generation Oregonian, attended Hosford Elementary and Washington High schools in Portland before attending Oregon State College and Portland State College. In 1959, Dick became a Portland police officer, serving in several investigative capacities until he resigned in 1968 to become a news reporter at KATU TV. After 15 years, he left KATU and entered local politics. He was elected to the Portland City Council in 1985 and served two four-year terms. Retiring in 1993, freelance writing and photography fill his time, but his passion is jazz. He was the host a weekly jazz radio program on Mt. Hood Community College's KMHD 89.1 FM and has photographed many world-class jazz musicians.

JULIE ESPARZA BROWN is the director of Portland State University's Bilingual Teacher Pathway program. She has worked for almost 20 years in public schools as a bilingual teacher, special education teacher, and bilingual school psychologist. She currently serves on the educational boards of the Oregon Council for Hispanic Administrators and Clackamas Community College's Pathways to Success, as well as the Oregon Association of Latino Administrators.

MINA CARSON is an assistant professor of American social and cultural history at Oregon State University. She teaches courses on the Progressive and New Deal eras, women in the twentieth century, American families, gay and lesbian movements, and the history of psychotherapy. She is also an accomplished musician and in 2004 co-authored Girls Rock: Fifty Years of Women Making Music.

REBECCA DOBKINS is an associate professor of anthropology at Willamette University. She is the faculty curator of Native American Art and has curated several exhibits at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

SUSAN BADGER DOYLE moved from Wyoming to Pendleton in 1997. She is an independent scholar specializing in historic western overland trails, with particular interest in nineteenth-century emigrant trails, transportation, and the settlement of Oregon.

RICHARD ETULAIN received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1966 with a dissertation on Oregon novelist Ernest Haycox. He has researched and written about several Oregon figures, particularly literary, cultural, and political men and women. Of his more than 40 authored or edited books, most focus on western or northwestern subjects, especially cultural, religious, and political history. He has also edited books dealing with the Basques of the Pacific Northwest.

JAMES FOX first served as a special collections librarian at University of Oregon’s Knight Library from 1989 to 1993. After a seven-year stint at the University of Michigan, he returned to Eugene and since 2000 has been the head of Special Collections and University Archives. He is responsible for acquiring and managing the papers and records of notable Oregon writers, politicians, and organizations and has also been heavily involved in the Northwest Digital Archives project and has served on the editorial boards of the Oregon State University Press, the Knight Library Press, and Wellsprings Friends School, an alternative high school in Eugene. He is an avid fly fisher who plies Oregon’s mountain and coastal streams at every opportunity.

ROGER HULL, professor of art history at Willamette University, has lived in Oregon since 1970. He envisioned and helped establish the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. As a faculty curator at the Museum, he has written monographs and curated retrospective exhibitions on the Salem painter Carl Hall (2001), the Eugene sculptor Jan Zach (2003), and the Portland painters and printmakers Charles E. Heaney (2005) and George Johanson (2007). He was the recipient of an Oregon Governor's Arts Award in 1999.

JANE HUNTER is associate dean and professor of history at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Her area of study is American cultural and social history including women's history. After graduating from college, she spent two years teaching English composition in Hong Kong. She also taught for ten years at Colby College in Maine, before moving to Oregon in 1990. During 2003-2004 Jane taught American History in Shanghai on a Fulbright Fellowship.

KIMBERLY JENSEN received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in women's and U.S. history and teaches history and gender studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and received the Joel Palmer Prize from the Oregon Historical Quarterly for her fall 2007 article "'Neither Head Nor Tail to the Campaign': Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912." She is writing a biography of Lovejoy, Oregon suffragist and public health activist, organizer and first president of the Medical Women's International Association, pioneer in transnational medical relief, and historian of women in medicine.

As a "Navy brat" growing up in places such as Brooklyn, New York, and the Panama Canal Zone, JEFF LALANDE found his Idaho-born parents’ tales of their small-town childhoods too alluring to resist. He moved to Ashland, Oregon, after graduating from Georgetown University in 1969. For thirty-plus years, he was archaeologist and historian for the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. With a master’s degree in archaeology (OSU) and a Ph.D. in history (U of O), Jeff has been an adjunct faculty member at Southern Oregon University for over twenty years. He continues to learnand write about a wide range of Northwest history topics and is an active board member of several statewide and community organizations.

LARRY LANDIS has been a resident of Oregon for almost 20 years. He has been University Archivist at Oregon State University since 1996 and is a recent recipient of the Oregon Heritage Excellence Award. He was instrumental in establishing the Oregon Multicultural Archives at OSU and the Northwest Digital Archives. As a native of Indiana, he sees some similarities between the two states—strong agriculture and beautiful summers (though a bit more hot and humid in Indiana)—and the Oregon constitution was based in part on Indiana's. There are a number of other Landises in the mid-Willamette Valley, many of them with ties to the Mennonite community, as did some of Larry's ancestors.

DAVID LEWIS is manager of the Cultural Resources Department for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community. Currently working on his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Oregon, Lewis specializes in cultural anthropology, Pacific Northwest ethnography, indigenous sovereignty, termination of Oregon Tribes, and American Indian culture. An enrolled member at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, his ancestral heritage is Chinook, Takelma, and Santiam Kalapuya. While at the University of Oregon, Lewis was director of the Southwest Oregon Research Project. He is an army brat who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, and lived in Italy before his family returned to Salem. He graduated from McKay High in 1983 and lived in Sonoma County, California, for 10 years before returning to Oregon to attend college.

MITZI LOFTUS is a retired schoolteacher who grew up in Hood River. She currently lives in Ashland and is an expert in Japanese American culture.

BARBARA MAHONEY is a historian and biographer. In 2003, she won an Oregon Book Award for her biography of Oregon native Ralph Barnes, European correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.

JOANNE B. MULCAHY has taught at the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College for over 20 years. From 1988 to 1991, as director of the Oregon Folklife Program, she documented stories and vernacular arts in many Oregon communities. She has published essays about Northwest culture and women’s lives in numerous journals and anthologies, including These United States and The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West. Mulcahy is currently writing a book about the life of Eva Castellañoz, a Mexicana folk artist and healer from eastern Oregon. She has been privileged to document some of the stories and arts that enliven every Oregon community and hopes to spend many more years as one of the scribes who chronicle our collective, sometimes conflicting, and still emerging story.

DAVID MILHOLLAND is co-founder and president of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. Born in 1946 in Greeley, Colorado, Milholland moved to Lakeview in Oregon’s high desert just before kindergarten. The eldest offspring of life-long educators, Milholland thrived for a decade in Lakeview’s brisk, mile-high air. He served as Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala before receiving a B.A. in 1971 from Lewis & Clark College. A Portland resident and prize-winning filmmaker, editor, and author, Milholland won the 2004 Stewart Holbrook Award for “significant contributions to Oregon’s literary arts.”

JAROLD RAMSEY is a native Oregonian and professor of English emeritus from the University of Rochester, where he taught courses in poetry and creative writing as well as American Indian and environmental literature. He is the author of several books on Indian and folk literature.

WILLIAM G. ROBBINS is distinguished professor emeritus at Oregon State University, where he was professor of history from 1971 until 1999. He is the author and editor of books on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, including Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 and Oregon, This Storied Land. Since immigrating to Oregon from the East Coast in 1963, Robbins has developed an abiding affection for the state. It has been one of his great joys to have taught Pacific Northwest and Western American history for more than 30 years.

JIM SCHEPPKE is the Oregon State librarian. He has written on the origins of the Oregon State Library and served on the board of the Oregon Library Association.

PRIMUS ST. JOHN is professor of English at Portland State University, where he has taught since 1973. He is an award-winning poet and has published several volumes of his work, including Communion: Poems, 1976-1998, which won the Western States Book Award, and Dreamer (1990), which received the 1990 Hazel Hall Award for Poetry. Primus also helped initiate the Poet's in the Schools Program for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

RICH WANDSCHNEIDER moved to northeastern Oregon in 1971 to work as a community development agent with the Oregon State University Extension Service. He had been a volunteer and staff member with the Peace Corps in Turkey and a Peace Corps Fellow in Washington, D.C. In 1976, he opened a bookstore in Enterprise; and in 1988, with encouragement and help from historian Alvin Josephy and writer Kim Stafford, he founded Fishtrap Inc. to promote “clear thinking and good writing in and about the West.” Rich writes a column for the Wallowa County Chieftain and has written for several magazines and newspapers, including the Oregonian, High Country News, Portland Magazine, and High Desert Journal.