THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY

Growing up in Medfield, Massachusetts, marrying very young and living in various parts of America, Linda Morse persistently pursued an interrupted college education, culminating in an A.B. in anthropology from the University of Georgia in 1995.  Linda then earned an M.Ed. at Framingham State University with a focus on American history and began her teaching career.  After graduating with an M.A. in History from Providence College in 2010, her thesis was published in our Fall 2011 issue.  The following year, Linda was invited to serve as editor of the New England Journal of History. She is grateful for the overwhelming support in this role from her associate editors, family, and colleagues at the Foxborough Regional Charter School where she has taught history since 2006.  Linda and her husband Doug have two adult daughters of whom they are very proud and enjoy attending plays, visiting the Cape, and pursuing their careers.

David Brandon Dennis (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2011) studies European and German history using global and transnational approaches. Specifically, his areas of focus include masculinity history, maritime history, and the history of science.  He has published in such venues as German History, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, and The Blackwell Companion to German Cinema. Currently serving as professor of history and head of the Humanities Program at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, he is the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships, including a DAAD Fellowship, Fulbright Research Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

William Dorsey is a 2024 graduate of Dean College, with a bachelor’s degree in history. He is currently pursuing dual masters degrees in Library and Information Science and History at Simmons University, where he expects to graduate in the fall of 2027. He served as managerial intern for the New England Journal of History in 2023, and worked as a peer tutor for the History Department at Dean College during the spring and fall semesters of 2023. He co-produced two short documentaries, "Horace Mann: A Political Career" and "Italian Anarchists and the Ray Mill Bombing," and his senior thesis "The Glorious Revolution of 1688: English Politics and Dutch Ambitions" was published in the New England Journal of History. Most recently, he interned at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design archives, helping process its William J. Gunn Pictorial Reference Collection.

R. A. Lawson (Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2003) is a cultural historian who has written on musical, visual, and theatrical arts. His signature work is Jim Crow’s Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 (LSU Press), which won the Gulf South Historical Association’s Thomason Prize for book of the year in 2011. His most recent research and pedagogical projects explore the cultural history of medicine in the U.S.—work that was funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Lawson won the Hicks-Kennedy Award for service to the New England History Teachers Association for his role as associate editor at the New England Journal of History. He recently earned the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success for his contributions in and out of the classroom—the third pedagogical award of his career. He is professor of history and Director of the Honors Program at Dean College.

Darra D. Mulderry holds a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Brandeis University and an M.A. in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research. She served as lecturer and assistant director of undergraduate studies for the Degrees in Social Studies program at Harvard University and is currently Associate Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Adjunct Professor of History at Providence College. Darra specializes in modern intellectual history and U.S. political and religious history, and her articles on the history of U.S. Catholic sisters in the 20th century have appeared in Catholic Historical Review and American Catholic Studies. She is currently working on a book about U.S. nuns and social-justice education in the postwar years.

Robert Naeher (Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Connecticut) is currently a history instructor and AWAY Programs Coordinator at Emma Willard School, Troy, NY, where he has also served as Department Chair.  Previously at The Master’s School, Simsbury, CT, he was both a history instructor and the Upper Division Director.  He has worked with secondary school teachers and students in Russia and Mongolia as part of two different travel grants through the U.S. State Department and the American Federation of Teachers. Published articles include those in the New England Journal of History and New York History.  He has been awarded Emma Willard School’s Madelyn Levitt and Linda Glazer Toohey Award for Faculty Excellence.  Areas of particular interest include American religious history, environmental history, and foreign policy.

​Erin Redihan is a lecturer in the history department at Salve Regina University. She is the author of The Cold War and the Olympics, 1948-1968 (2017) and several articles on the intersection of the Olympics and the Cold War, most recently “‘Colonialism Has No Place in the Olympic Movement’: Ukrainian American Activists and the Olympics, 1956-1984” (2026). She holds an M.A. in history from Providence College (2010), a Ph.D. in history from Clark University (2014) and a MLIS from San Jose State University (2020). Erin specializes in twentieth century history, particularly the Cold War, modern Russia, and American foreign policy. Her current research centers on Soviet opposition protest groups and their use of the Olympic Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. She also pursues academic research pertaining to public libraries and is involved in the Rhode Island Library Association.

Gregg Seibert (M.A., Emmerson College) serves as assistant professor of media studies and Communications Program Coordinator at Dean College, where he teaches various video production and post-production courses. Before joining the faculty at Dean in 2015, he served on the faculty of Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA. In addition, Gregg is the is the founder and president of Purple Turtle Productions, a film production studio and post-production company, as well as an online store located in West Wareham, MA. He is the writer, director, and producer of the documentary Ravine and the feature Perfect Run. He has worked on more than one hundred commercials, corporate productions, documentaries, and feature programs as an editor including the documentary Bridging Cultures and the children’s television series Cool Stuff. Gregg serves the community by working as a board member for LakeCAM, a community access television station located in his hometown of Lakeville, MA. Additionally, he is the founder and executive director of RowForLife.org, an annual event that raises funds to benefit families that have loved ones currently undergoing cancer treatment.

​John Woitkowitz (Ph.D., University of Calgary, 2018) hails from Berlin, Germany, where he is Deputy Head of Research Services and Head of the Stabi Lab at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB). His expertise includes the fields of research infrastructure, data services, digital storytelling and science communication. Before joining the SBB, John’s research focused on nineteenth and twentieth-century histories of exchange and knowledge transfer in the transatlantic world, specifically the polar regions. He taught at universities in Canada and England, completed a research associateship at Cambridge University and published his research in academic journals, digital histories, scholarly blogs and news media outlets.

Tom Schnauber is a composer, writer, and editor who lives and works in New England. He has taught music at Emmanuel College and the New England Conservatory, as well as copyediting at Dean College. In addition to editing for The New England Journal of History, his current work includes serving as program editor for Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and copyeditor for The Weekly Sentinel (Wells, ME). He holds a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from the University of Michigan and has also worked as a translator of articles, poems, and books from German to English.

Claire Shaw is a Wellesley alumna who has worked as a technical copy editor/proofreader for Analog Devices in Norwood, MA. She edits articles appearing in Portal, the newsletter of the Medfield Historical Society and has edited two books for Richard DeSorgher, Medfield Town Historian.