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RICHARD JUDD is Professor of History at the University of Maine. Professor Judd was educated at California State University at Fullerton and the University of California at Irvine and received a Ph.D. in American history from Irvine in 1979. From 1981 to 1984 he was assistant editor of the Journal of Forest History and since 1984 he has edited Maine History, the state historical journal of Maine. In 1984 he joined the history faculty at the University of Maine. He is the author of Common Lands: The Origins Of Conservation In Northern New England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997); Aroostook: A Century Of Logging In Northern Maine (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1989); Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics And The Grass-Roots Of American Socialism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989); and he is co-editor of Maine: The Pine Tree State From Prehistory To The Present (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1995). He has written articles on conservation and environmental issues in Maine, New England, and eastern Canada. In 1995 he received the Neal Allen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Maine History from the Maine Historical Society, and in 1989 he was winner of the Ralph W. Hidy Award for the best article to appear that year in The Journal of Forest History. His current research involves a history of environmental thought and politics in Maine and Oregon. STEPHEN HORNSBY is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine. He brings to the research team of the Historical Atlas of Maine considerable experience as a scholar of historical geography and knowledge of the state's relationship to neighboring Canada. Professor Hornsby received his Ph.D. In Geography in 1986 from the University of British Columbia, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Cole Harris, editor of the prize-winning first volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada. Professor Hornsby has published in the leading disciplinary and sub-disciplinary journals in geography, including the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, the Geographical Review, and the Journal of Historical Geography. His first book, Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton: A Historical Geography (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992) received a regional history prize from the Canadian Historical Association in 1993. As Director of the Canadian-American Center, Professor Hornsby supervises one of only two National Research Centers on Canada funded by the U.S. Department of Education under its Title VI international education program. In this role, Professor Hornsby has co-edited The Northeastern Borderlands: Four Centuries of Interaction (Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press, 1989), a pioneering attempt to look at cross-border interaction between Canada and the United States on a regional basis, and he is currently co-editing with Canadian historian John Reid a successor volume of essays entitled New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming). BURTON HATLEN is Professor of English at the University of Maine and Director of the National Poetry Foundation, a research institute focused primarily on 20th Century American poetry. His research interests are literary and cultural history, and he is an experienced editor of books and scholarly journals. He is the editor and co-author of George Oppen: Man and Poet, and he has published many articles on such 20th Century poets as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, Ted Enslin and many others. He has a special interest in the work of "ecopoets" such as Charles Olson and Gary Snyder, who take as their theme the topography of the planet and the place of human beings within the ecosystem; and much of his research work has centered on poets who lived and wrote in Maine, including Oppen, Levertov, and Enslin. An ecopoetic perspective shaped by the work of these poets has informed his involvement with the atlas project from its beginning. As Director of the National Poetry Foundation, he serves as senior editor of the four to six books published each year by the Foundation and distributed through the University Press of New England, and since 1982 he has edited Sagetrieb, a scholarly journal devoted to postmodernist American poetry. Professor Hatlen has also played a leadership role in faculty governance during his 32 years at the University of Maine, serving as department chair, as chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate, and most recently as Interim Dean. He will bring to the role of Project Coordinator his administrative experience and the contacts that he has made with people within the University community and throughout the state during his years as a faculty member and administrator. GEORGE JACOBSON is Professor of Botany and Quaternary Studies, Cooperating Professor of Wildlife, and Director of the Institute for Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine. The Institute, drawing together faculty and researchers from geology, botany, oceanography, anthropology, history, and other disciplines, constitutes an interdisciplinary research team with an extraordinary record of achievements and with a particular expertise in the dynamic natural history of the northeastern region from the time of the last ice age to the present. JACQUES FERLAND also of the University of Maine History Department, received his Ph.D. From McGill University in Montreal and has specialized in the study of the "borderlands" region between the United States and Canada. He also brings to the committee his expertise in the history of the Native Peoples of Maine. MARTHA McNAMARA received her Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University in 1995. Her research specialty is the built environment and material culture of the Northeast, particularly New England. In addition to writing articles on the landscape and civic architecture of New England, she has served as a director of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. She shares with Professor Judd responsibility for teaching the University of Maine's courses in Maine history and is co-editor with Professor Judd of Maine History, the quarterly journal of the Maine Historical Society. |
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