Mimi Azenstadt is Professor at the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare and at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include gender, social policy, and the history of the welfare state. mimi@mscc.huji.ac.il

James J. Connolly is Professor of History at Ball State University and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies. In 2010, he published An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. With colleagues Frank Felsenstein and John Straw, he is working on a book and digital history project, “What Middletown Read.” jconnoll@bsu.edu

Matthew Dull is Associate Professor at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. His research interests include American political institutions, public policy, and public administration.mdull@vt.edu

John Gal is Associate Professor and Dean at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest include social policy in Israel and in a comparative perspective, and policy practice. His recent books include a study of income maintenance in Israel, a study of the history of unemployment policy in Israel, an edited volume on access to social justice (with Mimi Ajzenstadt), and Professional Ideologies and Preferences in Social Work: A Global Study with Idit Weiss and John Dixon. msjgsw@huji.ac.il

Thomas C. Lassman is Curator of the post-1945 rocket and missile collection in the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. His research focuses on the history of military and industrial research and development in the United States and the history of weapons acquisition in the Department of Defense. lassmant@si.edu

Alan Lessoff is Professor of History at Illinois State University and Editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His latest book, edited with Thomas Welskopp, is Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s–1940s (2012). He recently completed a book manuscript entitled Corpus Christi: A City of the South Texas Coast. ahlesso@ilstu.edu

Gabriel Loiacono is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He is currently working on a multibiography of paupers and overseers of the poor in the early republic period. loiacong@uwosh.edu

David M. Reimers is Emeritus Professor of History at New York University. His research interests include immigration, U.S. history, ethnicity, and nativism. He is the author of a number of monographs, including Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (Columbia University Press, 1998) and Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans, 3rd ed., with Len Dinnerstein and Roger Nichols (Oxford University Press, 1996). dr5@nyu.edu

Patrick S. Roberts is Associate Professor in Government at the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy in Alexandria. His research interests are public administration, American political history, homeland security, and disaster policy. robertsp@vt.edu