Notes on Contributors

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Eiichiro Azuma is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two award-winning monographs: Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press, 2005) and In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (University of California Press, 2019).Cameron Givens is a PhD candidate in history at The Ohio State University. His dissertation, provisionally entitled “A Rumor of War: Fear, Misinformation, and the Making of Modern America, 1915–1924,” examines the cultural construction of internal enemies during a decade defined by the nation's approach to, experience in, and demobilization from the First World War.Robert O'Sullivan is a historian of American, European, Atlantic and Imperial history, and the history of the Irish in the United States. He is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge in 2019, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2020.Gerson Rosales is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently writing a dissertation about the long history of Salvadoran migration to the San Francisco Bay Area.Kristalyn Shefveland is the author of Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646–1722. Current research projects include Old Florida: Yankee Settler Colonialism in the Land of the Aís and Seminole and a co-edited volume, The Great Upheaval: War, Migration, and Transformation in Early Modern America, 1675–1725.