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Susan B. Carter is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. Carter is an economic and demographic historian who has written on women's history, family history, the history of aging in America, and immigration. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of California's Washington Center. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stanford University and taught at Smith College before joining the faculty at Riverside.
Scott Sigmund Gartner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research addresses both how war affects domestic politics (e.g. how wartime casualties affect public opinion and elections), and how domestic politics affects war (e.g. how organizations influence strategic assessment). His PH.D. dissertation won the American Political Science Association's Lasswell Award and was granted from the University of Michigan.
Michael R. Haines is Banfi Vintners Professor of Economics at Colgate University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Haines is a past President of the Social Science History Association. He is an economic historian and historical demographer who has written on historical fertility, mortality, and health in the United States, historical consumer behavior, and historical census and vital statistics materials. Haines has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alan L. Olmstead is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs at the University of California, Davis. He is the President nominee of the Economic History Association. Olmstead's research interests include technological change, slavery, American agricultural history, international agricultural development, and transition economies. Olmstead has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Richard Sutch is President of the International Economic History Association and past President of the American Economic History Association. He is Distinguished Professor of Economics and History at the University of California, Riverside, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sutch is a specialist in American economic history and has written on a diverse set of subjects including American slavery, emancipation, immigration, and the history of saving and retirement. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of California's Washington Center. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught at UC Berkeley for 30 years before transferring to the Riverside Campus.
Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University. He is a past President of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society. Wright has written on the role of natural resources in economic development, and on the economic history of the American South, from the slavery era to the Civil Rights Revolution. He has a Ph.D. from Yale University.