The Authors of the OE
Patricia A. Schechter is associate professor of History at Portland State University. Her book Ida B. Wells-Barnett in American Reform, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill, 2001) won the Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. She and her students have worked on a number of community-based history projects in Oregon with groups like the YWCA of Greater Portland, the Oregon Nurses Association, and the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Paul Scheerer is a fish biologist for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Native Fish Investigations Project. Paul has worked for the agency for nineteen years focusing on the recovery of Oregon's native nongame fishes. He was the recipient of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Recovery Champion award in 2006 for his work.
Jim Scheppke has been State Librarian of Oregon since 1991. He’s worked at the Oregon State Library since 1986 and before that at the Texas State Library. He has served as president of the Oregon Library Association and of the Western Council of State Libraries, and has written numerous articles for professional library publications. He was named Oregon Library Association Librarian of the Year in 1996 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oregon Association of School Libraries in 2001. He has an Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
June Arima Schumann is a Nikkei who was born in Japan of a Japanese American mother and a Japanese national father. When she was 11, she came to the United States classed as an alien dependent of a U.S. citizen. She grew up in Denver and received a B.A. in art education at Ottawa University in Kansas, and an M.S.W. at Temple University. Her professional career for over thirty years was as policy and program planner in gerontology services. She is one of the founders and the first director for the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, established in 1998.
E.A. Schwartz is an associate professor at California State University, San Marcos, where he teaches American Indian history and the history of the West. He is the author of The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980 (Oklahoma, 1997). The University of Missouri in Columbia granted him a Ph.D. in history in 1991.
Donald J. Sevetson is a retired minister of the United Church of Christ. He served as conference minister of the Central Pacific Conference (Oregon and southern Idaho) of the UCC from 1980 until 1996. He is a graduate of Macalester College and Chicago Theological Seminary. He lives in Portland.
Gregory P. Shine is the chief ranger and historian at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute. He is an adjunct faculty member in the History Department at Portland State University, where he instructs graduate students in the public history field school. Greg has published studies, reports, and technical papers for the National Park Service, as well as articles for several journals, including the Oregon Historical Quarterly. A native of Indiana, Greg earned a B.A. from Wabash College and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. He lives in Portland.
Robert W. Shotola is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Portland State University where one of his specializations was sociology of the arts. He is a painter, photographer and musician.
Jeremy Skinner works in the Archives and Special Collections at Lewis & Clark College, where he has collaborated on two books and multiple articles relating to the history of publishing, including The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003) and Jefferson's Western Explorations (2004). He has an M.A. in history from Portland State University.
Courtland L. Smith is an anthropologist, educator, and scientist who studies how human values, culture, and history affect ecological and economic issues. He joined the Department of Anthropology at Oregon State University in 1969. He is the author of several articles in scientific journals and general interest publications, books, and monographs.
