The Authors of the OE
Adam M. Sowards is assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho. He has published several articles on Northwest environmental history, United States West Coast: An Environmental History (ABC-CLIO, 2007), and a biography of William O. Douglas entitled The Environmental Justice (Oregon State University Press, 2009).
Mark Spence is an independent scholar living in Albany, Oregon. He is the author of Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (Oxford, 1999) and co-editor of Lewis and Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives (California, 2004).
Nicholas Starin has a history degree from the University of Oregon and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from PSU. He works for the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability as a historic resources planner. in 2008, he co-authored the National Historic Landmark nomination for Portland's Skidmore/Old Town Historic District. He has a passion for historical bibliography and is forever compiling bibliographies for the history and architecture of Portland and Oregon.
Harry H. Stein is an independent scholar, consulting historian and former college professor. He has written Gus J. Solomon: Liberal Politics, Jews, and the Federal Courts (2006), collaborated on Merchants, Money and Power: The Portland Establishment, 1843-1913 (1988), co-edited Muckraking: Past, Present and Future (1973), and authored pictorial histories of Portland and Salem, corporate histories and historical articles on Lincoln Steffens, muckraking, the Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, and other subjects. He is currently writing a history of the Oregonian.
Susan Stelljes is the author of Wonder Dog, the Story of Silverton Bobbie (2001). She discovered the story of Bobbie while doing volunteer work on the archives of the Oregon Humane Society. She is involved with Silverton's annual Bobbie Day (February 15) to commemorate Bobbie's return to Silverton, and is a judge for the Bobbie Look-a-Like contest held before the Silverton Pet Parade the third Saturday in May. Susan lives in Portland. She is currently working on a novel.
Michael Strelow teaches English and American Studies at Willamette University. His 2005 ecological novel, The Greening of Ben Brown from Hawthorne Books, was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award of the Oregon Literary Arts. His poetry and fiction have appeared in a number of literary magazines including The Bellingham Review, Willow Spring, Hubbub, Kansas Quarterly, Sou'wester and others. His new novel, The Moby-Dick Blues, is nearing completion. More information about writing projects, prose pieces, etc. is available at http://www.michaelstrelow.com .
Bernadine Strik is an Extension Berry Crops Professor of Horticulture at Oregon State University and the Berry Research Leader at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center, OSU.
Gerald Sussman is professor of urban studies at Portland State University and is the author of Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age (Sage) and Global Electioneering: Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing (Rowman & Littlefield).
Linda Tamura is professor of education at Willamette University and is one of three editors-in-chief of The Oregon Encyclopedia. A third-generation Japanese American, she grew up on her parents’ apple and pear orchard in Hood River. Tamura is the author of The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1993); and her most recent article received the John McClelland Award at the Washington State Historical Society. Her current research focuses on Japanese American World War II veterans.
Janet Tapper, MLS, is the Director of Learning Resources at Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon, and administrates the W.A. Budden Library. A graduate of the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University, she is an officer of the Medical Library Association/Chiropractic Library Section, and has served on the board of directors for the Association of College and Research Libraries in Oregon. Prior to her position at Western States, Janet operated her own information services business. She is a frequent reviewer for Library Journal.
