The Authors of the OE
Robert Bunting is professor of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. A fourth-generation Oregonian, he has written numerous publications on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, including The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900 (University of Kansas, 1997), an article in The American West: Environmental Problems in America's Garden of Eden (Taylor & Francis, 2001), the introduction to Urling C. Coe’s Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon & the Changing West (OSU Press, 1996), and articles in Environmental History Review and Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Casey Bush is an administrator in the research department of the Legacy Health System. He is a well-known Portland poet. Casey is the senior editor of poetry and book reviews for The Bear Deluxe, an environmental arts magazine. He is also nonfiction editor for the on-line magazine www.writersdojo.org.
Virginia L. Butler is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. Her research focus is zooarchaeology, the study of animal remains from archaeological sites, which she uses to examine long-term relationships between people and fish. Her interest in Cressman stems from her 1980s dissertation research investigating the salmon bones from The Dalles Roadcut site, which he excavated in the 1950s. Her geographic focus is western North America. She has published papers in a range of journals including American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of World Prehistory, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Quaternary Research, and Ecology and Society.
Kelly Cannon-Miller graduated with an M.A. in History from Portland State University in 1994 with a thesis on Fort Clatsop National Memorial. Her career in cultural resource management and museums has taken her from the Oregon Historical Society as a graduate intern through the National Park Service, the museum exhibit design firm Formations, Inc., and the High Desert Museum. She is currently the executive director for the Deschutes County Historical Society in Bend.
Suzanne Clark, a professor of modern literature at the University of Oregon, is an expert on twentieth-century American literature and culture. Her work on Bernard Malamud has appeared in American Scholar, and she is the author of Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. Currently, she is working with David Frank on a manuscript on rhetoric and leadership, a study of University of Oregon president Robert D. Clark, who was the chief administrator there during the protest years and the early 1970s.
Robin Cody was born in St. Helens and raised in Estacada. A freelance writer, he has been a high school English teacher, a dean of admissions at Reed College, a baseball umpire, a basketball referee, and a school bus driver. The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission in 2005 picked his novel, Ricochet River, as one of the 100 essential Oregon books. His Voyage of a Summer Sun won the Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction in 1996.
Philip Cogswell Jr. is a retired associate editor of the Oregonian. During his thirty-two-year career with the newspaper, he held various writing and editing positions, including Washington, D.C., correspondent, forum section editor, and deputy editorial page editor. During the summer of 1963, he was a congressional intern for Rep. Edith Green.
Scott Cohen completed his M.A. in history at Portland State University. His current research focuses on the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and on Portland's transportation history. He currently works on transportation management and policy development at the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Cary Collins teaches Pacific Northwest history to ninth graders at Tahoma Junior High School in Ravensdale, Washington. He is the editor of Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System, by Edwin L. Chalcraft, and with SuAnn Reddick is writing a history of the Isaac Stevens treaties.
Fred Crafts is a Eugene arts consultant and national award-winning arts writer. He worked as fine arts editor of the Los Angeles Times and arts editor of the Eugene Register-Guard.
