Crystal Brandenburgh, Social Media Editor
Crystal Brandenburgh is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University studying the interwar women’s peace movement and its role in the development of maternalist political rhetoric and organizing strategy.
James Breen, Web Editor
James Breen is a Pro-Tem Instructor with the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, studying and teaching about U.S. capitalism, conspiracies, and religious bigotry in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era.
Cole Costello, Content Editor
Cole R. Costello is a current PhD student at the University of Montana studying mining labor, Irish nationalism in America, and radical politics at the turn of the twentieth century.
Laura Crossley, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Laura Crossley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SHGAPE Blog and works as an archivist in the DC area. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University, specializing in Indigenous histories and digital history. Her research examines how Native nations used their participation in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to advance sovereignty and land rights.
Chelsea Gibson, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Chelsea is a GAPE historian with a specialty in US-Russia relations and women’s history. She is the Director of the Binghamton Codes! Program at Binghamton University. Her research examines the reception of Russian terrorist women in the United States between 1878 and 1920. She also serves on the board of the Phelps Mansion Museum, a Gilded Age museum located in Binghamton, NY.
Evan Hart, Social Media Editor
Dr. Evan Elizabeth Hart is an Assistant Professor of History at Missouri Western State University where she teaches courses on American History, Women’s History, African American History, and the History of Medicine. She specializes in the history of women’s health activism, particularly among women of color. She’s currently working on a project that examines a murder case in Missouri that combines a number of her interests: the Progressive Era, true crime, and women’s health. She also serves as the Director of Teacher Education for her department, where she helps future secondary school teachers combine sound pedagogy with a love of history.
Josh Kluever, Content Editor
Josh Kluever is an Assistant Professor of History at Marshall University. He is a political historian specializing in American Socialism and 3rd-Party Movements. His current research project explores how socialist state legislators operated in statehouses during the early 20th century.
Emily Parrow, Content Editor
Emily Parrow is an independent GAPE scholar with a background in museums and public history. She lives in Rhode Island, where she serves on the Preservation Society of Newport County’s fundraising team. Her M.A. thesis explored the physical and social evolution of nineteenth-century Newport through the eyes of social arbiter Ward McAllister. Most recently, she co-authored an article on President Chester A. Arthur.
Andrew Varsanyi, Web and Minding the GAPE Editor
Andrew Varsanyi is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studying the growth and legacy of Great Plains Populism.