Bios of the Paper Presenters, Commentators and Chairs Katherine Aaslestad is Associate Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University. Her main re- search interests are modern German and European history, including gender in modern Europe since 1750 and north Germany during the revolutionary era. She has published articles on such themes as nineteenth-century German political culture, gender and consumption, civic republi- canism, and the experience and memory of war. Her articles have appeared in The Proceed- ings from the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe and Central European History. Her mono- graph, Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Ger- many during the Revolutionary Era, in the series Studies in Central European Histories, ap- peared in 2005 with Brill Press. Together with Karen Hagemann she edited the Special Issue of the Journal Central European History 39:4 (2006): Collaboration, Resistances and Reform: Ex- periences and Memories of the Napoleonic Wars in Central Europe. Dirk Bönker is Assistant Professor at Duke University, specializing in the military history of the Western world. His research interests focus on militarism, warfare, and geopolitics in Germany and the United States since 1870. He is currently preparing a book-length study of navalism, militariza- tion, and empire in these two countries before World War I. His publications include: "Military History, Militarization, and the ‘American Century’," Zeithistorische Forschungen 2:1 (2005); "Admiration, Enmity, and Cooperation: U.S. Navalism and the British and German Empires be- fore the Great War," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2:1 (2001). 2 Matthew Brown is Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. His main fields of teaching and research are national identity in Latin America; travel and adventure in Hispanic American literature; Colombia, 1800-2000. His current research project focuses on the battle of El Santu- ario, in Colombia in 1829, where the valiant patriotic hero José María Córdoba was assassi- nated in cold blood by Rupert Hand, a villainous Irish mercenary in the service of Simón Bolívar’s Colombian state. His publications include: Adventuring through the Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations in Gran Colombia (Liverpool, 2006), co-editor of Militares extranjeros en la independencia de Colombia: Nuevas perspectivas (Bogotá, 2005). He is currently editing a collection of essays on British informal empire in Latin America in the long nineteenth century. Chad Bryant is Assistant Professor of East European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include nationalism, state practices, and the politics of everyday life in modern Eastern Europe. He is also interested in Czech-German relations during World War I and the history of travel to, from, and within Eastern Europe. His forthcoming book examines Nazi rule and nationality politics in the occupied Czech lands from 1939 to 1945. Two articles on the subject appeared in the Winter 2002 issues of Slavic Review and Kudej, a Czech-language journal of cultural history. A related research project resulted in "Whose Na- tion? Czech Dissidents and History Writing from a Post-1989 Perspective,“ History and Memory 12:1 (2000). Thomas Cardoza is Professor of Humanities at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His main field of teaching and research is Early Modern and Modern French history. He is currently work- ing on a research project treating “Enfants de troupe,” children of cantinières and soldiers who were officially enrolled as “children of the regiment.” He recently completed a monograh entitled, Cantinières and Vivandères of the French Army, 1750-1906. His articles include: “Exceeding the Needs of the Service: the French Army and the Suppression of Female Auxiliaries 1871-1906,” War and Society 20:1 (2002); "These Unfortunate Children: Sons and Daughters of the Regi- ment in the French Army, 1789-1815," in James Marten, ed., Children and War: an Anthology (New York, 2002); and “Stepchildren of the State: Educating Enfants de Troupe in the French Army 1800-1845,” Paedagocica Historica 37:3 (2001). 3 D’Ann Campbell is the Director of Foundation and Government Relations of the Coast Guard Foundation and Director of American History Projects, Inc. Her first book, Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era, was published by Harvard University Press in 1984; her co-edited refer- ence work, Americans at War (New York, 2005), was named “Best Reference Book of 2005” by American Library Association. She has written over a dozen articles on servicewomen in WW II including "Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the U.S., England, Germany and U.S.S.R," Journal of Military History 57 (1993), which was awarded the Moncado Prize of the Society of Military History for "Best Article.” Sarah Chambers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores political culture and citizenship during Spanish America’s transition from colonialism to independence. She is currently writing a book on the intersections of family and politics in Chile from about 1780 to 1860. She is also beginning a new research project into migrations spurred by the wars of independence in South America that will trace the paths of internal refugees, political exiles, royalist émigrés and consider how these movements, and their gendered nature, affected the formation of new national identities. Her publications include: From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854 (Penn State, 1999); (Co-editor with Sueann Caulfield and Lara Putnam), Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America (Durham, 2005). “Masculine Virtues and Feminine Passions: Gender and Race in the Republicanism of Simón Bolívar,” Hispanic Research Journal 7:1 (2006); “Letters and Salons: Women Reading and Writ- ing the Nation in the Nineteenth Century,” in Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writ- ing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Eds. John C. Chasteen and Sara Castro- Klaren (Washington, 2003) Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in British history, including Irish history, and the history of the British Empire. Her main fields of research are British working class history, the study of scandals and high politics in the eighteenth century, and more recently the relationship of the state, gender, and empire in the nineteenth century Britain. Her publica- tions include: The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (Berkeley, 1995); The History of Suffrage (co-edited with Sarah Richardson et al, 2000, reprinted sources); Scandal: the Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (Princeton, 2003); Her current projects are "Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe," a work intended for the general reader and students, and “Engendering the British State”, a research project on the poor law, imperialism, the franchise, and criminal law in nineteenth-century British imperial history. 4 Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Brit- ish Academy. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and her teaching ex- amines Britain’s past in a broader European, imperial, and global context. Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (London, 1982); Namier (New York, 1988); Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London, 1992) which won the Wolfson Prize; Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 (London, 2002), which has been the subject of Con- ferences in London, Paris, and Tasmania, and the forthcoming The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007). In addition to articles in scholarly journals, she writes regularly on history and politics for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and the London Guard- ian. Elizabeth Colwill is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. Her main field of teaching and research are European cultural history, Women's history, and the intersecting his- tories of gender, sexuality and colonialism from 1700. She is currently working on a manuscript on gender, ritual, and slave emancipation in revolutionary Saint Domingue. An essay drawn from this research entitled “Fêtes de l’hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony and Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793,” is forthcoming in The Haitian Revolution: 200 Years After, edited by David Geggus and Norman Fiering. Her published work includes "Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution," repr. in Marie- Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman (London, 2003); “Subjectivity, Self-Representation, and the Revealing Switches of Biography,” in French Historical Studies 24:3 (2001); “Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845,” The Journal of Women’s History 12:3 (2000); "Women's Empire" and the Sover- eignty of Man in La Décade philosophique, 1770-1807," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29:3 (1996). Christopher Dandeker is Professor of Military Sociology in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) and a mem- ber of its Council. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal Armed Forces and Society and Vice-President of the Research Committee, Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution of the Inter- national Sociological Association. Current Research and Consultancy Projects his work focuses on all aspects of civil-military relations, broadly conceived. He has a particular interest in per- sonnel issues in the contemporary armed forces of Europe and North America. His most recent work has concerned strategic personnel policy in the UK, the evolution of British military culture 5 and current developments in the Swedish defence forces.