Encyclopedia of the Midwest

Authors

Richard Sisson is Provost and Professor of Political Science Emeritus at The Ohio State University where he held the Board of Trustees Chair in Comparative Politics. He was also a member of the faculty at UCLA for twenty-five years and served as Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. His more recent books include War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh (with Leo E. Rose); The Evolution of Political Knowledge (in two volumes—Theory and Inquiry in American Politics and Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics) (edited with Edward D. Mansfield); and Ohio and the World, 1753–2053: Essays toward a New History of Ohio (edited with Geoffrey Parker and William Russell Coil).

Christian Zacher is Professor of English at Ohio State University and Director of its Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. A scholar of medieval English literature, he is author or co-editor of various essays and books on medieval literature and culture, including Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (edited with Donald R. Howard), The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (edited with James Dean), and Curiosity and Pilgrimage. He brings to the encyclopedia a longtime resident’s knowledge of the Midwest and experience as an organizer of multiyear projects and multi-volume editorial enterprises.

Andrew Cayton is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500– 2000 (with Fred Anderson); Frontier Indiana; Ohio: The History of a People; The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region (edited with Peter S. Onuf); and The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History (edited with Susan E. Gray).