The Common Reader contributors

Josh Aiken is currently a JD and PhD student in African-American Studies and History at Yale. He is the former Policy Fellow at the Prison Policy Initiative and Researcher-in-Residence at Artspace New Haven. Aiken received an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and MSt in American History from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude with his BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Michael R. Allen is senior lecturer in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design and lecturer in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as director of the Preservation Research Office.

Iver Bernstein is professor of history, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Patrick Burke is associate professor and chair of music at Washington University in St. Louis.

David Cunningham is professor and chair of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis.

John Early is a senior lecturer in the College of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and serves as the director of Portfolio Plus, a pre-college summer program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Douglas Flowe is an assocciate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nicole Fox is an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University Sacramento. Christina Simko is an associate professor of sociology at Williams College.

Matthew Fox-Amato is an associate professor of history at the University of Idaho.

Patty Heyda is associate professor of urban design and architecture at Washington University in St. Louis

Jonathan Karp graduated 2015 from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently a PhD student in Harvard’s Program in American Studies.

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Maffly-Kipp also serves as the Interim Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Washington University in St. Louis.

Heidi Aronson Kolk is assistant professor in the Sam Fox School of Design and assistant vice provost of academic assessment at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jasmine Mahmoud is assistant professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies, with an affiliation in art history, at the University of Washington.

Beth Miller is senior engineering writer and communications specialist in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Eric Sandweiss is Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History at Indiana University.

Christina Simko is an associate professor of sociology at Williams College.

Sylvia Sukop completed her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis in 2018, and was awarded the Senior Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2018-2019. She is former director of the Summer Writers Institute at Washington University, and served for three years on its faculty. Named an Olin Fellow in 2021, she is currently a PhD student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, with a research interest in public memory and memorialization.