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Steven Lubar (Steven_Lubar@brown.edu) is Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center and Professor in the Department of American Civilization. Recent work includes Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian (Smithsonian Press, 2001; see http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/) and “America on the Move” at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. His interests include the history of museums and memorials, material culture studies, and cultural theory in the study of history of technology. For more detail, see the Department of American Civilization site, or visit his blog at museumblog.blogspot.com.

Ron M. Potvin (Ronald_Potvin@brown.edu) is Assistant Director and Curator of the John Nicholas Brown Center, with responsibility for budget, administration, and museum and archival collections. His museum experience includes working with fine arts, manuscripts, exhibitions, collections management, and historic sites. He serves as co-chair of the New England Museum Association's Curators' Committee and is a board member of the American Association of Museums Curator's Committee. His interests include historic house museums; 18th century Newport furniture makers; and 19th century social and religious movements.

Anne M. Valk (Anne_Valk@Brown.edu) is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Center. A historian by training, her interests include oral history, local history, women's history, and African American history. She has worked extensively on community oral history projects in the Midwest and the South, examining experiences of immigration, industrialization and deindustrialization, and racial segregation. Her book, Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, DC, will be published by the University of Illinois Press in 2008.

Chelsea Shriver (Chelsea_Shriver@Brown.edu) is Administrative Coordinator of the John Nicholas Brown Center. She has been at Brown since February 2004, and previously worked in the Office of Public Affairs and University Relations. Her responsibilities include providing support to the director and assistant director and managing the daily administrative duties of the program office.