Robin D. G. Kelley, History Department, New York University

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of History and Africana Studies and Chair, Department of History at New York University. His research interests include U.S. and African American history, African diaspora, urban studies; working class radicalism and cultural history with an emphasis on music. His most recent book is Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002) and Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank (Beacon Press,
2001)

Katherine Ott, Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Katherine Ott is curator at the National Museum of American History. Her research interests include history of the body, disability, ethnic and folk medicine, integrative and alternative medicine, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and dermatology, prosthetics and rehabilitation, sexuality; visual and material culture and ephemera. Her most recent books are Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics with David Serlin and Stephen Mihm (New York University Press, 2002) and Fevered Lives, Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870 (Harvard, 1996).