Joseph G. Dawson III is Professor of History at Texas AM University, College Station. He served as Director of the university’s Military Studies Institute from 1986 to 2000. His published work deals with mid-nineteenth- century American military history, including the U.S.–Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He is author of Army Generals and Reconstruction (1982), Doniphan’s Epic March The st Missouri Volunteer Regiment in the Mexican War (1999), and journal articles and book chapters on the U.S. Marine Corps and the Navy. Susan-Mary Grantis Professor of American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her publications include North over South Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (1999) and The War for a Nation The American Civil War (2006), as well as a range of articles on antebellum America and on the development of American nationalism in the Civil War era in Nations and Nationalism and the Journal of American Studies. In 2007 she gave the British Academy Sarah Tryphena Phillips lecture in American History, Reconstructing the National Body Masculinity, 380 • Notes on Contributors
Disability and Race in the American Civil War Proceedings of the British Academy (2008). A cofounder of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), she is the editor of American Nineteenth Century History.
