The Authors of the OE
Kimberley Mangun is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah. She is a journalism historian who studies the African American press in the West and representations of race, ethnicity, and gender in newspapers published during the nineteenth century. Her book about Beatrice Morrow Cannady, a civil rights activist who lived in Portland from 1912 until 1936, will be published in 2010 by Oregon State University Press. Dr. Mangun has had other articles published in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and American Journalism. She received her doctorate from the University of Oregon.
Joy Margheim is a graduate student in urban studies at Portland State University.
Judith Margles is the Executive Director of the Oregon Jewish Museum. Previously she served as the Curator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. She has consulted on exhibit projects for many institutions in the Portland area, including the First Unitarian Church, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Fair Housing Council of Oregon, Linfield College of Nursing, Oregon Historical Society, and Oregon Area Jewish Committee. She is a member of the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, serves on the board of the Old Town History Project, and is President-Elect of the Council of American Jewish Museums.
Steve Mark is the author of Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam’s Legacy in the State and National Parks (University of California Press, 2005) and other publications on the history of conservation. He is currently at work on a book about state parks, particularly those on the Oregon Coast, as a study of how such landscapes are perceived, used, and promoted.
Kevin R. Marsh is associate professor and graduate program director in the history department at Idaho State University in Pocatello. He is the author of Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest, the most thorough study to date of wilderness history in Oregon and Washington. He is the editor of Idaho Yesterdays, the scholarly journal of the Idaho State Historical Society, and a board member of the Idaho Humanities Council. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Marsh has taught Northwest history at several universities in the region.
Irene Martin was born in England and raised in Canada. She came to the U.S. in 1973. She is the author of Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River Gillnetters and The Beach of Heaven: A History of Wahkiakum County, both published by Washington State University Press. Her other titles include Lewis and Clark in the Land of the Wahkiakums (Scrubjay, 2003) and Sea Fire, Tales of Jesus and Fishing (Crossroads, 2003). She has also written many articles on fisheries and Northwest history. Her awards include the James B. Castles Heritage Award and the Washington Governor's Heritage Award.
Maryann Mason has taught history and English in the Midwest, Northwest, and Bolivia. She lives in Ashland, where she writes history spots for local public radio, interviews mystery writers for RVTV Noir, and edits personal and family histories. Her poetry has appeared in Sweet Annie & Sweet Pea Review (1999), Rain Magazine (2007), and The Third Reader, An Online Journal of Literary Fiction and Poetry. In 2008, she published Ravelings, her first chapbook.
Wendell Maxey is a freelance writer who has covered the NBA and other sports for the past six years from New York and New Jersey to Portland. Wendell currently contributes to USA TODAY and SLAM Online/SLAM Magazine. An active member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, he's been featured with FOXSports.com, NBA.com, NCAA.com, the Reno Gazette-Journal and formerly penned a column on the Portland Trail Blazers for the now defunct Portland Sentinel. A 2003 graduate of Portland State University, Wendell possesses a BS in Liberal Studies. For more writing by Wendell Maxey, please visit his website at www.beyondthebeat.net.
Heike Mayer is an associate professor of urban planning at Virginia Tech in Alexandria. In 2003, she received her Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University with a dissertation that examined the role of Tektronix and Intel in the evolution of the Silicon Forest, Portland’s high-technology cluster. In her research, she examines the growth of high-technology industries in so-called second-tier regions such as Portland, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho.
Scott McArthur, Monmouth author and retired lawyer, worked with Ben Maxwell on the staff of the Salem Capital Journal from 1959 to 1964. McArthur was raised in Tacoma. He is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound, University of Oregon, and Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. He practiced law for 40 years, and before that taught in the public schools and at Mt. Angel College, and was a writer for the Capital Journal, Albany Democrat-Herald, Associated Press and United Press International. McArthur is the author of three self-published local history books, one of them a collection of Ben Maxwell's writings.
