The Authors of the OE
Andrew G. Fountain is a professor of geology and geography at Portland State University. He has studied glaciers since 1980, when he first joined the U.S. Geological Survey in Tacoma, Washington. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, he joined the USGS National Research Program in Denver before returning to the Northwest in 1993. Fountain has studied glaciers in the Arctic and is currently working in Antarctica. He has studied glacier change in the American West for the past three years.
James Fox was special collections librarian at University of Oregon's Knight Library from 1989 to 1993. After a seven-year stint at the University of Michigan, he returned to Eugene and since 2000 has been the head of Special Collections and University Archives. He has served on the editorial boards of the Oregon State University Press and the Knight Library Press. He is an avid flyfisher who plies Oregon's mountain and coastal streams at every opportunity.
Megan K. Friedel is an archivist and historian who has worked as photo archivist at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Oregon Historical Society, where she curated the exhibition, Carleton Watkins: Stereoviews of the Columbia River Gorge, and co-authored, with Terry Toedtemeier, an award-winning article on Watkins's stereo photography of the river in 1867. She is currently Archivist and Assistant Professor of Library Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage and holds a B.A. from Amherst College, as well as an M.A. in History and an M.S. in Library and Information Sciences, both from Simmons College.
Elaine S. Friedman is the author of The Facts of Life in Portland, Oregon (1993) as well as several articles on librarianship. Before moving to Portland, she worked as a librarian at the University of Michigan Graduate Library and the Princeton University Computing Center. In Oregon, she served as a data administrator for the Center for Urban Education and as head librarian for Ater Wynne LLP. She is currently a freelance writer and researcher.
Ann Fulton is an intellectual and social historian with extensive experience in public history. Her projects include Historic American Buildings Survey-Timberline Lodge, prepared for the National Park Service and the Forest Service (1995); Historic Features Report for SR 14 Corridor Management Plan (1997), prepared for the Washington Department of Transportation; and Columbia County Historic Context Statement and Site Inventories (1998), prepared for the State Historic Preservation Office of Oregon. Her work has also appeared in American Indian Quarterly. Fulton is currently learning about the oral tradition of Pacific Northwest indigenous peoples while teaching at Portland State University.
Barbara Conway Gaines, Ed.D RN is a professor emeritus at Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Nursing. Gaines wrote Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Nursing: A History of the School 1910-1996 (2000) and "Elnora Thompson in Bullough," Vern and Sentz Lilli eds, American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary (1999). She is active in the American Association for the History of Nursing, currently serving on the strategic planning committee.
Shawna Gandy is an independent scholar specializing in social and religious history. Her first book is on the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and fur-trade families in Oregon (forthcoming). Gandy was an archivist at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, where she worked since 1996. She received bachelor's degrees from the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree in history from Portland State University.
Linda Ganzini, MD, MPH, graduated from Roseburg High School in 1974. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale University and her medical degree from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), where she subsequently completed residency training in psychiatry and geriatric medicine. She is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and Senior Scholar at the Center on Ethics in Health Care, all at OHSU. She is also Director of Health Services Research at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Mary Gardiner is a longtime resident of Ashland and a former neighbor of Florence and Bill Schneider. Florence served as a mentor in their early relationship and encouraged her to become involved with the museum. Mary joined the staff of the Schneider Museum of Art in 1994, as community programs coordinator and finished working at the museum in 2009 after serving as acting administrative director for seven years. She has a B.S. in education from the University of Oregon.
Tim Alan Garrison is professor of history at Portland State University. He is the author of The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations and several articles on the history of the Indian Removal crisis. He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law.
