The Authors of the OE
Ulrich H. Hardt has been at the Graduate School of Education, Portland State University, since 1974, teaching and serving as department chair and associate dean. He is past president of the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, editor of the Oregon English Journal and managing editor of the Oregon Literature Series. He serves as co-editor-in-chief of The Oregon Encyclopedia.
John Harrison is the Information Officer for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, a compact of the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington that conducts energy and fish and wildlife recovery planning. As Information Officer, Harrison writes and edits Council publications and also is the news media contact. Prior to the Council, he was a newspaper reporter and editor. He is the author of an almanac-style history of the Columbia River posted on the Council’s website at www.nwcouncil.org/history. He has a B.A. in communications from Washington State University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon.
Katharine Hart is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She moved to Portland in 2008 to attend Lewis and Clark College, where she majored in English and history. She hopes to move to the United Kingdom in the fall, to study for her masters in history.
David Hedges, a native Oregonian whose great-grandparents crossed the Plains in 1850 and 1852, is a poet, essayist, and activist. He served as president of the Oregon State Poetry Association for six years and has edited OSPA's annual anthology, Verseweavers, since 1999. He has been a board member of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission since 1988. He received the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award in 2003 for contributions to the state's literary life. In 1997 he was instrumental in preventing development of Canemah Bluff, above Willamette Falls. Currently he is leading an effort to restore Celilo Falls.
Anita Helle is associate professor of English at Oregon State University. She is the author of numerous critical articles and reviews on American women writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is the only literary scholar in the Pacific Northwest to be represented in the Norton Reader of Feminist theory and Literary Criticism (2007). She is the author of The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (University of Michigan Prss, 2007) and is the the former editor of American Literary Scholarship.
Michael Helquist received his B.A. in history from the University of Albany, State University of New York. He has edited four books on health communications and managed health promotion programs in developing countries. He has published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly and has served as a guest lecturer at the Oregon Health and Sciences University and the San Francisco Public Library. A Portland native now living in San Francisco, he is working on a biography of Dr. Marie Equi.
James V. Hillegas has an M.A. in history from Portland State University, where he specialized in twentieth-century urban environmental history and completed a thesis on early Willamette River pollution abatement efforts. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Caroline P. Stoel Editorial Fellow for the Pacific Historical Review. He completed his B.A. in 2004 from Fairhaven College, Western Washington University. He earned the Best Overall Paper at the 2004 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference, and in 2004 published an article on Interstate 5 construction through Bellingham, Washington, in the Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society.
Adam J. Hodges is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston–Clear Lake and is completing a book titled World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization. He has published articles in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Planning Perspectives.
David A. Horowitz is Professor of U.S. Cultural and Twentieth Century History at Portland State University. A founding board member of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission and the Museum of People's Art, he is the author of several works including America's Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War (2003) and The People's Voice: A populist Cultural History of Modern America (2008).
Nancy Arthur Hoskins, a former college weaving instructor, researched Coptic collections in over fifty museums. She is the author of The Coptic Tapestry Albums and the Archaeologist of Antinoé, Albert Gayet; Universal Stitches for Weaving, Embroidery, and Other Fiber Arts; Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves: Tabby to Taqueté; numerous articles; and has contributed chapters about Egyptian textiles to four other books. She has presented lectures and workshops for national and international guilds and conferences. Hoskins’ art fabrics have been in solo, group, and invitational exhibits.
