The Authors of the OE
Hope Svenson earned a B.A. from Hampshire College and a Master's of Environmental Design from Yale University. She is an architectural historian currently residing with her daughter in Northeast Portland.
Kevin Talbert, Ph.D., is Emeritus Chief Information Officer and Extended Campus Programs Director at Southern Oregon University. Along with serving on the Rogue Community College and Crater Lake Natural History Association Boards, he is a Master Gardener, Master Recycler, and Land Steward, reflecting his interest in Oregon's outdoors and his commitment to promoting sustainability.
Linda Tamura is professor of education at Willamette University and is one of three editors-in-chief of The Oregon Encyclopedia. A third-generation Japanese American, she grew up on her parents’ apple and pear orchard in Hood River. Tamura is the author of The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1993); and her most recent article received the John McClelland Award at the Washington State Historical Society. Her current research focuses on Japanese American World War II veterans.
Janet Tapper, MLS, is the Director of Learning Resources at Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon, and administrates the W.A. Budden Library. A graduate of the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University, she is an officer of the Medical Library Association/Chiropractic Library Section, and has served on the board of directors for the Association of College and Research Libraries in Oregon. Prior to her position at Western States, Janet operated her own information services business. She is a frequent reviewer for Library Journal.
Joseph E. Taylor III is a professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in history and geography at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fishery Crisis.
Quintard Taylor Jr., the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, received his B.A. from St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has spent more than thirty years teaching African American history in the American West. He is author of African American Women Confront the West and In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, editor of two anthologies, and the author of over fifty articles. He is on the board of History Link, the Idaho Black History Museum, and the Northwest African American Museum.
Cindy Thomas was born and raised in Woodburn, Oregon, graduating from high school in 1972. She attended college in Monmouth, Oregon; Tokyo, Japan, and Corvallis, Oregon, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education in 1977. Returning to Woodburn to live with her husband and children in 1983, she became interested in learning more about the historic Settlemier House and started volunteering to decorate for Christmas celebrations. By 1991, she was asked to be a Board Member. Today she serves as a tour guide and Vice President of the French Prairie Historical Society which owns and maintains the Historic Settlemier House.
Eckard Toy Jr. grew up in the Pacific Northwest and earned his Ph.D. in American history at the University of Oregon. Beginning with his M.A. thesis, "The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon: Its Character and Program" (1959), the Klan and related topics have been a primary focus of his research and writing. After teaching at several universities in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast, he retired to the Hood River Valley.
Clifford E.Trafzer is professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, where he is also director of Graduate Studies. He holds the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs and is on the board of the California Center for Native Nations. He has published several books, including Death Stalks the Yakama, Native Universe, and Renegade Tribe. He recently edited Native Americans/American Presidents for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Morgaine Trine is a Junior at Riverdale High school. For sophomore history, her teacher assigned this entry for the encyclopedia as a project. In the course of writing, it turned into an adventure and sparked an interest in botany.
