The Authors of the OE
E.A. Schwartz is an associate professor at California State University, San Marcos, where he teaches American Indian history and the history of the West. He is the author of The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980 (Oklahoma, 1997). The University of Missouri in Columbia granted him a Ph.D. in history in 1991.
William R. Seaburg is Professor of Anthropology in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Bothell. His research interests include ethnohistory, the history of anthropological fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest, and Pacific Northwest Native American oral traditions. He is co-author (with Lionel Youst) of Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography (University of Oklahoma press, 2002), editor and annotator of The Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography, by Elizabeth D. Jacobs (Oregon State University Press, 2003), and editor and annotator of Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).
Donald J. Sevetson is a retired minister of the United Church of Christ. He served as conference minister of the Central Pacific Conference (Oregon and southern Idaho) of the UCC from 1980 until 1996. He is a graduate of Macalester College and Chicago Theological Seminary. He lives in Portland.
Gregory P. Shine is the chief ranger and historian at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute. He is an adjunct faculty member in the History Department at Portland State University, where he instructs graduate students in the public history field school. Greg has published studies, reports, and technical papers for the National Park Service, as well as articles for several journals, including the Oregon Historical Quarterly. A native of Indiana, Greg earned a B.A. from Wabash College and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. He lives in Portland.
Robert W. Shotola is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Portland State University where one of his specializations was sociology of the arts. He is a painter, photographer and musician.
Donna Sinclair, M.A., is program manager at the Center for Columbia River History and president of the Northwest Oral History Association. She has worked as an independent historian since the late 1990s. In addition to researching and writing histories of Arlington Club and the Fort Vancouver National Site, she has served as oral historian for the Oregon Historical Society, Reed College, and the U.S. District Court of Oregon. She is currently in the PSU Urban Studies Ph.D. program. Her research areas are policy and narrative theory and method.
Jeremy Skinner works in the Archives and Special Collections at Lewis & Clark College, where he has collaborated on two books and multiple articles relating to the history of publishing, including The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003) and Jefferson's Western Explorations (2004). He has an M.A. in history from Portland State University.
Courtland L. Smith is an anthropologist, educator, and scientist who studies how human values, culture, and history affect ecological and economic issues. He joined the Department of Anthropology at Oregon State University in 1969. He is the author of several articles in scientific journals and general interest publications, books, and monographs.
Dale Soden currently is a Professor of History at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He received his undergraduate degree in history from Pacific Lutheran University and his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in American Intellectual History. He has taught at Whitworth since 1985 after teaching at both Oklahoma Baptist University and Pacific Lutheran. He has published numerous articles on the history of the Pacific Northwest as well as the biography The Reverend Mark Matthews: Activist in the Progressive Era (University of Washington Press, 2001), and Historic Photos of Washington State (Turner Publishing, 2008).
Adam M. Sowards is assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho. He has published several articles on Northwest environmental history, United States West Coast: An Environmental History (ABC-CLIO, 2007), and a biography of William O. Douglas entitled The Environmental Justice (Oregon State University Press, 2009).
