Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 82, number 1, autumn, 1998

              Contributors
John D. Buenker spent the first twenty-two years of his life in Dubuque, Iowa, gazing across the Mississippi at southwestern Wisconsin. He has spent the last twenty-seven years observing the state from its southern¬ most corner while teaching United States history at UW-Parkside in Ke¬ nosha. In between, he earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University and taught at state universities in Maryland and Illinois. He regularly offers courses in the history ofWlsconsin and ofthe Progressive Era, as well as in urban and ethnic history. Besides The History of Wisconsin, Volume FV, he has published five other books and over two dozen articles on the Progressive Era. He still, however, roots for the Iowa Hawkeves.
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David Builer Johnson, a native of Madison, is a third-generation UW faculty member. His grandfather, John Butler Johnson, was the first dean ofthe engineering school and his aunt, Laura Butler Johnson, was a pro¬ fessor of French. David Johnson attended Wisconsin High School. He graduated from Antioch College in 1942. After service in WW II he worked briefly for the National Labor Relations Board before starting graduate work in the UW Department of Economics, receiving his Ph.D. degree under Edwin Witte in 1955, while working for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. Returning to the university in 1957, he taught in the economics department until his retirement in 1988. During that period he was chairman of the department for three years, dean of internatit:)nal studies and programs for eight years, and director of the Industrial Relations Research Institute and the C^^enter for Development for shorter periods. He continues lo reside in Madi¬ son where he is an active labor arbitrator.
Tim Matthewson received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cal¬ ifornia al Santa Barbara in 1976. Since that lime he has pursued careers as a professor and curator, editor and museum director as well as mid- level government manager at the National Endowment for the LIu- manilies. He currently operates a business. The Patent Company of Ar¬ lington, Virginia, which offers patent and trademark services. His publications on history have appeared in a variety of academic journals, most recently, an essay on 'Jefferson and Haiti" in the fournal cf South¬ ern History (1995) and 'Jefferson and the Nonrecognition of Haiti" in the American Philosophical Society's Proceedings (1996).