Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer Twin Cities (2010), and co-editor of “Queer Futures,” a special issue of the Radical History Review (2008).

Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (2009).