BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 Michael D. Bowen hails from Kingsport, Tennessee, and received his B.S. in

public relations and history and his M.A. in history from East Tennessee State

University. While at Florida, he served as president of the Graduate Student Council,

founding president of the History Graduate Society, and a student senator. He is a

member of the Southern Historical Association, the American Historical Association,

the Organization of American Historians, and the Social Science History Association.

He has delivered numerous conference papers at the Tennessee Conference of

Historians, the Ohio Valley Historical Association, and the Social Science History

Association. He has two published articles and currently serves as the book review

editor for H-Pol, the listserv for American political history.