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working with Scott Frisch on a book, based on archival data, about the politics of congressional appropriations earmarks.
Michael Lotstein is an arrangement and description archivist at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library and holds an MA from Arizona State University. He has been a practicing archivist since 2006 and has worked on a variety of political collections, including the papers of Senator Carl T. Hayden, Congressman John J. Rhodes, and Congressman Bob Stump, each of which documents the growth and development of the western United States in the twentieth century. He is currently overseeing the processing of manuscript collections related to the history of Yale University and greater Connecticut.
David C. W. Parker is an assistant professor of political science at Montana State University–Bozeman and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He utilized archival materials in his book The Power of Money in Congressional Campaigns, 1880–2006 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press) to debunk the notion that party-centered campaigns disappeared from American politics in the mid-twentieth century. Dr. Parker has published articles in Legislative Studies Quarterly and Congress and the Presidency on congressional investigations and the use of congressional office resources to create particular constituent impressions. In addition to his continuing research in these areas, he is currently writing a book on senators who lose reelection using—what else—archival materials.
Tracy Roof is an associate professor of political science at the University of Richmond. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines the influence of organized labor in the American legislative process and the role of institutions in shaping American public policies. She used archival research to explore labor’s lobbying on full employment policy, health care reform, labor law reform, and the reform of congressional procedures. Dr. Roof is the author of American Labor, Congress, and the Welfare State, 1935–2010 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) as well as various articles on organized labor’s