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Christine Cupaiuolo, Editor & Publisher
Christine Cupaiuolo is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Chicago. Before launching PopPolitics.com in 2000, she worked as a researcher/writer for C-SPAN and as a daily news reporter. In 2002, she created MsMusings.net, Ms. magazine’s daily blog on media and culture, and later became Ms.’ online editor. Today she writes for OurBodiesOurBlog.org, among other sites. She’s pleased that Putnam Valley, N.Y. hasn’t changed since she covered town meetings.
Bernie Heidkamp
Bernie Heidkamp teaches cultural studies and literature to high school students in Chicago. He speaks frequently on media literacy and blogging in the classroom. Besides his regular contributions to the blog, longer cultural criticism at PopPolitics includes “Now Rolling …,” one of the first analyses of the pop culture filter through which Americans viewed the 9/11 attacks, and “Just When Men Thought They Were Out,” a look at the modern crisis in masculinity as represented in “The Sopranos” and recent presidential campaigns.
Richard C. Crepeau
Richard Crepeau is a history professor at the University of Central Florida, where he teaches American sport history, 20th century U.S. history and American cultural history. He is the author of “Baseball: America’s Diamond Mind, 1914-1941” (Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press). He has published both academic and more popular articles on sport, sport literature, politics and popular culture.
Jesse Miksic
Jesse Miksic is a dedicated cultural participant living in Brooklyn. A graphic designer by day, he is pursing a master’s degree in media studies from New School University. He spends the rest of his time writing fiction and criticism, taking photographs and enjoying the cultural labyrinth of the five boroughs. He maintains miksimum.com for his writing and art, and he posts his occasional political rants at BlogCritics.org.
Laura Fokkena
Laura Fokkena lives in Boston, where she is doing graduate work in International and Comparative Education, focusing on Muslim youth subcultures. She has written for a variety of publications in the U.S. and the Middle East.
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