Dr. Daniel Feller

Professor Feller's scholarly interests encompass mid-nineteenth-century America as a whole, with special attention to Jacksonian politics and the coming of the Civil War. He has contributed to numerous historical reference works, including the Oxford Companion to United States History, the Reader's Guide to American History, the Dictionary of American History, and American National Biography. His critical essays and review articles have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic, Reviews in American History, and Documentary Editing. Professor Feller has been active in the Association for Documentary Editing, the Southern Historical Association, British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH), and especially the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), where he serves as Conference Coordinator for its annual summer meeting. In 2000 he was a Commonwealth Fund Lecturer in American History at University College London. He is currently at work on a biography of Benjamin Tappan, a Jacksonian politician, scientist, social reformer, and freethinker.

Dr. Feller at the University of Tennessee Department of History

Dr. Tom Coens

Tom Coens joined the Papers of Andrew Jackson as an assistant editor in 2004.  He received his bachelor’s degree in history from Yale in 1996, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004.  Dr. Coens wrote a dissertation at Harvard entitled “The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822-1825,” which he is currently turning into a book.  Before graduate school, Dr. Coens worked for a time at the University of Michigan as Coordinator of Technical Operations for JSTOR, the web-archive of scholarly journals.

Dr. Tom Coens' Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Laura-Eve Moss

Laura-Eve Moss joined the Jackson Papers staff in 2004 as an assistant editor.  She holds graduate degrees in History and Public History, and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut.  Her research focuses on the political and constitutional history of nineteenth-century America, with a special interest in evolving notions of citizenship and democratic participation.  She was formerly the managing editor of The Encyclopedia of New York State (2005).

Dr. Laura-Eve Moss' Curriculum Vitae

Vicki Rozema

Vicki Rozema received a B.S. in Secondary Education/Mathematics in 1975 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author/editor of three books on Cherokee history: Voices from the Trail of Tears, (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2003,) Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East, (Blair, 2002,) and Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation, (Blair, 1995,) which received an Award of Merit from the Tennessee Historical Commission. She is the author of several historical articles including “Chattanooga During the Cherokee Removal,” (Chattanooga Regional Historical Journal, December 2006) and “Sam Houston: The Blue Ridge Mountain Years”, (Blue Ridge Country, November 1997). She is currently pursuing an M. A. in U. S. History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she is a graduate research assistant in the Center for Jacksonian America.