Biographical note

Tim Alan Garrison (Ph.D., History, University of Kentucky; J.D., University of Georgia) is a professor of history at Portland State University, where he teaches courses in American legal and constitutional history and Native American history. He is the author of The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations and several journal articles and book chapters on the history of the Indian Removal Crisis of the 1830s. He also edited the 2-volume Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law for CQ Press. His book, Before the Paper Chase: The Scholarship of Prelaw Preparation and Admissions, will be published in 2010 by Carolina Academic Press. Garrison offers a two-course series on the history of crime and punishment, and his interest in developing this new reference work comes from his own personal desire to have a document collection that he can use to supplement his lectures on the subject. Garrison practiced law for several years in Georgia. Victoria Belco (Ph.D., History & J.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an assistant professor of history at Portland State University. She was a central staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after law school, then an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California in San Francisco for seven years. As a historian, she received an Ehrman Fellowship, a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Stanford University. She has been a visiting fellow in the Department of History & Civilization at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Florence). Most recently, she was awarded a Fulbright grant to Italy as a Senior Research Scholar for the 2009-2010 academic year to study crime and criminal justice in Fascist Italy. Belco has taught law school Evidence and undergraduate courses on Crime & Criminal Procedure; Trials, Vengeance, & Justice; and Trials as History. Her teaching interests include late modern European history, war and society, and history and film. Professor Belco's recent book, War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 (University of Toronto Press) draws on a variety of archival sources to examine how ordinary Italians survived the traumas of war and coped with postwar aftermath and reconstruction as aspirations for social change competed with the desire to return to normal life.