PHR Editorial Staff

Marc Simon Rodriguez, Editor

Rodriguez is a leading scholar in the field of Mexican American/Chicano history. He is the author of Rethinking the Chicano Movement (2014) and The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin (2011), which won the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies' Texas Nonfiction Book Award. He is also the editor of Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community (2004) and a coeditor, with Anthony Grafton, of Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective (2007). 

Before joining the faculty of Portland State University, Rodriguez taught at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and Indiana University South Bend, where he served as Director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center. 

Brenda D. Frink, Associate Editor

Frink has over a decade of experience working in print and online publishing, in editing, marketing, and project management roles. Frink is an historian of the U.S. West, specializing in race, gender, and historical memory.

She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.A. from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

Charles Dawn-William Huxley, Caroline P. Stoel Editorial Fellow

Charles Dawn-William Huxley is a M.A. student at PSU in the history program. He studies public history with a focus on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Pacific Northwest and the environment. His research objective is to study how social issues play out through cemeteries and death spaces. Charles also has a deep love for storytelling and has dreams to develop a passion project that analyzes local legends as a vehicle for understanding complex relationships between people and the places they live.

 
 

Charleen Kepner, John and LaRee Caughey Honors College Editorial Fellow

Charleen Kepner is a transfer student at Portland State in the University Honors College, majoring in children, youth and family studies. Charleen is interested in history, especially history that influences the rights of children and families.  Charleen has been a PreK teacher for many years and hopes to work with aspiring early childhood educators to empower them to advocate for the rights of children. 

Past Managing Editors

David A. Johnson, (co-editor) Carl Abbott, 1997-2014
Norris Hundley, Jr. 1968-1996
John Caughey 1947-1968
Louis Knott Koontz 1936-1947
John C. Parrish 1932-1936

Past Assistant and Associate Editors

Susan Wladaver-Morgan
L. Craig Cunningham
Edwin J. Perkins
Keith B. Berwick
John W. Caughey
Louis Knott Koontz