Guest Bloggers for Points are generally academics, policy experts, activists, or educators with a professional research interest in alcohol and drugs. If you fall outside this description but think you would like to contribute, you may send a short resume, 2-3 relevant clips (links to online publications are fine), and a brief pitch that explains the topic you want to write about and the approach you intend to take to Joe Spillane or Trysh Travis. Please note that Points does not publish book reviews, fiction, poetry, or memoir/personal experience narrative.
Dessa Bergen-Cico: An assistant professor of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition at Syracuse University, Dessa Bergen-Cico is the lead faculty of their Addiction Studies Program and the author of War and Drugs: The Role of Military Conflict in the Development of Substance Abuse (Paradigm Publishers, 2011).
Alexandra Bogren: An associate professor of Sociology at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University (Sweden), Alexandra is currently working on media portrayals of biomedical alcohol research. She has a continuing interest in cultural studies of alcohol, drugs, and intoxication; her works has appeared in venues like Addiction Research and Theory, Feminist Media Studies, and NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Matthew Crawford: Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Kent State University and a historian of the early modern Atlantic World, Crawford is at work on a book tentatively titled “A Cure for Empire: An American Wonder Drug, Enlightenment Science, and European Imperialism, 1750-1850.”
Emily Dufton: A PhD candidate in the American Studies department at George Washington University, Emily is currently beginning work on her dissertation, which explores the origins of the family-centered, zero-tolerance prevention approach that consumed America’s social, political, and judicial approach to the drug abuse “epidemic” in the late twentieth century. She presented her paper, “Faith: The Anti Drug. Religion and Recruits in the Battle Against Youth Drug Use,” at the 2012 American Historical Association’s meeting in Chicago, and is the author of the review ”‘Laughing, Sweating, and Smiling Bravely Across History’: Visual Narratives of Countercultural Contentment in Roberta Price’s Across the Great Divide,” to be published soon by the Journal of Popular Culture.
Kelsey Harclerode: A 3rd year student at the University of Florida, double majoring in Political Science and Women’s Studies, Kelsey Harclerode honed her research chops in Model United Nations. She has served as an intern in the office of US Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fl) and as a special assistant to Senator George Limieux (R-Fl), and has also interned at the lobbying firm of Van Scoyoc and Associates. At present she is pursuing an honors thesis in Political Science on gender’s role in the Arab Spring revolutions.
Brad Listi: The founder of The Nervous Breakdown, an online culture magazine and literary community is also the author of a novel called Attention. Deficit. Disorder., a Los Angeles Times bestseller, the executive producer of The Nervous Breakdown’s podcast series, and the host of Other People with Brad Listi, a twice-weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with contemporary authors.
Dan Malleck: Dan Malleck is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Brock University (Ontario, Canada), where he teaches medical history. He is the editor-in-chief of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the official journal of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, and author of Try to Control Yourself: The regulation of public drinking in post-prohibition Ontario, 1927-1944, forthcoming from University of British Columbia Press.
Mike McLaughlin: received his BA and MA from York University in Toronto. He is currently a third year Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Carleton University in Ottawa. His dissertation topic focuses on the middle-class culture of Irish Catholics in Canada in the second half of the nineteenth century, and their relationship to the British Empire. It is tentatively titled “Imperial Citizens: Irish Catholic Middle-Class Culture in Colonial Canada, 1855-1902.”
