Kristin L. Hoganson (Ph.D. Yale University) is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars and Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1965-1920. Her longstanding interest in empire carries over to her current research, on the making of the U.S. heartland. She has held a Fulbright lectureship at Ludwig-Maximilians Universit�t and the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History at Oxford University and has served the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in various capacities.