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Exhibit Curator Biographies
FRANK TOBIAS HIGBIE
Frank Tobias (Toby) Higbie is the director
of the Newberry Library's Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community
History. He is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and
Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (University of Illinois Press,
2003). His work has been published in International Labor and Working Class
History, Social Science History, and Labor History, and he is
a contributing editor of the new journal Labor: Studies in Working Class
History of the Americas. In addition to acting as co-curator and project
director for Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition, Higbie is
project director for the North American Midlands Website: Resources for
Teaching and Learning American History in a Global Perspective and academic
director for the Chicago History Project: A Model Professional Development
Program. Higbie holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where he was also a union activist and organizer for the
American Federation of Teachers.
PETER T. ALTER
Peter T. Alter is a curator in the Department
of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Chicago Historical Society. His
work has been published in the Journal of American Ethnic History,
Serbian Studies, the Journal of the Illinois State Historical
Society, The Encyclopedia of Chicago, and the Encyclopedia of the
Midwest. From 1999 to 2002, Alter worked on the Chicago Historical
Society's documentation project Global Communities: Chicago's Immigrants and
Refugees. In addition to being co-curator of Outspoken: Chicago's Free
Speech Tradition, Alter is the co-curator of an exhibit on the photographs
of Declan Haun to open at the Chicago Historical Society in October 2004. Alter
holds a Ph.D. in U.S. and Balkan History from the University of Arizona.
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