Ann Fabian is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, where she also served as Dean of Humanities. She is the author of Card Sharps, Dreams Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th- Century America; The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America; and The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead, and co-editor with Mia Bay of a collection on Race and Retail. Her writing and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic, The Chicago Tribune, Raritan Quarterly, The Yale Review, The National Book Review and elsewhere. Supporters of her work include the American Antiquarian Society, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was president of the Society of American Historians and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and has served on the board of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Council of the American Antiquarian Society and on Pulitzer Prize juries for history and for general non-fiction.