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I'm a law professor, freelance writer, and guitarist still striving for mediocrity. My articles range in topic from borderlands issues and immigration and refugees to politics, health policy, bioethics, autism, and music and musical instruments. My writings have been published in law reviews, medical journals, music magazines, national newspapers, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. My X-ray project that demonstrated why the "Banner" Gibsons built by the Kalamazoo Gals are superior to those built by their male predecessors and successors has morphed into an art show that is traveling to museums throughout the US through 2021 with the National Guitar Museum. My newest book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude, Struggle, and Violence along the US/ ...more

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"Kalamazoo Gals" has gotten great media coverage. Please check out:

Soundcheck/NPR: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/mar/0...

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Guitarkadia: http://guitarkadia.com/emon/blog/the-...

NBC New York: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2ULS...

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Published on April 26, 2013 08:11 • Tags: gibson, kalamazoo-gals, women-s-history, wwii

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Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII

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