Aviation Girls
Biographies
TIM GROVE
Tim Grove believes the past is filled with amazing stories waiting to be told. He writes from twenty-five years of experience as a public historian and museum professional, working at some of America’s most-visited history museums. His career memoir, A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History, highlights some of the fun projects he has worked on. More recently, he has been writing history-focused nonfiction books for ages 10-14. His book First Flight Around the World was a finalist for the 2016 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction award. He is also the author of Milestones of Flight. Besides telling stories from different perspectives, he seeks to help all ages understand the historical process and to see that the past is vitally relevant to our world today.
SEZAI ADIL
Sezai Adil is an academic with fifteen years’ experience writing and editing scientific manuscripts, books, and grant proposals. His specialties include Biodiversity, Ecology, Biology, biological control, ecology and also education sciences. He holds a BS in Biology, a Master’s degree in Zoology, and a PhD in Zoology.
PAUL GLENSHAW
Paul Glenshaw’s lifelong passions over several disciplines all fuel the same goal: storytelling. In addition to being an instructor and lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates, Paul is co-director, writer, and producer of the just completed documentary The Lafayette Escadrille. He is a frequent contributor to the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine, and recent drawing projects in crude work with the Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He is also a writer and producer for the theater, radio, museum exhibits, interactive media, and STEM education. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
MICHAEL QUETTING
Michael Quetting is a laboratory director and ultralight pilot at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which gives him a unique opportunity to combine his love of flying with his love of birds.
Among his works are the book Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life (Greystone Books).
JESSICA GHILANI
Jessica Ghilani, PhD is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. There, she teaches and studies the history of technologies, primarily in media. Her interests in aviation came from examining military recruiting advertisements in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, which led her to the impressive expanse of the Steven F. Udvar–Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum. This airplane hangar located in northern Virginia displays numerous early through present aviation technologies for museum visitors to inspect and admire.
She has written extensively about the use of technologies in military recruiting and public relations. Her work has been published in academic journals and edited volumes. She has been recognized with numerous grants and awards, most relevantly a 2009 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship and in 2020, the Aviation Space Writers Association Award given by the National Air and Space Museum. She is a mother of two bookish girls who love to invent and learn about history, so she is delighted to contribute to this collection.
CAMERON SMITH
Teaching human evolution and prehistory since 1999, Cameron Smith studied at the University of London’s Institute of Archaeology and then Durham University (UK) (BA Joint Hons), with two field seasons at Koobi Fora, Kenya; he then earned an MA (Anthropology) at Portland State University, and a doctorate in Archaeology at Canada’s Simon Fraser University in 2004.
Dr. Smith’s books include The Fact of Evolution (Penguin Random House 2011), An Atlas of Human Prehistory (Cognella 2019), and Evolution and the Drake Equation: An Anthropologist’s Estimation of the Probability of Intelligent Life in our Galaxy (Springer 2023).
ELAINE SWANSON
Elaine Swanson is a second-year master’s student in applied computation at Harvard. Elaine’s experiences as a farmer, combined with her bachelor’s degree in mathematical biology and botany from Oregon State University, inspire her to develop algorithms aimed at addressing food insecurity resulting from population growth and shifting climate patterns. Elaine is also an artist committed to youth education and teaching the dynamics of astrobotany and mathematics in nature and art. During the summer months, she runs Math in Nature daycamps for K-5th graders and NASA STEM programs for middle school aged girls.
ANNE MILLBROOKE
Anne Millbrooke is a historian educated at Boise State College (bachelor’s degree), University of Wisconsin-Madison (master’s degree), and the University of Pennsylvania (doctorate degree). She used to manage the archives for Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky flying boats and helicopters, and Hamilton Standard propellers. She taught history at several universities. She wrote the award-winning Aviation History book published by Jeppesen and the National Register Bulletin: Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Historic Aviation Properties published by the National Park Service.
