NEWSLETTER

Society for the History of Children and Youth

Contributors to Newsletter #11

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.  She is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004).  She has published several articles on youth, race, and science and is currently at work on a manuscript on youth of color in California reformatories, 1890s to 1940s. Contact Miroslava at chavezgarcia@ucdavis.edu.

Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and President of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.  She is the author of many books about the history of childhood, the most recent Children of a New World; Society, Culture, and Globalization (New York University Press, 2007), and editor of the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (Thompson Gale, 2004).  Email: psfass@berkeley.edu

Stephen Gennaro is a cultural historian of youth and media.  He has a PhD in Communications from McGill University in Montreal and is currently teaching in the Children's Studies Department at York University in Toronto, Canada.  Steve has over 10 years of teaching experience at all levels from nursery school to graduate studies and has been developing curriculum for public school boards and private institutions for close to 15 years.  Steve's email: sgennaro@yorku.ca

Mona Gleason is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research focuses on the history of children, education, and the family. She is the author of Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1999), co-editor, with Adele Perry, of  Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 5th Edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006) and is currently writing a history of children's medical treatment in English Canada over the twentieth century. (mona.gleason@ubc.ca)

Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies & Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University, where he directs the LiteracyStudies@OSU campus-wide interdisciplinary initiative. Author of The Literacy Myth and Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America, among his many books, his The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City sees print Spring 2008. He is now working a social history of interdisciplinarity.  Email: graff.40@osu.edu

Margot Hillel is a Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Sciences at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. Her teaching is in children's literature, including the history of children's literature and her research interests are particularly in the areas of the constructions of childhood in children's literature.  Contact Margot at M.Hillel@patrick.acu.edu.au

Allison James is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield.  Contact her at allison.james@shef.ac.uk

Kathleen W. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, on leave 2007-2008 at the National Humanities Center. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child; American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999).  Her current project is a history of youth suicide in the United States, 1870 to the present.  She also edits the Newsletter and can be reached at kjwj@vt.edu

James Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University.  He is the founding and current secretary-treasurer of the SHCY and author of a dozen books on the history of children and of the Civil War era.  Email: james.marten@marquette.edu

Sean Martin is Associate Curator for Jewish History at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939. His current research focuses on the history of Jewish children's aid associations in interwar Poland.  Sean is the Newsletter  editor for "Websightings."  Contact him at seanmartin1@juno.com

Steven Mintz, who directs the Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center, was previously the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston.  The president-elect of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, he is the author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard University Press, 2004) which received awards from the Association of American Publishers, the Organization of American Historians, and the Texas Institute of Letters.  Email: smintz@uh.edu

Tamara Myers is a member of the History Department at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and her research focuses on the histories of women and gender, crime and punishment, modern Canada and Quebec, and children and youth. She is the author of Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 (University of Toronto Press, 2006). She is working on a history of policed youth in the 20th century. (tamara.myers@ubc.ca )

David M. Pomfret is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of books and articles on the comparative history of youth and childhood in modern Britain and France. He is currently working on a comparative study of youth in empire.  With Nancy Zey, David compiles the Newsletter's  "News from the Field"  column.  He can be contacted at pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk

Anne Sarah Rubin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Her book, A Shattered Nation:  The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868  (The University of North Carolina Press, 2005) was the winner of the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians.  Her email:  arubin@umbc.edu

Martha Saxton is Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies and Elizabeth W. Bruss Reader at Amherst College.  She is co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. (msaxton@amherst.edu)

Vassiliki Theodorou is an assistant professor in the Department of Primary Education at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Greek History, History of Childhood, Teaching History and Modern European History at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her academic interests lie in the fields of Social Greek History, History of Childhood and Social History of Medicine. She has widely published in both Greek and international journals.  Vassiliki Theodorou's email:  fruitcorner@hotmail.com

Lynne Vallone is Professor of Childhood Studies in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden.  She is the author of Becoming Victoria (2001) and general editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (2005).  email: vallone@rutgers.edu

Colleen A. Vasconcellos is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia. In addition to being co-editor of the SHCY Newsletter, Colleen is also an editor of H-Africa and H-Caribbean and an Advisory Board member of H-Childhood. Email: cvasconc@westga.edu

Nancy Zey is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Sam Houston State University.  In May 2007, she completed her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin, with a dissertation entitled "Rescuing Some Youthful Minds:  Benevolent Women and the Rise of the Orphan Asylum as Civic Household in Early Republic Natchez."  She has recently authored two publications relating to the history of children: "Children of the Public: Poor and Orphaned Minors in the Southwest Borderlands," in James Marten, ed., Children and Youth in a New Nation, New York University Press (forthcoming) and "'Every Thing but a Parent's Love': The Family Life of Orphan Asylums in the Lower Mississippi Valley," in Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour, eds., Southern Families:  Perspectives on Domesticity in the Old South, University of Georgia Press (forthcoming).  Since 2006, she has served as a list editor for H-Education. Contact Nancy at nancyzey@gmail.com