NEWSLETTER
Society for the History of Children and Youth
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No. 13 |
Winter 2009 |
Contributors to SHCY Newsletter, issue #13
Jeffrey Canton is the co-director of the core course, The Worlds of Childhood, in
York University's new Children's Studies Program. He is also on the Board of the
Children's Studies Program and is currently organizing a conference on social
justice literature for children and young people that will take place at York
in November 2009.
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
Hamilton Cravens is Distinguished Scholar in Arts and Humanities and Professor of History at Iowa State University. Look for his new edited book, Great Depression; People and Perspectives (published by ABC-Clio), which is forthcoming summer 2009. Contact him at: hcravens@iastate.edu
Leslie Dadlani is a Contract Faculty member in the Division of Humanities at York
University, and a former Academic Advisor of Vanier College. Ms. Dadlani has specialized in the
Children‚s Studies Program teaching Foundational Courses for four years.
Anna Mae Duane is an assistant professor of English at the
University of Connecticut, where she is the coordinator of UConn's tri-campus
American Studies program. She is finishing a book manuscript titled Suffering Childhood in Early America:
Colonial Violence and the Making of the Child-Victim, currently under
contract with University of Georgia Press. Contact her
at: amduane1@gmail.com
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 media and youth at York University in
Toronto. His main areas of
interest is “perpetual adolescence” which examines the many ways that the culture
industries market “youthfulness” to young and old consumers alike. Steve has over 10 years of teaching
experience (teaching all levels from kindergarten to graduate students) and
almost 15 years of experience in curriculum development. 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’s
email: mona.gleason@ubc.ca
Michael Grossberg is Sally M. Reahard Professor of
History & Professor of Law Indiana University. He is the author of Governing
the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America. Studies in Legal
History (The University of North Carolina Press, l985; [Paperback edition,
1988; Second paperback edition, 1993; Electronic Edition, 2002] and numerous
articles on child welfare. Email:
grossber@indiana.edu
Lucia Hodgson is an advanced doctoral candidate in the English
Department at the University of Southern California. A recipient of the USC Graduate School Anna Bing Arnold Fellowship
for 2008-2009, she is currently completing her dissertation, "Little
Subjects: Childhood and Race in Transatlantic American Discourses of Slavery," under the
direction of Carla Kaplan and John Carlos Rowe (Co-Chairs), Joseph Boone and Karen
Halttunen. Send email to: lhodgson@usc.edu
Kathleen W. Jones is an 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
Melissa R. Klapper is Associate Professor of History at Rowan
University. She is the author of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America,
1860-1920 (NYU Press, 2005)
and Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children
in the United States, 1880-1925 (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007). Contact her at: klapper@rowan.edu
Kelly Marino is an MA candidate studying twentieth century women’s history at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on changing gender roles, family structures, and
leisure time in the early 1900s. email: kmarino@history.umass.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 child welfare associations in interwar Poland. Sean
is the Newsletter editor for
"Websightings." Contact him at seanmartin1@juno.com
Jessica J. Nelson is a PhD Candidate at Purdue University (West
Lafayette, IN). She is the current
Graduate Student Member on the SHCY Executive Committee. Her dissertation is titled Policy and Sentiment: Attitudes and
Institutions Concerning Abandoned Children in Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Century France. Contact Jessica at jessjnelson@hotmail.com
David M. Pomfret is Associate 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
Anna Redcay is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation, “The ‘Long Defended
Gate’: Juvenilia and Constructions of Creativity, 1858-1939,” explores the
editing and publication of juvenile-authored texts from the mid-nineteenth to
mid-twentieth century. Email: amredcay@hotmail.com
Karen Sánchez-Eppler teaches English and American Studies at Amherst
College. Author of Touching Liberty:
Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body and Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-century American
Culture, she is one of the founding editors of SHCY's Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Email: kjsanchezepp@amherst.edu
Brett L. Shadle teaches African history at Virginia Tech. His first book was "Girl Cases”: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya,
1890-1970 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006) and he is now engaged in
research on the histories of white settlement and of sexual violence in Kenya.
Email: shadle@vt.edu
Neil Shyminsky is a PhD student in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political
Thought at York University in Toronto, where he has been a teaching assistant
in the Children's Studies program for the past two years. His research interest
include the roles of race and gender in the articulation of Canadian national
identity/ies, as well as the politics of superheroics, about which he recently
published a paper in the International Journal of Comic Art.
Carol J. Singley is an associate professor in the Department of English at Rutgers
University-Camden, where she co-directs the American Studies program and is a
research associate in the Center for the Study of Children and Childhood. She
is the author of Edith Wharton: Matters
of Mind and Spirit (Cambridge UP, 1995) and editor or co-editor of six
volumes, including The American Child: A
Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers UP, 2003). She is co-founder of the
Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship and is currently
completing a book on representations of adoption in American literature and
culture. Email: singley@camden.rutgers.edu
Gleb Tsipursky is currently writing a dissertation entitled "Pleasure,
Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: The Komsomol Campaign to Organize Soviet
Youth Leisure, 1955-1964" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. While specializing in Soviet history, he seeks to engage scholars in
other regions and fields in a broader dialogue that reflects his thematic
interests, including childhood and youth, identity formation, state-society
relations, and comparative cultural studies. Email: tsipursk@email.unc.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 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
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