News
from the Field III: Recognizing
the Accomplishments of SHCY Members
Janet
Golden and David Pomfret, Contributing Editors
Joe
Illick recently published American Childhoods a cross-cultural
history of American child hood since the 17th century. See: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13770.html
The book has been widely (and favorably reviewed). He also reports:
"I retired from San Francisco State University's history
department. I'm now working on a history book for children featuring
my own wood cuts; the text will be in verse (or inverse?)."
Priscilla
Clement and Jackie Reinier are editing
a series on the history of children and youth for Greenwood-Praeger.
They are seeking high quality manuscripts based on primary sources
emphasizing the lived experience of children and are particularly
interested in manuscripts in the following subject areas: studies
of ethnic minority children, studies of working-class children
and those living in poverty, studies of children in the seventeenth,
eighteenth, and twentieth centuries, studies of institutions and
organizations that serve children and youth or have been formed
by them and studies that evaluate the impact of popular culture.
They are happy to entertain works on the separate experience of
boys or girls as well as manuscripts that emphasize the lived
experience of both genders. For more information contact Priscilla
Clement at pc4@psu.edu
Harvey
J. Graff (University of Texas at San Antonio) is serving
as the principal academic advisor for the Chicago Historical Society's
"Teen Initiative"/Chicago Teen project, a multi-year
sequence of activities. The project, which has the serious involvement
of young people in almost all aspects of a museum and historical
society at its core, includes an exhibit on Chicago Teens in the
20th Century (to open in April 2004), oral history and publication
activities, a Teen Council of area students, public programs for
teachers and families, and public programs for teens, including
poetry slams, arts, and performances. Graff has worked with CHS
since 2001.
Congratulations to Patrick Ryan who has accepted
a new tenure-track position at King's College, University of Western
Ontario in London Ontario beginning Fall 2003. The position is
in a newly created program in Childhood and Family Relations and
carries a dual appointment in Political Science. Ryan was one
of the original list editors for H-Childhood. Having fulfilled
these voluntary duties for five years, he is surrendering them
this summer and taking on the Book Review Editor duties on H-childhood.
Anya
Jabour, associate professor of history at the University
of Montana, will publish Major Problems in the History of
Families and Children with Houghton-Mifflin in Fall 2003.
Her first book, Marriage in the Early Republic, is now
available in paperback from Johns Hopkins University Press: http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/f02/f02jama.htm
Kathleen
Alaimo, Saint Xavier University (Chicago), co-edited
and contributed to a multidisciplinary collection of essays,
Children as Equals: Exploring the Rights of the Child (University
Press of America, 2002). Alaimo's chapter, "Historical Roots
of Children's Rights in Europe and the United States," was
originally presented at the 2001 SHCY meeting. Congratulations
to Kathleen who has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department
of History and Political Science.
E.
Wayne Carp reports on two recent publications: “Adoption,
Blood Kinship, Stigma and the Adoption Reform Movement: A Historical
Perspective,” which appeared in Law and Society Review
and a book of essays that he edited for University of Michigan
Press entitled Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives.
See: http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/10999.html
Susan
Porter of the Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities reports that she published "A Good Home: Indenture
and Adoption in American Orphanages, 1800-1850," in the book
edited by E. Wayne Carp and listed above and another article,
"Orphan Fathers and Moral Mothers: Halle and Early American
Orphanages," in Waisenhäuser in der Frühen
Neuzeit (Orphanages in the Early Modern Period)
Udo Sträter and Josef N. Nermann, Eds., Verlag der Franckeshen
Stiftungen Halle im Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2003.
David
Pomfret (University of Hong Kong) will publish a monograph,
Young People and the European City, with Ashgate in September
2003. His article “Adolescence dans le contexte culturel
de la ville” has been published in Lorsque l’enfant
grandit: Entre dépendance et autonomie ed. Jean-Pierre
Bardet, Jean-Noël Luc, Isabelle Robin-Romero, and Catherine
Rollet (Presses de l’Université de Paris Sorbonne,
2003).
Thomas
E. Bergler reports that he recently published "The
Place of History in Youth Ministry Education" The Journal
of Youth Ministry 1 (Fall 2002): 57-71.
Congratulations
to Melissa Klapper who was awarded a fellowship
from the Balch Institute for a research residency at the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. This will support research for her book
"Small Strangers: Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925.'
A recent publication is 'A Long and Broad Education': Jewish Girls
and the Problem of Education in America, 1860--1920," Journal
of American Ethnic History 22 (Fall 2002): 3--31.
A
final note: Keep us informed. Please send along news
of conferences, exhibits, publications to Janet Golder or David
Pomfret.
