July,
2003
A
Note from the Editors
Writing
as the Newsletter's two co-editors, we want to thank
everyone who participated in the production of issue #2! Also
writing as co-editors, we want to reiterate Joe Hawes's invitation
to get involved (Message from the
SHCY President). We began this enterprise last fall with a
small group of volunteers who had big ideas about what the Newsletter
could and should be. The editors' meeting in Baltimore produced
more ideas and our plans keep expanding. But we need help to create
a rich, elegant, and very useful publication.
You'll
find throughout the columns requests from the editors for suggestions
about topics to discuss or newsworthy events to describe. Janet
Golden and David Pomfret, who put together the "News from
the Field" pages, invite SHCY members to write reviews of
museum exhibits. Lisa Ossian and Kathleen Alaimo want your help
with the Newsletter's pedagogy pages. We inaugurated
a new feature in this issue; "Websightings" needs an
editor, someone who will search out and review sites of interest
to SHCY members. Miriam and Ilana have made "Girls' History:
History of Girls" column the Newsletter's first
topical column. We want to encourage others to develop similar
specialized pages. Beginning with the Winter 2004 issue, we hope
to include in each Newsletter a bibliographic essay.
The first will be devoted to children and war -- volunteers to
create essays for other topics? Another suggestion that came up
in Baltimore: a "Notes from the Archives" column in
which researchers could promote their favorite collection.
In
the future we'd like to be able to publish more feature articles
and commentary -- like the reports on the Baltimore conference
from Joe, Melissa, and Sean.
And
from the digital, production, appearance side of things -- we
would like to make these pages "look pretty" with images,
a more sophisticated layout, and perhaps a pdf format.
Perhaps
it's the optimism of youth! This is an ambitious agenda, but one
we believe can be accomplished with your help.
So,
we encourage you to critique this issue; to make suggestions;
and to volunteer your editorial services. The next issue of the
Newsletter is slated to appear in January 2004. Let us
know what you'd like to contribute!
Your
Co-editors,
Jim
and Kathy
james.marten@marquette.edu AND kjwj@vt.edu
Who
We Are: THe SHCY Newsletter Editors and Contributors
Joe
Austin an assistant professor in the Department of Popular
Culture at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches courses
on youth cultures. He is the author of Taking the Train: How
Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City(Columbia
UP, 2001) and co-editor of Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures
and History in Twentieth Century America (NYU, 1998). He
is currently co-editing an anthology on youth and popular cultures
since 1945, and co-writing a textbook on popular culture. Email:
JAustin@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Kathleen
Alaimo, Professor of History at Saint Xavier University,
Chicago, is co-editor and contributor to Children as Equals:
Exploring the Rights of the Child (UPA, 2002). Her research
interests are European adolescence, education, delinquency, and
rights. Her latest work is on scientific ideas about female adolescence
in England and France, 1880-1920. Kathleen teaches world history,
European women's history, and a seminar on the history of children
and youth. With Lisa Ossian she edits the Newsletter's teaching
columns. Email: alaimo@sxu.edu
Miriam
Forman-Brunell, Professor of History at the University of
Missouri, Kansas City, teaches courses on the history of American
girls, women, and gender. She is the author of Made to Play
House: Dolls and the Commercialization of AmericanGirlhood
(1993;1998) and the editor of Girlhood in America (2001).
Her forthcoming book, Get a Sitter! Fears and Fantasies about
Babysitters is due to be published by Routledge Press next
year. With Ilana Nash, Miriam edits the Newsletter's
columns on girls history. Emai: Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu
Janet
Golden is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden
and a Faculty Associate at the Rutgers Center for Children and
Childhood Studies. She recently completed (with Heather Munro
Prescott and Richard Meckel) on an editedvolume on ChildHealth
in American History. Janet co-edits with David Pomfret the "News
from the Field" column. Email: jgolden@crab.rutgers.edu.
IEmail: jgolden@crab.rutgers.edu
Kathleen
W. Jones coedits the SHCY Newsletter with Jim
Marten. She is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech,
where she teaches the history of medicine and a course on murder
in America. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child:
American Families, Child Guidance and the Limits of Psychiatric
Authority(1999; 2002); at present she is working on a history
of youth suicide. Email: kjwj@vt.edu
Melissa
R. Klapper is an assistant professor of history at Rowan
University. Her research interests lie in the intersection of
gender,ethnicity, and youth. She is currently revising her dissertation
on adolescent Jewish girls in America between 1860-1920, which
will bepublished by New York University Press. Email: klapper@rowan.edu.
James
Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University,
coedits the SHCY Newsletter with Kathleen Jones. Jim
is the author of The Children's Civil War, editor of Children
and War: A Historical Anthology, and Director of the Children
in Urban America Project. (The project can be found at http://academic.mu.edu/cuap)
He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for the History
of Children and Youth. Email: James.Marten@marquette.edu
Sean
Martin has taught courses in Jewish and East European
studies and he is currently working on the history of Jewish child
welfare in interwar Poland. Part of his forthcoming book, "Building
Our Own Home: Jewish Civil Society in Cracow, 1918-1939,"
concerns the education of Jewish children in public and private
schools. Beginning this fall, he will be teaching at the University
of Phoenix in Cleveland, Ohio. Email: seanmartin1@juno.com
Ilana
Nash has a PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green
State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English
at Western Michigan University, where she teaches courses on youth,
popular culture, and literature. Her book "Troubling Daughters:
Teenage Girls in Popular Culture, 1930-1965," is forthcoming
from Indiana University Press. Ilana co-edits, with Miriam Forman-Brunell,
the Newsletter column on the history of girls and welcomes
suggestions or comments. Email: ilana_nash@yahoo.com
Lisa
L. Ossian completed her Ph.D. in agricultural history and
rural studies at Iowa State University in 1998 with a dissertation
titled "The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1940-1945." She is
currently researching the early depression years in rural Iowa
and is history and English instructor at Southwestern Community
College in Creston, Iowa. With Kathleen Alaimo, Lisa edits the
column on teaching. Email: LLOssian@aol.com
David
M. Pomfret is Assistant Professor in Modern European History
in the Department of History, University of Hong Kong. He teaches
and publishes on the history of young people and adults' representations
of young people in modern European cities. David co-edits with
Janet Golden the "News from the Field" column. Email:
pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk
Luke
Springman is Associate Professor of German and Chair of the
Dept. of Languages and Cultures at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
He is currently Working on a monograph examining youth culture
of the German Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Luke edits the "Recent
Publications" column. Email:. Email: spring@bloomu.edu
