Contributors to Issue No. 9: Winter 2007

Helen Brown teaches courses in the history of modern childhood at Malaspina University College in Nananimo, British Columbia, Canada. She is working on an extensive wartime correspondence between two families, the Huttons and Pelletts, who were connected by the evacuation of a British child to Canada. As part of that project she is currently completing a paper on the response of Parents' Magazine to the Second World War.  Contact her at: brownh@mala.bc.ca

Caroline Cox is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton California. She teaches and researches on the American Revolution and the interplay of war and social change and is the author of A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington’s Army (2004). She has recently finished a manuscript about Elizabeth Evans Hughes, a diabetic teenager who was one of the first recipients of insulin when it was discovered in 1922. Her present project is on eighteenth century boy soldiers.  Email Caroline Cox at ccox@pacific.edu

Moira Hinderer is a Ph.D candidate in the History Department at the University of Chicago.  She is currently completing the dissertation, "Making African-American Childhood: Chicago, 1917-1945."  Moira is a Newsletter co-editor; her email:  mehinder@uchicago.edu

Kathleen Jones is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at Virginia Tech, and she edits the SHCY Newsletter. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999), and is currently completing a history of twentieth-century youth suicide.  Her email is:  kjwj@vt.edu

Kriste Lindenmeyer is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and President of SHCY.   Her most recent book is The Great Generation Grows Up: Childhood in 1930s America (Ivan Dee, 2005).  Email for Kriste: lindenme@umbc.edu

Joanna B. Michlic is an Assistant Professor in the Holocaust and Genocide Program at the Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey.  She is a member of the International History Initiative. The Historical Commissions Project on Eastern Europe sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York) and Prof. Elazar Barkan of Columbia University.  Her publications include the co-edited with Antony Polonsky, Neighbors Respond: the Controversy about Jedwabne (Princeton University Press, 2004) and her book Poland's Threatening Other:The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, (Nebraska University Press, Summer 2006). She is currently working on a monograph, The Social History of Jewish Children in Poland: Survival and Identity, 1945-1949. She has written a number of articles for East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Social Studies, Polin and Slavonic and East European Review. Her research interests include the history and culture of East European Jewry, Polish-Jewish relations in the modern era, the Holocaust and its memory in Eastern Europe, comparative studies of genocide and mass violence, and nationalism and minorities in Eastern Europe.  Email for Joanna Michlic:  jmichlic@comcast.net

Sarah Park is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  She has an M.A. in Asian American Studies (2004) and a B.A. in History and Asian American Studies (2002) from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research interests include the construction of Korean/Korean American children’s experiences and identities in children’s literature, children’s librarianship, social justice, transnational adoption, and Korean/Korean American history.  Sarah’s dissertation project questions the narratives and representations of Korean adoptees in children’s literature.  She maintains a website: www.sarahpark.com

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

Jennifer Aerts Terry, an assistant professor at American River College in Sacramento, California, currently teaches courses on U.S., Women’s, and Mexican history.  Her research interests focus primarily on women and children prisoners-of-war in the Pacific during World War II.  She is presently working on a project that examines the maternity experience of interned women in the Philippines.  Jennifer Terry can be emailed at  TerryJ@arc.losrios.edu

Colleen A. Vasconcellos is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia. She is currently working on a monograph based on her dissertation, "And a Child Shall Lead Them?:  Slavery, Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica, 1750-1838." 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-xhildhood. Email: colleen@mail.h-net.msu.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

Vassiliki Vassiloudi gained her M.A. in Children’s Literature from the University of Reading, U.K. (1998) and her Ph.D. in the same area from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (2004). She is currently conducting research on the shifting notions of childhood during the Greek Civil War.  Her academic interests lie in the fields of children’s literature and history of childhood and children. She has participated in a number of local and international conferences.  Vassiliki Vasiloudi’s email: fruitcorner@hotmail.com

Nancy Zey s a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Texas at Austin and will complete her degree in May 2007.  Her dissertation, "Rescuing Some Youthful Minds:  Benevolent Women and the Rise of the Civic Household in Early Republic Natchez," focuses on the FemaleCharitable Society and the establishment of an orphan asylum as an alternative form of child welfare.  With David Pomfret Nancy compiled the “News from the Field” column for the Newsletter.  She may be reached at nancyzey@mail.utexas.edu