SHCY
Newsletter Editors
James
Marten and Kathleen Jones
are acting as co-editors of the Newsletter. We solicit
articles, consult with the contributing editors, gather their
columns together, and put the Newsletter online.
Jim
is Professor of History at Marquette University, 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.
Kathy
is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, where she
teaches the history of medicine and a course on murder in America.
She is currently developing a "digital history" component
for the department's graduate MA program. 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.
Contact
Jim (james.marten@marquette.edu)
or Kathy (kjwj@vt.edu) with comments
and suggestions for the next newsletter. Or if you'd like to volunteer
as a contributing editor for a new column.
Contributing
Editors:
Miriam
Forman-Brunell, a 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 American Girlhood
(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. Emai: Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu
Janet
Golden is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden
and a Faculty Associate at the Rutgers Center for Children and
Childhood Studies. She is currently working (with Heather Munro
Prescott and Richard Meckel) on an edited volume on Children and
Youth in Sickness and Health. Janet co-edits with David Pomfret
the "News from the Field" column. Email: jgolden@crab.rutgers.edu
Ilana
Nash just earned her doctorate in American Culture Studies
from Bowling Green State University. Her dissertation, "America’s
Kid Sister: Teenage Girls in Popular Culture, 1930-1965,"
is currently under consideration for publication. Dr. Nash has
taught “The American Teenager, 1925-1975” in addition
to courses on women, gender, and popular culture. She is currently
a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies
Research Center at Mount Holyoke College. Ilana co-edits, with
Miriam Forman-Brunell, the Newsletter column on the history
of girls. Email: inash@MtHolyoke.edu
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. 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: spring@bloomu.edu
