Number 3

Winter 2004

Editors and Contributors to the Newsletter (Winter 2004)

E. Wayne Carp is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Pacific Lutheran University. Wayne is the author of Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (1998; 2000), editor of Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives (2002), and author of the soon to be published, Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58 (2004). Email: carpw@plu.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! A History of Dread & Desire is due to be published by Routledge Press next year. With Ilana Nash, Miriam edits the Newsletter's columns on girls history. Email: Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu

Mona Gleason teaches the history of children and youth and the history of education at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) and co-editor of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History - 4th Edition(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002) and Children, Teachers, and Schools in the History of British Columbia (Calgary: Detselig Press, 2003). Mona is currently a member of the SHCY newsletter committee. Email: mona.gleason@ubc.ca

Janet Golden, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of the forthcoming Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Harvard University Press) and co-editor (with Richard A. Meckel and Heather Munro Prescott) of the forthcoming Child Health in American History (Greenwood Press). News from members and about conferences, exhibits, calls for papers and other relevant activities can be sent to her at jgolden@camden.rutgers.edu

Moira Hinderer is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Chicago. She is writing her dissertation, "Making African American Childhood: Chicago, 1919-1939," and struggling with issues of accessibility to sensitive records. Moira is currently a member of the SHCY newsletter committee.Email: mehinder@uchicago.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. Kathleen 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

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

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 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. Lisa edits the Newsletter's 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

 

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