Authors and Editors: Newsletter (Summer 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.

Rebecca de Schweinitz recently completed her dissertation entitled " 'If They Could Change the World:' Children, Childhood, and Civil Rights Politics." She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, 2004. Email: rkd6c@hotmail.com

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 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) 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 a member of the SHCY newsletter committee.Email: mehinder@uchicago.edu

Joseph E. Illick is Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University and author of American Childhoods (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). He sponsored the first black studies course on the San Francisco State University campus and recently wrote "African Americans: Childhood in Slavery, Childlike in Freedom, and Paul Robeson as Child and Parent," in Joseph Dorinson and William Pencak, eds, Paul Robeson: Essays on His Life and Legacy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2002). Email: illick@sfsu.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.ed

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 is working on a history of Jewish child welfare in interwar Poland. His book Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939: Building Our Own Home will be published this fall. He works and teaches at the University of Phoenix in Cleveland, Ohio. Email: seanmartin1@juno.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 and is the author of Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890-1940 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). David co-edits with Janet Golden the "News from the Field" column. Email: pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk

Peter Wallenstein teaches history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research emphasizes southern history from Civil War to civil rights, and his books include Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History (2002) and Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia (2004). Email: pwallens@vt.edu

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