SHCY Newsletter #5 (Winter 2005)

Joe Austin is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, a member of the Executive Committee of the SHCY, author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City (2001), and co-editor of Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-century America (1998).

Paula S. Fass in Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Childhood in America (2000) and author of The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977), Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (1989), and Kidnapped: A History of Child Abduction in the United States (1997). She is currently writing as book on children and globalization.

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

Joseph Hawes is professor of history at the University of Memphis. In addition to editing and co-editing several anthologies and research guides, he has published Children in Urban Society: Juvenile Delinquency in Nineteenth Century (1971), The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection (1991), and Children Between the Wars: American Childhood, 1920-1940 (1997). He is currently president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.

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

Kathleen W. Jones coedits the SHCY Newsletter with Jim Marten, Sean Martin, and Colleen Vasconcellos. 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

Richard Kearney is Electronic Resources Librarian at William Paterson University, where he is also completing an M.A. thesis on nineteenth-century child labor reform in New Jersey. He has offered library instruction sessions to undergraduate and graduate history students for five years.

Dewar MacLeod is an Assistant Professor of History at William Paterson University. He is completing a manuscript on punk rock in Southern California.

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. He is co-editor, with Kathleen Jones and Colleen Vasconcellos, of the SHCY Newsletter. Email: seanmartin1@juno.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 Nancy Zey the "News from the Field" column. Email: pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk

Colleen A. Vasconcellos is an adjunct professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. In addition to being an editor of the SHCY newsletter, Colleen is also an editor of H-Africa and H-Caribbean and an Advisory Board member of H-Childhood. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "And a Child Shall Lead Them?: Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1750-1838." As a side project, Colleen is beginning research on the Nevis childhood of Alexander Hamilton. Email: colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu

Nancy Zey, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation explores the interrelationship of charity schools, orphan asylums, and pauper apprenticeship in the early American republic using Natchez, Mississippi as a case study. She presented a paper on the evolution of female charitable societies into modern child welfare agencies at the SHCY Biennial Meeting in 2003. Nancy co-edits with David Pomfret the "News from the Field" column. Email: nancyzey@mail.utexas.edu