Contributors to Issue #12 of the SHCY Newsletter

 

Adriana Silvia Benzaquén is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax (Canada).  She is the author of Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).  Her current research project is a study of John Locke’s “science of childhood.”  Email: adriana.benzaquen@msvu.ca

 

Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and director of the American Studies doctoral program at Penn State Harrisburg. Among his contributions to the history and culture of childhood and youth are the books American Children's Folklore (winner of the Opie Prize) and Piled Higher and Deeper: Folklore of Student Life (a third edition is scheduled for publication next year). He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of American Folklife in 4 volumes and Material Worlds book series for the University Press of Kentucky. Email: sbronner@psu.edu

 

Emily D. Cahan a Professor of Psychchology in the Department of Human Development at Wheelock College in Boston.  She has written numerous articles and chapters on the history of developmental psychology.  Most recently she has become interested in the ways in which the history of childhood intersects with scientific representations of childhood. Email: ecahan@rcn.com

 

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.  She is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004).  She has published several articles on youth, race, and science and is currently at work on a manuscript on youth of color in California reformatories, 1890s to 1940s. Contact Miroslava at chavezgarcia@ucdavis.edu

 

Rebecca de Schweinitz is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University where she teaches classes in U.S. Women's History, African American History, and the History of Children and Youth. Her book, If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press (Spring 2009). She can be reached at rld@byu.edu

 

Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and President of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.  She is the author of many books about the history of childhood, the most recent Children of a New World; Society, Culture, and Globalization (New York University Press, 2007), and editor of the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (Thompson Gale, 2004).  Email: psfass@berkeley.edu

 

Stephen Gennaro is a cultural historian of youth and media.  He has a PhD in Communications from McGill University in Montreal and is currently teaching in the Children's Studies Department at York University in Toronto, Canada.  Steve has over 10 years of teaching experience at all levels from nursery school to graduate studies and has been developing curriculum for public school boards and private institutions for close to 15 years.  Steve's email: sgennaro@yorku.ca

 

Mona Gleason is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research focuses on the history of children, education, and the family. She is the author of Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1999), co-editor, with Adele Perry, of  Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 5th Edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006) and is currently writing a history of children's medical treatment in English Canada over the twentieth century. Mona’s email:  mona.gleason@ubc.ca

 

Janet Golden is Professor of History at Rutgers University.  She is writing, with Lynn Weiner, a history of babies in modern America and is the co-editor of the recently (2008) published Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. She is also a Newsletter editor.  Contact Janet at jgolden@camden.rutgers.edu

 

Amy Harris is an assistant professor of British and European history at Brigham Young University.  She is currently revising her dissertation (Berkeley, 2006) about the history of siblings in eighteenth-century England into a book manuscript. Contact her at: amy.harris@byu.edu

 

Kathleen W. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, on leave 2007-2008 at the National Humanities Center. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child; American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999).  Her current project is a history of youth suicide in the United States, 1870 to the present.  She also edits the Newsletter and can be reached at kjwj@vt.edu

 

Daniel T. Kline is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His research concerns children, violence, and sacrifice in late-medieval England, and he has recent chapters concerning medieval children in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (2003), Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (2005), Essays on Medieval Childhood: Responses to Recent Debates (2007), and Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (2007). He edited Medieval Children's Literature (Routledge, 2003) and also author of The Electronic Canterbury Tales http://www.kankedort.net  Contact Dan at afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu

 

Laura L. Lovett is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938 and is currently researching the history of non-sexist early childhood education.  Email:  lovett@history.umass.edu

 

Sean Martin is Associate Curator for Jewish History at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939. His current research focuses on the history of Jewish child welfare associations in interwar Poland.  Sean is the Newsletter  editor for "Websightings."  Contact him at seanmartin1@juno.com

 

Jacob Middleton is a historian of education and occasional writer of popular history. He has a particular interest in violence as an aspect of the school experience. Email: jake@vacantspace.fsnet.co.uk

 

Jon Pahl is Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and has served as Visiting Professor of Religion at Temple and Princeton Universities.  He's the author of two books on the history of young people and religion in America, and a forthcoming book on religion and violence in American history. Jon is also the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.  Contact Jon at jpahl@ltsp.edu

 

David M. Pomfret is Associate 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

 

Heloísa Helena Rocha Pimenta is PhD in History of Education for São Paulo University, Brazil.  She is professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Campinas(UNICAMP), and participates in the Management Committee of Center of Education Memory of UNICAMP.  She is a member of the Brazilian Society of History of Education and of the SHCY. She develops research on the process of spreading of the elementary school in Brazil, between the end of 19th century and the earliest decades of 20th century, examining, more specifically, the relationships between hygiene and the school education.  Email: heloisah@unicamp.br

 

Dirk Schumann, Professor of History at Jacobs University, Bremen, has accepted the position of Christian-Gottlob-Heyne Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Göttingen and will start teaching there in October 2008. He has most recently co-edited (with Paul Betts and Alon Confino) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008) and is currently working on a project on education and discipline in Germany and the U.S. since 1945.  Email: d.schumann@jacobs-university.de

 

Gleb Tsipursky is currently writing a dissertation entitled "Pleasure, Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: The Komsomol Campaign to Organize Soviet Youth Leisure, 1955-1964" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While specializing in Soviet history, he seeks to engage scholars in other regions and fields in a broader dialogue that reflects his thematic interests, including childhood and youth, identity formation, state-society relations, and comparative cultural studies.  Email: tsipursk@email.unc.edu

 

Colleen A. Vasconcellos is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia. 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-Childhood. Email: cvasconc@westga.edu

 

Nancy Zey is Assistant Professor in History at Sam Houston State University.  In May 2007, she completed her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin, with a dissertation entitled "Rescuing Some Youthful Minds:  Benevolent Women and the Rise of the Orphan Asylum as Civic Household in Early Republic Natchez."  She has recently authored two publications relating to the history of children: "Children of the Public: Poor and Orphaned Minors in the Southwest Borderlands," in James Marten, ed., Children and Youth in a New Nation, New York University Press (forthcoming) and "'Every Thing but a Parent's Love': The Family Life of Orphan Asylums in the Lower Mississippi Valley," in Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour, eds., Southern Families:  Perspectives on Domesticity in the Old South, University of Georgia Press (forthcoming).  Since 2006, she has served as a list editor for H-Education. Contact Nancy at nancyzey@gmail.com