SHCY Bulletin

Society for the History of Children and Youth

Contributors

Jim Block teaches political theory at DePaul University. He is author of A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Society (2002); The Crucible of Consent:  American Child-Rearing and the Forging of a Liberal Society is forthcoming.

Priscilla Ferguson Clement edits the conference reports for the SHCY Bulletin. She is the author of several books and articles on the history of American children in the 19th Century. She is retired from Penn State and is currently completing a novel in which the history of teens in the 1950s figures.  She can be reached at p4c@psu.edu.

Daniel T. Cook, is Director of the Graduate Studies Program, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, adjunct in Sociology and an Associate in the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. He serves as editor for Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, has authored The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer Culture (2004), and edited Symbolic Childhood (2002) and The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008).

Rebecca de Schweinitz teaches history at Brigham Young University and is the author of If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality 2009).

Stephen Gennaro edits the Bulletin’s pedagogy column is a cultural historian of media and youth at York University in Toronto.  His main areas of interest is “perpetual adolescence” which examines the many ways that the culture industries market “youthfulness” to young and old consumers alike.  Steve has over 10 years of teaching experience (teaching all levels from kindergarten to graduate students) and almost 15 years of experience in curriculum development.  Steve's email: sgennaro@yorku.ca

Harvey J. Graff directs the Program in Literacy Studies and is a member of the Departments of English and History, The Ohio State University. He is author of Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (l995); and editor of Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences, editor (1987)

Julia Grant is professor of history and public affairs at James Madison College, Michigan State University.  She is currently writing a book on the origins of the “boy problem” in urban America for Johns Hopkins University Press.  Her email address is grant@msu.edu.

Patrizia Guarnieri is associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Florence, Italy, where she is also member of the Equal Opportunity Committee. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard; Nato-CNR Fellow at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in London; Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, and lecturer in the Overseas Program of Stanford University.  Her publications include Bambini e salute in Europe 1750-2000/Children and Health in Europe 1750-2000 (ed., Polistampa 2004) and In scienza e coscienza. Maternità nascite e aborto (ed., Carocci 2009 )  Patrizia and Kathleen were the conference photographers.  Contact her at patrizia.guarnieri@unifi.it

Colin M. Heywood teaches history at the University of Nottingham. He is author of A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times (2001) and Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic (2007).

Kathleen W. Jones is associate professor of history at Virginia Tech.  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 SHCY Bulletin and can be reached at kjwj@vt.edu

Julia Mickenberg is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Oxford UP, 2006), which won the Grace Abbott prize from SHCY for 2005-2006.

Steven Mintz, after many years as the Moores Professor of History at the University of

Houston, became the Director of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center at Columbia University in 2008.  The creator of the Digital History website, he is a member of Columbia's History Department and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Film & History, the History Teacher, the Journal of Family Life, and Slavery & Abolition.  His 13 books include Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood and Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. He is currently writing a history of American adulthood.  Email: sm3031@columbia.edu

Tamara Myers teaches history at the University of British Columbia.  Her book, Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2006.

Jennifer Ritterhouse teaches history at Utah State University. She is author of Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race (2006)

Deborah Valentine is a PhD Candidate in Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. She comes to Rutgers-Camden from her recent position as Research Associate at St. Joseph University's Child Development Lab.

Lynne Vallone, Professor of Childhood Studies, is Chair of the Childhood Studies Department at Rutgers-Camden. She also teaches in the English Department and is an Associate in the Center for Children and Childhood Studies. Her research and teaching interests include children’s literature and culture, the visual and material cultures of childhood and girlhood, and the Victorian Age.  She is the author of Disciplines of Virtue: Girls‚ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1995) and Becoming Victoria (2001) and the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children‚s Literature (2005).

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. Her forthcoming book with Jennifer Hillman Helgren entitled Girlhood: A Global History, is scheduled for publication in early 2010 with

Rutgers University Press. 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 and is currently working on a manuscript looking at childwelfare in early republic Natchez, Mississippi.  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 (2009) 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., Family Values in the Old South, University Press of Florida (2009).  Contact Nancy at nancyzey@shsu.edu.

Michael Zuckerman teaches history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-editor with Willem Koops, of Beyond the Century of the Child: Cultural History and Developmental Psychology (2003 ) among other writings about American childhood.