SHCY Newsletter #6 (Summer 2005)

Editors and Contributors to the SHCY "Newsletter" Issue #6

Joe Austin is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City (2001). He i is currently working on the development of print-zines and globalizations among goths and graffiti writers.

Sarah Duff is an MA student in the Department of History at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is currently completing her dissertation, "Head, Heart, and Hand: Constructions of Middle Class Afrikaner Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary, 1874-1910."

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 edits the "Canadian Happenings" column of the "Newsletter." 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, the most recent of which is The Family in America; An Encyclopedia (ABC Clio, 2001), 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 the past 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 regular contributor to the "Newsletter." Email: mehinder@uchicago.edu

Kathleen W. Jones co-edits the SHCY "Newsletter" with Sean Martin, Colleen Vasconcellos, and Margot Hillel. 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

Kriste Lindenmeyer, current president of SHCY, is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Her new book, The Greatest Generation Grows Up: Childhood in 1930s America, will be published in November with Ivan R. Dee Publishers. Email: lindenme@umbc.edu

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

Heather Munro Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine (Harvard University Press, 1998).

Colleen A. Vasconcellos is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia. She is currently working on a monograph based on her dissertation, "And a Child Shall Lead Them?: Slavery,Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica, 1750-1838." 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: 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