SHCY Newsletter #7 (Winter 2006)

Editors and Contributors to the SHCY "Newsletter," Issue #7

Jennifer de Forest is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches educational history. Her research includes the history of philanthropic foundations’ role in school reform efforts and the promotion of conservative college student movements.

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

Margot Hillel is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Sciences, Victoria, Australian Catholic University. She has been National President of the Children's Book Council of Australia (1993-4); is currently President of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (current); and an elected member of International Research Society for Children's Literature, She has co-edited three collections of short stories for young adults, written a number of books on using children's literature in the classroom and has wide experience in judging books for children and young people. And, she is co-editor of the SHCY Newsletter. Email: M.Hillel@patrick.acu.edu.au

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 co-editor and a regular contributor to the Newsletter. Email: mehinder@uchicago.edu

Greg Johnson is an assistant professor of comparative culture at Otsuma Women's University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. candidate in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Indiana University. His dissertation is on childhood and schooling in wartime Japan.

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 theLimits 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

Brian Low teaches at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.

Cathlena Martin, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, researches and teaches children's literature and culture, comics, film, and new media. Her dissertation work focuses on the changing nature of children's literature and culture in a digital age.

Helen Martin taught part-time in children's literature at the University of South Australia, Magill Campus while completing my PhD on Australian preschool picture books and televison programs as tools for teaching literacy to young children. Since earning her degree mid-2005 she has been reviewing children's books, and she is now on the committee of the Children's Book Council (SA) Branch. This year she has been selected to be the SA judge for the CBCA Awards for 2005/6.

Sean Martin is Associate Curator for Jewish History at The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working on a study of Jewish child welfare in interwar Poland. As co-editor of the Newsletter, he acted as the coordinator for this issue on film. Email: seanmartin1@juno.com

Steven Mintz is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston. The Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and President of H-Net, he is the author, most recently, of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard).

Allison Wright Munro is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include cheerleading in American history and culture, youth cultures, girls' studies, sports cultures, and crime and punishment

Kenneth Pearl is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Queensborough Community College. He received his Ph.D. in British history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is currently interested in films pertaining to the Cold War. Email: KPearl@qcc.cuny.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 SaintEtienne, 1890-1940 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). David co-edits with Nancy Zey the "News from the Field" column. Email: pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk

Julie Smith received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in social history. She was in the history department at Dakota State University before joining the history department at University of North Carolina at Pembroke to become the coordinator of the social studies education program. She teaches upper division courses in social and cultural history, including the history of American Popular Culture, in addition to social studies methods courses.

Beth Sneyd is a Master of Arts Candidate in the War Studies Department at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. She studied animation in high school and cultivated her interest in Studio Ghibli movies while teaching English in Japan.

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