Contributors to the SHCY Newsletter, no. 8 (Summer 2006)

Elisabeth Boulot teaches at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.  At the international colloquium organized by GRAAT at the University Francois-Rabelais in Tours last year, she presented “Children with Disabilities and the American School System” based on her ongoing research.  Email: Boulot@univ-mlv.fr

Emily Cahan is an Associate Professor of Psychology and chair and the Department of Human Development at Wheelock College in Boston.  Most recently she co-edited with Barbara Beatty and Julia Grant the 2006 volume When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in 20th Century America published by Teachers College Press.  She has written several articles and book chapters on the history of developmental psychology.  Contact her at ecahan@rcn.com

E. Wayne Carp is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Pacific Lutheran University. Wayne is the author of Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (1998; 2000) and editor of Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives (2002).  His most recent book is Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58 (University of Kansas Press, 2004). Email: carpw@plu.edu

Meredith Eliassen is Curator of the Marguerite Archer Collection of Historic Children's Materials at San Francisco State University.  She has spoken and written articles about historic children literature, popular culture, and local San Francisco history.  She has just established "MME Designs" to focus on developing illustration projects. Contact her at:  eliassen@sfsu.edu

Mona Gleason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is currently writing a history of children's medical treatment in English Canada over the twentieth century.  Email:  mona.gleason@ubc.ca

Catherine Aurentz Griffith, EdM, is a doctoral student in Special Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She received her master's degree in education with concentrations in mind, brain, and education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught midle school in special education. Her research interests include identification of learning disabilities, corrective reading for adolescents with reading disabilities, brain plasticity following reading interventions, and the influence of federal and state policies on special education. Email: cag4h@virginia.edu

Margot Hillel  is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Sciences (Victoria) at Australian Catholic University and co-editor of the SHCY Newsletter. She has developed an original undergraduate course bringing together children's literature and the history of childhood. She has wide-ranging experience in the area of children's literature. She has been National President of the Children's Book Council of Australia; is Immediate Past President of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research ; 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. With Shurlee Swain from ACU  she has an Australian Research Council Discovery grant for a project entitled “Rescue the Innocent Child! Representations of Children at Risk 1850-1915: Australia and Canada Compared.” Contact Margot at M.Hillel@patrick.acu.edu.au

Moira Hinderer is a Ph.D candidate in the History Department at the University of Chicago.  She is currently completing the dissertation, "Making African-American Childhood: Chicago, 1917-1945."  Moira is a Newsletter co-editor; her email:  mehinder@uchicago.edu

Kathleen Jones is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at Virginia Tech, and she edits the SHCY Newsletter. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999), and is currently completing a history of twentieth-century youth suicide.  Her email is:  kjwj@vt.edu

Kriste Lindenmeyer is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her most recent book is The Great Generation Grows Up: Childhood in 1930s America (Ivan Dee, 2005).  Email for Kriste: lindenme@umbc.edu

David M. Pomfret is Assistant 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

Heather Munro Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in 1992.  Her research interests include history of medicine and public health, U.S. women’s history, history of childhood and adolescence, and most recently, disability history. Currently she is completing her second monograph, entitled Student Bodies: A Social History of College and University Health, which will be published by the University of Michigan Press in Spring 2007. Email: Prescott@ccsu.edu

Shurlee Swain is Reader in History at Australian Catholic University, Senior Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne and currently also co-editor of Australian Historical Studies.  She researches and publishes in the area of Australian and comparative social history with a particular interest in the history of women and children.  Email: S.Swain@aquinas.acu.edu.au

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 s a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Texas at Austin and will complete her degree in May 2007.  Her dissertation, "Rescuing Some Youthful Minds:  Benevolent Women and the Rise of the Civic Household in Early Republic Natchez," focuses on the FemaleCharitable Society and the establishment of an orphan asylum as an alternative form of child welfare.  With David Pomfret Nancy compiled the “News from the Field” column for the Newsletter.  She may be reached at nancyzey@mail.utexas.edu