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Jennifer Anne Davy is currently writing her dissertation on the German women's peace movement from 1892–1933 at the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Technical University of Berlin. <jedav26@ginko.de>

Beatrice Farnsworth is professor of history at Wells College. She is author of several articles on the history of Russian women and Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution (Stanford University Press, 1980). Her recent work focuses on Russian peasant women. She is co-editor with Lynne Viola of Russian Peasant Women (Oxford University Press, 1992). <bfarnsworth@wells.edu>

Tracy Fessenden teaches religious studies, women's studies, and humanities at Arizona State University. She is co-editor of The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature (Routledge, 2001) and is completing a book on secularization and American literature for Princeton University Press. <tracyf@asu.edu>

Heather Fowler-Salamini is professor of history and chair of the history department at Bradley University, where she teaches Latin American history and women's studies. She is author of Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920–1938 (University of Nebraska Press, 1978) and co-editor with Mary Kay Vaughan of Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990 (University of Arizona Press, 1994). <hfs@bumail.bradley.edu>

Kirsten E. Gardner is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where she teaches U.S. history, women's history, and gender studies. She is currently working on a case study of cancer education programs in South Texas. <kgardner@utsa.edu>

Donna J. Guy is professor of history at Ohio State University. Her publications include Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (University of Nebraska Press, 1991), and White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America (Bison Books, 2000). She is co-editor of Feminisms and Internationalism (Blackwell, 1999). She is currently working on a book about street children in Argentina. <dguy@earthlink.net> [End Page 223]

Nancy A. Hewitt is professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa Florida, 1880s–1920s (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and editor of the Companion to American Women's History (Blackwell, 2002).<nhewitt@rci.rutgers.edu>

Suellen Hoy is an independent historian and guest professor at University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (Oxford University Press, 1995), "The Journey Out: The Recruitment and Emigration of Irish Religious Women to the United States, 1812–1914," Journal of Women's History 7, no. 1 (1995), and "Caring for Chicago Women and Girls: The Sisters of the Good Shepherd," Journal of Urban History (1997). She is currently working on a history of Catholic sisters and African Americans in Chicago. <suellen.m.hoy.3@nd.edu>

Joan Marie Johnson has published several articles on South Carolina women, memory, race, and reform. She recently edited a collection of letters entitled Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882–1916 (University of South Carolina Press, 2002). The recipient of a Spencer Foundation grant, she is currently scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where she is researching higher education for southern women at northern colleges.

Mary Mccune is visiting assistant professor in women's studies at the State University of New York at Oswego. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "Charity Work as Nation-Building: American Jewish Women and the Crises in Europe and Palestine, 1914–1930." <mccune@oswego.edu>

W. Flagg Miller is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Inscribing the Muse: Political Poetry and the Discourse of Circulation in the Yemeni Cassette." <flagg@uchicago.edu>

Mary Louise Roberts is associate professor of history at Stanford University. Her first book, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1927 (University of Chicago Press, 1994), won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly award for the best book in women's history. Her latest book, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin...

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