Notes on Contributors

Brett A. Berliner earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Massachusetts in 1999. Since then he has been Assistant Professor of History at Morgan State University, where he teaches courses in world history and Western civilization. His research specialty is modern French cultural history, and his first book, Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2002.

Ivan Crozier is a Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, 21 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, Scotland, UK. He researches the history of sexology and forensic psychiatry as well as other areas of science studies.

Scott Gunther, who is Assistant Professor of French at Wellesley College, received his J.D. from New York University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in French studies from the same university in 2001. His research interests include gender and sexuality in France, Franco-American relations, French mass media, and comparative (French and American) law. He has recently completed a book manuscript provisionally titled "The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France."

Ingrid Sharp studied at the Universities of Oxford and York and is now Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds, where she has worked since 1989. Her main research interest is the history of the German women's movement, with a particular interest in how social upheaval affects gender relations. Together with Jane Jordan, she is the editor of Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns (2004).