Contributors
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Susan Levine is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Labor's True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age (Temple University Press, 1984) and Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth Century Feminism (Temple University Press, 1994), as well as articles on working-class standard-of-living and consumer culture. Her forthcoming book, Fixing Lunch: Food and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press) is a history of the National School Lunch Program.
Susan Porter Benson was an historian of American labor and gender. She taught history at the University of Connecticut, Storrs from 1993 to 2005 and directed the Women's Studies Program there for five years. Sue was the author of Household Accounts: Working Class Families in the Interwar USA (Cornell, 2007), Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940 (University of Illinois Press, 1986), and numerous articles and chapters on gender, family, and work.
Val Marie Johnson received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2002, and is now assistant professor of feminist criminology and women's and gender studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research interests center on the theoretical and historical analysis of how different groups produce and govern identities, bodies, resources, communities, and space—particularly in cities. She has recently published essays on New York City electoral campaigns against vice and the incorporation of immigrants (1890–1901), the moral citizenship of Jewish women in New York City (1890–1920), and women, immigration, and the historical intersection of federal and municipal policing. In addition to revising her dissertation on the history of moral citizenship and governance in New York City into a book manuscript, she is coediting interdisciplinary collections on the criminalization of poverty, and on the television franchise CSI. Her most recent research is an investigation of Canadian juvenile justice reform and liberal forms of governance from 1960 to 1982.
Donica Belisle recently completed her PhD in Canadian studies at Trent University. She is revising her dissertation into a book entitled Consumer [End Page 248] Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada. Her articles on Canadian consumer history have appeared in Labour/Le Travail and The Canadian Historical Review. She can be contacted at dbelisle@rogers.com.
Katrina Srigley is assistant professor of history at Nipissing University in Ontario, Canada. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Toronto; her dissertation is titled "Working Lives and Simple Pleasures: Single, Employed Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929–1939." She can be contacted at katrinas@nipissingu.ca.
Karen Balcom is assistant professor of history at McMaster University. She is at work on a book manuscript entitled "The Traffic in Babies: Cross Border Adoption, Baby-Selling and the Development of Child Welfare Systems in the United States and Canada, 1930–1970." She can be contacted at balcomk@mcmaster.ca.
Tobias Hübinette (Korean name Lee Sam-dol) earned a PhD in Korean studies in the Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden in 2005. His PhD thesis, "Comforting an Orphaned Nation," examines images of international adoption and representations of adopted Koreans in Korean media and popular culture. He is currently working on a project dealing with Korean adoptees and the issue of transraciality. He can be contacted at tobias.hubinette@mkc.botkyrka.se.
Anita M. Andrew is a specialist in Chinese history at Northern Illinois University. Her essay is part of a book manuscript, "From China's Daughters to All-American Girls: Essays on American Adoptions of Chinese Children." She is also completing a study of American humanitarian campaigns to provide for Chinese children in times of natural disaster, war, and neglect entitled "Saving China's Children: Business and Politics in the 20th Century American Humanitarian Campaigns to Aid China's Children." She can be contacted at aandrew@niu.edu.
Anne Collinson completed a master's degree in women's history at The Ohio State University in 2003. She recently returned to Toronto where she works for the Government of Ontario.
Karen Dubinsky teaches in the history department at...
