Notes on Contributors
Katherine Clark is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Brockport, where she teaches medieval and ancient history. Her research focuses on gender and religion in medieval social and cultural history. She has contributed to the encyclopedia Women and Gender in Medieval Europe and is completing a book entitled The Profession of Widowhood: Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness.
Edward Ross Dickinson teaches at the University of California at Davis. He has published on the history of child welfare, sex reform and moral reform, biopolitics, and the women's movements. His current research is on European Alpinism.
Gillian Frank is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Civilization at Brown University. He researches the histories of sexuality, popular culture, women's activism, and childhood in the twentieth-century United States. He is currently completing a dissertation entitled "Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965–1990."
Heather Murray is a lecturer in the history department at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is working on a manuscript called "Not in This Family: Gays and Their Parents in North America, 1945–1990s." She is also doing research on twentieth-century confessional and therapeutic cultures.
William Pencak is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Films of Derek Jarman (McFarland, 2002) and Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800 (University of Michigan Press, 2005), which was runner-up for the National Book Award in American Jewish History. His main fields are early American and Pennsylvania history, in which he has published and edited numerous books, and semiotics. In 2000–2001 he was president of the Semiotic Society of America.
