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  • Contributors

Barbara Cutter received her PhD in 1999 from Rutgers University. She is associate professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels: The Radicalism of American Womanhood, 1830–1865 (Northern Illinois Press, 2003). She is currently working on a book–length project on Northwoods Vacations, Gender, and the Culture of Outdoor Recreation in America, 1850s–1920s. She can be contacted at Barbara.cutter@uni.edu.

Angela Wanhalla is a lecturer in New Zealand, Māori, and Canadian history at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently completing a manuscript on the history of interracial marriage and cultural encounters in southern New Zealand. She can be contacted atangela.wanhalla@otago.ac.nz.

C. Joseph Genetin–Pilawa received his PhD in History from Michigan State University in 2008 and is now assistant professor of nineteenth–century United States history at Illinois College. He is currently revising his dissertation, entitled “Confining Indians: Power, Authority, and the Colonialist Ideologies of Nineteenth–Century Reformers,” into a book manuscript.

Mary Ann Villarreal is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research and teaching explore issues of race, gender, and community relations through the lens of business.

Francie R. Chassen–López is Chair and Professor of the Department of History at the University of Kentucky. She specializes in Latin American history (Mexico) with an emphasis on gender, ethnicity, and nation–building. She received her MA and PhD from the National university of Mexico and taught in Mexican universities for ten years before returning to the United States. Her most recent book, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911 (Penn State University Press, 2004) won the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies’s Thomas McGann Prize for the Best Book on Latin America in 2004. Her articles have appeared in The Americas, the Journal of Women’s History, Historia Mexicana, Acervos, Eslabones, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Cuadernos del Sur, Guchachi Reza, Latinoamérica, and in various edited volumes. She is currently writing [End Page 192] a full–length biography of Juana Catarina Romero (an entrepreneur and political boss in late–nineteenth–century southern Mexico) in order to explore how women have participated in state formation and nation–building.

Iris Berger is professor of history, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies at the University at Albany and a past director of the Institute for Research on Women. Her books include the award–winning Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period; Women and Class in Africa, co–edited with Claire Robertson; Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980; Women in Sub–Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History, with E. Frances White; and South Africa in World History, forthcoming in 2008. She is also an editor of the recently published Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. In 1995–96, she served as the elected president of the African Studies Association.

Leila J. Rupp is professor of women’s studies and Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (2003) and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (1987), and author of A Desired Past: A Short History of Same–Sex Sexuality in America (1999), Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997), and Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945 (1978). She is currently working on a new book called “Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women.” She edited the Journal of Women’s History from 1996 to 2004.

Ulrike Strasser is associate professor of history and affiliate faculty in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State (university of Michigan Press, 2004; paperback 2007). The study received the Award for “Best Book Published in 2004” from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and was...

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