Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Cristian Berco is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is the author of Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain’s Golden Age (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and has published on the history of sexuality, gender, and disease.
Tuba Demirci is a sessional instructor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she teaches Ottoman and modern Turkish history and gender issues in the modern Middle East. Her research focuses on gender, family, and social welfare in the nineteenth century of the Ottoman Empire.
Torstein Jørgensen is a professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway. He is currently in charge of the project Church and Religion between Unity and Variety of the Norwegian and Nordic Centres of Excellence, focusing on the contribution of peripheral countries to medieval Europe. He has published several books and articles on historical processes of religious change and edited the Norwegian penitentiary supplications to the papal curia.
Kathryn Lofton is an assistant professor of American studies and religious studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. religious history, she has published on the evangelical preacher, theological modernism, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, masculinity in religious research, and the ritual practices of Oprah Winfrey’s multimedia empire.
Selçuk Akşin Somel is an assistant professor of history at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He teaches nineteenth-century Ottoman and [End Page 503] twentieth-century Turkish sociopolitical history, world diplomatic history after 1945, and gender history of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. His books include The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire 1839–1908 (Brill, 2001) and Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire (Scarecrow, 2003).
Elizabeth Stephens is a research fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia. She has published widely in the areas of queer theory, gender studies, and poststructuralism. Her publications include Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in the Fiction of Jean Genet (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan) and Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (forthcoming with Liverpool University Press). [End Page 504]
