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  • Contributors

Edith Snook is an associate professor of English at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). She is the author of Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (2005), as well as several articles on early modern women’s writing. She is currently working on her second book, entitled Regarding Beauty in Early Modern Women’s Writing.

Sylvia D. Hoffert is a professor of history at Texas A & M University where she teaches courses in women’s history, gender history, and women’s studies. Her most recent book is a biography of nineteenth–century abolitionist and feminist Jane Grey Swisshelm. She can be contacted at shoffert@tamu.edu.

Susannah Walker teaches modern U.S. history, women’s history, African American history, and the history of consumer culture at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk. Her first book, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, was published by The University Press of Kentucky in February of 2007. She may be reached at swalker@vwc.edu.

Ann Chisholm is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her current research investigates intersections between gender, corporeality, popular culture, and materializations of subjectivity. She recently has completed a book–length manuscript entitled “Ladies of the House: Nineteenth–Century Women’s Gymnastics, Disciplinarity, and Incorporations of Femininity.” She also is writing a book that maps the dynamics and history of body doubling in U.S. cinema. She can be contacted at achisholm@ucla.edu.

Penny Tinkler is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. She has written extensively on twentieth–century British girlhood and the history of women and smoking and is currently researching youth and photography in the 1950s and 1960s. Her books include: Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines for Girls Growing Up in England, 1920–1950 (1995) and Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture in Britain (2006). [End Page 219]

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh teaches History at Vancouver Island University –Malaspina Campus, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada and is the Editor–in–Chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. She has published several books, including Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat and the upcoming Women and Health in North America since 1800: Rituals, Technologies and Professions and Gender, Health and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives.

E. Thomas Ewing is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. He teaches courses in European and world history, women’s history, and historical methods. His publications include The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools in the 1930s (2002), and articles in Russian Review, Gender & History, History of Education Quarterly, and the Journal of Women’s History. He is editor of Revolution and Pedagogy: Transnational Perspectives on the Social Foundations of Education (2005), and coeditor with David Hicks of Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History (2006). His current research on coeducational and single–sex schooling in modern Russian history is supported by a Spencer Foundation research grant.

Heather L. Gumbert is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in modern European history, media history, and visual culture. Her research focuses on the history of television and its emergence and impact on political culture in the former German Democratic Republic. Her publications include “Split Screens: Television in East Germany, 1952–89,” in Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth–Century Germany, ed. Karl Christian Führer and Corey Ross (2006). She is the recipient of the Barnes F. Lathrop Prize of the University of Texas at Austin for her dissertation “East German Television and the Unmaking of the Socialist Project,” and is currently revising the dissertation for publication.

David Hicks is an associate professor and program area leader of history and social science education in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. A former middle– and high–school history teacher, and museum curator/ educator, he is currently chair of the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). His works include a coedited book with E. Thomas Ewing entitled Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History (2006...

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