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  • Contributors

Cynthia A. Connolly, University of Pennsylvania

Cynthia Connolly, Ph.D., R.N., is a health care historian and pediatric nurse practitioner. She is an associate professor at the School of Nursing and author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909 -1970, (Rutgers, 2008).

Meghan Crnic, University of Pennsylvania

Meghan Crnic, M.A., is a doctoral candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "Better Babies: Social Engineering for 'a better nation, a better world.'" Endeavour 33(2009), 13–18.

Staffan Förhammar, Linkoping University, Sweden

Staffan Förhammar is Professor of History and has worked with the doctoral program at Linkoping's Center for Disability Research. He is the author of numerous works, including Med känsla eller förnuft?: Svensk debatt om filantropi 1870–1914, (Stockholm, 2000), a study of philanthropy in Sweden, and Från tärande till närande. Funktionshinder, utbildning och socialpolitik i Sverige (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2007) that deals with the development of social and educational policy in relation to disability in Sweden. He and Marie C. Nelson are currently studying Sweden's coastal sanatoria.

Janet Golden, Rutgers University, Camden

Janet Golden is professor of History and the author of numerous books and articles including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Harvard, 2005). She is a co-editor with Cynthia Comacchio and George Weisz of Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (McGill-Queens, 2008). She is writing a book on the history of babies in the 20th-century United States.

Marie C. Nelson, Linköping University, Sweden

Marie Nelson is professor of Social History and has worked with the doctoral program at Linkoping's Center for Disability Research. She has written articles [End Page 297] in Swedish and English on famine in nineteenth-century Sweden, infectious diseases and their consequences, and the development of health policy in the Swedish context. She and Staffan Förhammar have co-edited an anthology dealing with historical perspectives on disability. They are currently studying Sweden's coastal sanatoria.

Diana Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Diana Pasulka is associate professor of Religious Studies, and her research interests include nineteenth-century religious literature and the history of U.S. Catholicism, particularly Catholic youth. Her forthcoming book is Purgatory and the Rise of the Gothic in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford).

Martha Saxton, Amherst College

Martha Saxton is one of the editors of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies. She has written Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography (Farrar Strauss, 1995) and Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America (Hill and Wang, 2003). She is currently working on a biography of Mary Ball Washington, the founding father's mother.

Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University

Shurlee Swain is professor at Australian Catholic University and a senior research fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has written many articles, chapters, and books on the history of childhood in Australia and is co-author of the forthcoming Child, Nation, Race, Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915 (Manchester, 2009).

Bruno Vanobbergen, Ghent University, Belgium

Bruno Vanobbergen received his Ph.D. in 2003 in Educational Sciences for a study of the commodification of childhood. Vanobbergen is currently a post-graduate research fellow in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University focusing on Childhood Studies and History of Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Childhood.

Lisa Wexler, University of Massachusetts

Dr. Wexler is assistant professor at the Department of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts. She has been working in Northwest Alaska [End Page 298] since1995 with Inupiaq organizations and community members in defining, structuring and carrying out research projects focused on suicide prevention, substance use and abuse, mental health service systems, and youth resilience.

Lauren F. Winner, Duke

Lauren Winner is assistant professor at Duke Divinity School. This piece is adapted from her study of Anglican religious practice in 18th-century Virginia, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith (Yale, forthcoming). [End Page 299]

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