Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Timothy J. Gilfoyle is the author of City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920 (W. W. Norton, 1992), A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York (W. W. Norton, 2006), and Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and the coauthor (with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz) of The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He teaches American history at Loyola University Chicago.
Cheryl D. Hicks is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches African American, American, and gender history. Her publications include “Talk with You like a Woman”: Urban Reform, Criminal Justice, and African American Women in New York, 1890–1935 (forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press).
Val Marie Johnson is an associate professor of feminist criminology and of women and gender studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published articles on various aspects of gender and sexual regulation in the context of multifaceted politics, citizenship, and governance in New York City from 1880 to 1920 and is working on a book-length manuscript on this topic. Val has also coedited an essay collection on theories of crime television and governance and is researching the history of youth justice law reform and shifts in liberalism in 1960s and 1970s Canada.
Mary Ting Yi Lui is an associate professor of American studies and history at Yale University. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century [End Page 555] New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). She is currently working on a new book project examining the history of Asian Americans in U.S. cultural diplomacy efforts in Asia during the early years of the cold war.
Don Romesburg works as an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Trained as a historian with interdisciplinary emphases in gender and sexuality studies, he has published on early-twentieth-century U.S. social science, cultures and discourses of adolescence and homosexuality, the social history of queer performers, and male intimacy in popular culture. He is also on the board of the GLBT Historical Society. [End Page 556]
