Contributors

Contributors HARRIET HYMAN ALONSO is professor of history at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. She is the author of several artides and two books on women and peace: TL· Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942 (1989) and Peace as a Women's Issue: The U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights (1993). She is also co-editor of the Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution series and Vice President of the Peace History Soddy (formerly the Coundl on Peace Research in History). She is currently working on a history of the Garrison and VUlard famüies, tentatively titled The Garrison Family: Making the Political Personal. ANNE EPSTEIN is a doctoral student in European history at Indiana University . Her dissertation research focuses on women's partidpation in inteUectual Ufe and the construction of inteUectuaUty in the Frendi Third Republic. SONDRA R. HERMAN is an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She has written several artides on Alva Myrdal and is at work on Myrdal's political biography. Her past works indude a book on American internationalism and articles about women's contribution to the Swedish welfare state. KATHLEEN KENNEDY is an assistant professor of arts and humanities at the University of Texas, Dallas. She is currently completing a study of women's trials under the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I. SHAWNEE L. MCMURRAN is an assistant professor of mathematics at Providence CoUege. She was educated at the University of California at Riverside. Her background is in partial differential equations and her current research interest is in the coUaborative works of the Cambridge mathematicians Dame Mary Cartwright, F.R.S., and J. E. Littlewood, F.R.S. KAREN OFFEN is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She coedited, with Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane RendaU, Writing Women's History: International Perspectives (1991) and is currently completing books on the woman question in modern France and on European feminism, 1700-1950. VIRGINIA SCHARFF is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming 1995 Contributors 225 of the Motor Age (1991), and coauthor of Present Tense: The United States Since 1945 (1992). She is interested in U.S. women's, cultural, technological, and environmental history, and has recently been trying to see how postmodern theory might prove useful for historians of the American West. Her current projeds indude a book on women, power, and place in the West, and a textbook on the United States in the twentieth century. HAMMED SHAHIDIAN is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His current research concentrates on women's dandestine poUtical activism in Iran and refugee issues. AMY SWERDLOW is professor of history and diredor of the Graduate Program in Women's History, emérita, at Sarah Lawrence CoUege. She writes on women's movements for peace and sodal justice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her most recent pubUcations are Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s (1993); "Abolition's Conservative Sisters," in An Untrodden Path: Anti-Slavery and Women's Political Culture, ed. John C. Van Home and Jean Fagan Yeltin (1994); and "The Congress of American Women: Left Feminist Peace PoUtics and the Cold War," in American History as Women's History, ed. Linda K. Kerber, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Atice Kessler-Harris (1994). JAMES J. TATTERSALL is a professor of mathematics at Providence CoUege, where he has taught since 1969. He is currently visiting professor of mathematics at the United States Müitary Academy at West Point. His current research is on the early Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University. MARY TRIGG teaches in the Women's Studies Program at Rutgers University . She earned her Ph.D. in American dvilization from Brown University, with an expertise in American women's history. She is currently directing "Rutgers Women: A Living History," an oral history projed focusing on the first generation of women to graduate from Rutgers CoUege after...