Contributors

Contributors PATRICIA Cline COHEN is professor of history and chair of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Catifornia at Santa Barbara. She is currently finishUig a book about Helen Jewett, a New York City prostitute, whose murder Ui 1836 provoked national attention to issues of sexuality, gender, and sin in antebeUum America. Gayle Veronica Fischer recently completed work on her Ph.D. at Indiana University. She has written several artides on the nUieteenth-century dress reform movement Ui the United States. Fon LOUISE GORDON received her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas and is now a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky. Her research concerns the history of African Americans Ui the nUieteenth and twentieth centuries. Her book, Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. ANNE Meis Knupfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1992 and is currently assistant professor Ui the College of Education at the University of Memphis, where she teaches history and sociology of education . She is completing a book-length manuscript on African-American women's dubs in Chicago, 1890-1920. Christine Kooi is assistant professor of Renaissance and Reformation history at Louisiana State University, She recdved her Ph.D. Ui 1993 from Yale University, where she studied with Lee Palmer Wandel and David Underdown. Her dissertation, "The Reformed Community of Leiden, 1572-1620," explores the relationship of church and state in HoUand's second largest dty during the Dutdi Revolt against Habsburg Spain. Palouse Translation Project Members were aU students Ui Bonnie Frederick's Spanish translation seminar at Washington State University. Antonio Cruz, Juan Carlos Molina Sanjines, and Jennifer Newby are currently enroUed Ui the graduate program Ui Spanish at Washington State University. Rich Davies is instructor of Spanish at Whitman College m WaUa WaUa, Washington. Jeanette LUJAN DE Mouna is a public school teacher in Palouse, Washington. FRANCISCO Manzo Robledo is currently a dodoral student at Arizona State University. LlBARDO MITCHELL is a counselor-recruiter for the state of Washington's high school equivalency program. EUGENIO PACELLI VlLLARREAL is working on a PhD. Ui linguistics 1995 CONTRIBUTORS 201 at the State University of New York Ui Albany. VALENTINE ZlMNlTSKY is a doctoral student Ui Spanish at Ohio State University. Bonnie FREDERICK is associate professor of Spanish at Washington State University and is currently writing a book on nUieteenth-century Argentine women writers. PEGGY PASCOE is associate professor of history at the University of Utah. The author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (1990), she is now working on a history of miscegenation law tentatively entitled What Comes Naturally: Race, Sex, and Marriage Law, 1870-1993. ERICKA Kim VERBA is a doctoral candidate Ui history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her artide is part of her dissertation, "Where the 'Social Question' and the 'Woman's Question' Meet: Engendering Class Politics and ClassUying Gender Politics Ui ChUe, 1891-1925." She has published Ui Studies in Latin American Popular Culture and the LTCLA Historical Journal. ELSPETH WHITNEY is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century (1990) and is currently working on a study of the cultural symbolism of food Ui the medieval and early modem periods. ...