Contributors
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Matthew Bentley, University of East Anglia, Norwich United Kingdom
Matthew Bentley is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of East Anglia. His doctoral thesis explores the use of manhood as a tool of assimilation at the Carlisle Indian School between 1879 and 1918. Research interests include Native American history; the history of sport; American male identity; and the American West.
Paula S. Fass, University of California, Berkeley
Paula S. Fass's most recent book Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir (Rutgers, 2009) recalls her own childhood. She is the author of Children of a New World: Society, Culture and Globalization (New York, 2007) Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (Oxford, 2006), Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (Oxford, 1991), and The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (Oxford, 1979) and the editor of three volume Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (Gale, 2003). With Mary Ann Mason, she co-edited Childhood in America (New York, 2000). Fass was the President of the Society for the Study of Children and Youth (2007–2009), and is currently editing an essay collection Reinventing Childhood in the Post World War II World with Michael Grossberg.
Bryan Ganaway, College of Charleston
Bryan Ganaway received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. He is currently visiting assistant professor at the College of Charleston. His first book on consumer culture in Late Imperial Germany came out with Peter Lang in 2009. Ganaway is also a List Editor for H-German, a humanities listserv with three thousand members primarily in North America and Europe.
Alice Hearst, Smith College
Alice Hearst is Associate Professor in the Government Department of Smith College. Her work has focused on state regulation of citizenship through the family in the United States, and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled, Children and the Politics of Belonging. [End Page 310]
Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
Allen Guttmann has taught at Amherst College since 1959. Of his many studies of sports history, the most influential is From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports (Columbia, 1978) the most recent is Sports: The First Five Millennia (Massachusetts, 2004) and the next is Sports and American Art (forthcoming).
Loren Lerner, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
Loren Lerner is a professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. In 2005, she curated "Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood" at the McCord Museum. Lerner is editor of Depicting Canada's Children (Wilfrid Laurier, 2009). Her writings on the images of children include "William Notman's Portrait Photographs of the Wealthy English-speaking Girls of Montreal: Representations of Informal Female Education in Relation to John Ruskin's 'Of Queens' Gardens' and Writings by and for Canadians from the 1850s to 1890s," Historical Studies in Education (2009); "Canada Receiving the Homage of Her Children: George Reid's Ave Canada and Gustav Hahn's Hail Dominion," Journal of Canadian Art History (2008); "Adolescent Girls, Adult Women: Coming of Age Images by Five Canadian Women Artists," Girlhood Studies (2008); "When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists," Healing the World's Children (McGill-Queen's, 2008); and "From Victorian Girl Reader to Modern Woman Artist: Reading and Seeing in the Paintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and Prudence Heward," Canadian Children's Literature (2007).
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University
Peter N. Stearns has published widely in modern social history, including the history of emotions, and in world history. He has also edited encyclopedias of world and social history, and since 1967 has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History. He is currently at work on Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Happiness and the Modern Condition and World History: The Basics. As a social historian Dr. Stearns is eager to explore aspects of the human experience that are not generally thought of in historical terms, and with attention to ordinary people as well as elites. [End Page 311]
