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  • Contributors

Katherine Dalsimer, Cornell University, Columbia University, New York

Katherine Dalsimer is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer, and Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature, both published by Yale University Press.

Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham, U.K.

Colin Heywood is Professor of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham. His publications on the history of childhood include Childhood in Nineteenth Century France (1988), A History of Childhood (2001), and Growing Up in Modern France (2007). He is currently working on a history of childhood and youth in modern Europe.

Cecilia A. Green, Syracuse University

Cecilia Green is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Her areas of specialization include the historical sociology of the English-speaking Caribbean, with an emphasis on race, class, gender and social institutions, and contemporary issues of globalization and sovereignty. She has published numerous articles on race, class, gender, and sexuality during slavery; women's labor and evolution of social status; Caribbean political economy; and trajectories of dependent development and globalization. This article is part of a larger project on class, gender and penal systems in Barbados during the period 1875-1930.

Stephanie Tarbin, University of Western Australia,

Stephanie Tarbin lectures in medieval and early modern history at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests focus on gender, sexuality, and families in late-medieval and early modern England, and she has published essays on these topics. She co-edited Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern England, essays in honor of Professor Patricia Crawford, with Susan Broomhall and is currently working on a study of children's experiences [End Page 452] in early modern England, which is part of a collaborative project with Philippa Maddern and Claudia Jarzebowski.

Brian J. Els, University of Portland, Oregon

Brian Els is an Assistant Professor of History, and his research interests focus on Germany and Austria in the nineteenth century, particularly the areas of child welfare, orphan relief, and the interaction between public policy and private charity. Currently he is examining the creation of a network of privately-funded childcare facilities in the province of Upper Austria in the years after 1850. [End Page 453]

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