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  • Contributors

Daniel A. Cohen, Case Western Reserve University

Daniel A. Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He has written on a wide range of topics relating to crime, religion, gender, sexuality, youth, and popular culture in early America. His publications include Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674–1860 (Oxford University Press, 1993); "The Female Marine" and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997); and many articles in scholarly journals, including, most recently, "Making Hero Strong: Teenage Ambition, Story-Paper Fiction, and the Generational Recasting of American Women's Authorship," Journal of the Early Republic (Spring 2010).

Corinne Field, University of Virginia

Corinne Field is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and a fellow in residence at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is completing a book manuscript Perpetual Minors: Women's Rights and the Struggle for Equal Adulthood in the Atlantic World. This monograph recasts the history of feminism from the 1790s to the 1930s as a transnational, interracial struggle to win women respect as fully realized adults. Field received her Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University in 2008.

Jordi Getman-Eraso, Bronx Community College, CUNY

Jordi Getman-Eraso is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. He is a specialist in modern Spanish history and is currently writing a book on the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement during the Second Republic period (1931–1936).

Nashaat Hussein, Misr International University Cairo, Egypt

Nashaat Hussein is Assistant Professor in the Mass Communication and Alsun Department of Misr International University in Cairo. He is the author of Street Children in Egypt: Group Dynamics and Subcultural Constituents (The American University in Cairo Press, 2005), and is currently writing a book on [End Page 355] the Sociology of Childhood: An alternative for understanding children and adolescents in Egypt.

Taylor Long, Pursue Ltd., Beirut, Lebanon

Taylor Long works in Beirut, Lebanon with the research and consultancy firm Pursue Ltd. He is the author of numerous articles relating to Palestinian refugee life in Lebanon. A graduate of New York University (B.A., 2006) and the American University of Beirut (M.A., 2008), he enrolls in 2011 at the University of Michigan as a doctoral student in Social Work and Political Science.

Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University

Martha A. Sandweiss is Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (Yale University Press, 2002) and Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press, 2009), and has written widely on the history of American photography. She began her career at the Amon Carter Museum and subsequently taught for twenty years at Amherst College. [End Page 356]

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