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  • Contributors

Sheridan Bartlett
Sheridan Bartlett is a research fellow in the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and a research associate at CERG (the Children's Environments Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York). She has worked primarily in Asia on issues related to children and their environments, providing support to a range of international and local organizations, and has published on various topics as they pertain to children (including disaster relief, local governance, donor assistance, urban living conditions and environmental rights). She is an editor of the journal Environment and Urbanization.

Adriana S. Benzaquén
Adriana S. Benzaquén is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Canada). She is the author of Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006) and of articles on the science of childhood in the European Enlightenment. Her current project is a study of childhood, family, friendship and gender in early modern England, focusing on the correspondence between John Locke and his friends Edward and Mary Clarke.

Amanda M. Brian
Amanda M. Brian is an Assistant Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. She is completing studies on the quintessential Berlin artist Heinrich Zille and the faux history of The Villages, Florida. She is also actively working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Birth of the Scientific Child about the science of childhood that emerged in the Second German Empire and its role in modern European imperialism. Brian received her Ph.D. in modern European history in 2009 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Cornelia Lambert
Cornelia Lambert finished her Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in December 2010. She continues to work on her dissertation project, a reevaluation of the educational reforms of Robert Owen. She lives and teaches in Norman, OK. [End Page 529]

Erika Lorraine Milam
Erika Lorraine Milam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). She has written on a range of topics relating to the history of evolutionary theory, gender and science, and the connections between the natural and social sciences. Before joining the Maryland faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.

Rebecca Stiles Onion
Rebecca Stiles Onion is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently finishing a dissertation titled When Science Became Child's Play: Science, Technology, and American Childhood, 1890-1970. Her research blog, Songbirds and Satellites, can be found at www.rebeccaonion.com.

Anna Christina Rose
Anna Christina Rose is the author of "Between Psychology and Pedagogy: 'moral orthopedics' and Case Studies of Children in fin-de-siècle French Medicine," History of Psychology 14 (2011): 26-52. She is completing a book entitled Feminine Subjects: Girls, Medicine, and Body Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (under contract with Ashgate Press). Since earning her doctorate at the Humanities Center of Johns Hopkins University, she has taught world civilization, European history, and gender history at the University of Oklahoma and Miami University of Ohio.

Anthony A. Volk
Anthony A. Volk is a developmental psychologist interested in the area of parenting and child development. A strong believer in multidisciplinary studies, Dr. Volk's overall interest is to gain an evolutionary, neurological, medical, cultural, social, and historical understanding of why parents and children do what they do. [End Page 530]

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