Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Sarah R. Arvey received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2007. Her dissertation explored the links between social reform, sexuality, and family in Cuba to describe how Cubans’ ideas about sexual propriety influenced their efforts to create a democratic republic. Another article based upon her research is published in the Hispanic American Historical Review (90, no. 4 [2010]: 627–59). She currently conducts research and evaluation of cancer survivorship programs for LIVESTRONG in Austin, Texas.
Toni Brennan is a writer with more research interests than it is sane to have, from history of psychology and critical social psychology to lgbtq studies, to literature and all forms of art. She is the first researcher to engage with the Charlotte Wolff Archive in London, an amazing experience that has yielded a number of articles.
Carol E. Harrison is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is currently working on a book on gender and Catholicism in postrevolutionary France.
Peter Hegarty is a social psychologist and historian of psychology who conducts research on sexuality, gender, and science. His recent work has focused on knowledge, politics, androcentrism, and a major project on gender politics in research on intellectual giftedness. He is currently completing his first book for the University of Chicago Press on the 1948 debate between Alfred Kinsey and the psychologist Lewis Terman. He teaches in the Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
Mary McAlpin is associate professor of French at the University of Tennessee. She has published articles on Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, [End Page 198] Laclos, and other eighteenth-century French writers. Her second book, Sexuality and Cultural Degeneration in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature, is forthcoming from Ashgate Press.
Dennis Romano is the Dr. Walter G. Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books on late medieval and early modern Venice, including The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373–1457 (Yale University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a study of markets and marketplaces in medieval Italian cities.
Nicholas L. Syrett is assistant professor of history at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches classes on the history of women, sexuality, and family in the United States. He is the author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and is at work on a book about child marriage and the regulation of children’s sexuality in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States.
Leigh Ann Wheeler will publish her book about how sex became a civil liberty with Oxford University Press in 2012. She is an associate professor of history at Binghamton University (State University of New York), coeditor of the Journal of Women’s History, and the author of Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). [End Page 199]
