Contributors
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Daniel Thomas Cook is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, and serves as an Editor for the journal Childhood. He is author of The Commodification of Childhood 2004, editor of Symbolic Childhood 2002, Lived Experiences of Public Consumption 2008, and co-Editor with John Wall of Children and Armed Conflict 2011. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on consumer society, childhood, leisure and urban culture.
Paula S. Fass, Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley is a past President of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and the author of Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization 2007, Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America 1997, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education 1989, and The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977). Her most recent books are a family memoir, Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir 2009, and The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World 2012. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Linda Gordon teaches history at NYU. Her most recent book, a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, won the Bancroft prize for best book in US history, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and the National Arts Club prize for best arts writing. Her 1999 book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, the story of a vigilante action against Mexican- Americans, also won the Bancroft prize for best book in American history and the Beveridge prize for best book on the history of the Western Hemisphere.
Emily Hamilton-Honey is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at SUNY Canton. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University [End Page 499] of Massachusetts Amherst, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from Western Michigan University. Her book manuscript, Turning the Pages of American Girlhood: The Evolution of Girls’ Series Fiction, 1865–1930, is in production with McFarland Publishers. She also recently completed “Guardians of Morality: Librarians and American Girls’ Series Fiction, 1890—1950,” published in Library Trends. Her other research interests are wide, including American women in World War I, Glee fandom and teen sexuality, Louisa May Alcott, and Sherlock Holmes.
Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the history of education, life course, social structure, poverty, social welfare, immigration, and cities. His most recent books are (with Mark J. Stern) One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming 2006 and Why Don’t American Cities Burn? 2012.
Laura L. Lovett is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction and the Family in the United States, 1890–1930 2007. She is also the co-editor with Lori Rotskoff of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made 2012. She is one of the founding coeditors of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.
L. Halliday Piel is Assistant Professor of History at Lasell College, and teaches courses on modern Japan and China, and on the global history of childhood. Her research focuses on Japanese childhood during the Second World War. She received a B.A. in Archaeology from Princeton University, an M.A. in Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Japanese History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Jason Reid is a history instructor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. He has a Doctoral degree and a Masters degree from York University, and a Bachelors degree from Carleton University. His current research focuses on [End Page 500] adolescence, popular culture, education, and sport during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Barrie Thorne is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an ethnographer who has published research (including the book, Gender Play) focused...
