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  • Contributors

Saheed Aderinto is assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. His research interests include gender and sexuality, children and childhood, and nationalism and historiography. He is the coauthor of Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History (University of Rochester Press, 2010). His works have also appeared in leading area and Africanist journals, including the Canadian Journal of African Studies, History in Africa, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. He is currently completing a book-length study of the history of illicit sexuality in colonial Lagos, Nigeria.

Elizabeth Kalbfleisch holds a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. She has taught art history and women and gender studies at several Canadian universities and published essays on aspects of contemporary Native American and First Nations art by women. Her research addresses interculturalism in Native women’s art and craft from the Reservation Era to the present. She is currently a research fellow (2011–12) at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where she is studying settler and aboriginal traditions of knitting in Canada.

Donna King is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she teaches courses in media and popular culture. Her research areas include feminist critiques of consumer culture, body and embodiment, and the evolving self. She is author of Doing Their Share to Save the Planet: Children and Environmental Crisis (Rutgers, 1995) and coeditor of Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).

Mareike König is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris, where she also directs the library. Her research interests include migration in the [End Page 116] nineteenth century and European integration history in the twentieth century, as well as digital humanities. She has coedited a collection of essays on migration, Enlarging European Memory: Migration Movements in Historical Perspectives (Thorbecke, 2006), and published several articles on German migrants in Paris in the nineteenth century. Currently, she is writing a book on French-German history from 1870 to 1918 together with Elise Julien.

Susan Pelle is visiting assistant professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Miami University of Ohio. Her research interests include contemporary literature and queer studies. She has published articles on Margaret Cho’s stand-up performances and Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art. She is currently composing a piece on Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More Than You. [End Page 117]

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