Contributors
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Jennifer Brier is an associate professor in the gender and women’s studies and history departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She specializes in U.S. LGBT history as well as the history of sexuality and gender. Brier is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Response to the AIDS Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Between 2008 and 2011, Brier curated Out in Chicago, the Chicago History Museum’s exhibition on LGBT history that ran from May 2011 to March 2012. Currently she is at work on a major public history project called History Moves, a community curated mobile gallery that will provide a space for Chicago-based community organizers and activists to share their histories with a wide audience.
Angelina Chin is assistant professor of history at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on colonialism, popular culture, and feminism in modern East Asia. She is the author of Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). She is currently working on a project about refugees and exiled intellectuals who escaped from the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the 1970s.
Elizabeth Elbourne is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. She, with Brian Cowan, is the co-editor of the Journal of British Studies. Her publications include Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in Britain and the Eastern Cape, 1799–1852 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002). Her research interests include gender and colonialism, the history of religion, and the history of British imperialism.
Karla Huebner is an assistant professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She received her PhD in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh, and her MA from American University. Her present areas of research include the history of gender and sexuality, surrealism, and Czech modernism 1890–1950. Recent publications include “Girl, Trampka, or Žába? The Czechoslovak New Woman,” in The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (University of Michigan Press, 2011); “Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen’s Queer Desire and its Roots in Prague Surrealism,” in Papers [End Page 225] of Surrealism issue 8 (Spring 2010); and “The Whole World Revolves around It: Sex Education and Sex Reform in First Republic Czech Print Media,” in Aspasia 4 (Spring 2010). Scholarly book projects underway include Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic and a study of gender and sexuality in interwar Czechoslovak visual culture.
Franca Iacovetta is professor of history at the University of Toronto and co-editor of Studies in Gender and History at University of Toronto Press. A historian of women and the immigrant working classes in Canada as well as transnational radical exiles from fascist Italy, her most recent monograph, Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada (Between the Lines, 2006) won the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald prize for the best book in Canadian history. Co-editor of Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History (University of Toronto Press, 2012), she is completing a book manuscript currently entitled Immigrant Gifts, Spectacles of Citizenship, and Community-based Pluralism before Trudeau: The International Institute of Toronto in North American Context, 1940s–1970s. She is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and host of the 2014 Berkshire Conference on Women’s History.
Amy G. Remensnyder is associate professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on the cultural and religious history of medieval Europe. She is the author of La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old World and the New (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2013) and Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation legends in Medieval Southern France (Cornell University Press, 1985), as well as the co-editor of Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice (Routledge, 2011). The recipient of the Van Courtland Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America (1992), Remensnyder has held research fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the American...
