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  • Contributors

Ginger Frost

Ginger Frost is Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She is the author of Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England (Manchester, 2008) and Victorian Childhoods (Praeger, 2009). She is currently writing a history of illegitimacy in England from 1860 to 1930.

Martin Kalb

Martin Kalb is a full-time lecturer for European and World history at Northern Arizona University. He got his M.A. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) in 2007, and his Ph.D. in 2011 from Northern Arizona University. This article is an excerpt from his dissertation titled “A Tool of Social Control: Constructions of Youth in Munich, 1942–1969.” He is currently in the process of revising his dissertation for publication.

Ishita Pande

Ishita Pande is an Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University in Canada and the author of Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (Routledge, 2010). Articles based on her research into the politics of childhood in post/colonial India have appeared in the journals Gender and History and South Asian History and Culture.

Johanna Rickman

Johanna Rickman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Georgia. She focuses on the history of love, sex, and marriage in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her previous work includes a book entitled Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility (Ashgate, 2008). [End Page 405]

Giorgio Riello

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He is the author of A Foot in the Past (Oxford, 2006) and has edited several books on the history of textiles, dress, fashion, and design in early modern Europe and Asia including Shoes (with P. McNeil) (2006; pb 2011) The Spinning World (Oxford, 2009; pb 2012); and How India Clothed the World (Brill, 2009; pb 2012). His most recent book entitled Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Cambridge) was published in March 2013.

Joy Schulz

Joy Schulz received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011. She teaches U.S. International Relations to graduate students at Nebraska Wesleyan University and is on the history faculty at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. Her current research interests include U.S. foreign policy in the Pacific, 19th-century Hawaiian history, and 19th and 20th century transnational childhoods. She is currently participating in the “Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Initiative: American History, Atlantic and Pacific Project,” a three-year research grant sponsored by the American Historical Association.

Julie Solow Stein

Julie Solow Stein is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is currently finishing a dissertation titled “Youthful Transgressions: Teenagers, Sexuality and the Contested Path to Adulthood in Postwar America.” She received a Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Children and Youth since 2009.

Nicholas L. Syrett

Nicholas L. Syrett is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado and the author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (North Carolina, 2009). He has published articles on queer history in American Studies, Genders, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality and has others forthcoming in GLQ and the Pacific Historical Review. He is writing a book about the history of child marriage in the United States. [End Page 406]

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