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  • Contributors

Jill E. Anderson is the History, African-American Studies, and Women’s Studies Librarian at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a PhD in US cultural and women’s/gender history from Rutgers University and an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin. Her current project is on post-World War II girls’ intellectual culture; her blog on this project, True Stories Backwards, is located at girlhistorian.wordpress.com.

Sarah Glassford is currently finishing a two-year term as Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Prince Edward Island. She received her PhD in Canadian history from Toronto’s York University in 2007, having researched the evolution of the Canadian Red Cross Society. The Junior Red Cross caught her interest during the two years of her SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa, and she would like to thank Cynthia Toman and Jayne Elliott for their support in that project.

J. Paul Grayson has studied a number of social/historical phenomena including social movements in early twentieth century Canada; transportation and society in Canada’s early years; the social dimension of past and contemporary Canadian literature and authors; the causes and consequences of plant closures in global perspective; work and health; and the experiences and outcomes of university students. Most recently he has been engaged in an examination of the experiences of Canadian university students in the 1960s.

Matthew Ides is an organizer for the Ohio Education Association and a lecturer at The Ohio State University. His primary focus is the history of American youth cultures, and he is working on projects that utilize oral interviews to develop this history.

Rachel Remmel is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Her research focuses on school architecture and museum history, both institutions intended to transmit and shape values. Her book project is The Origins of the American School Building: Boston [End Page 344] Public School Architecture, 1789–1860. She would like to thank Katherine Taylor, Abby Van Slyck, Tim Williams, Marla Miller, Nancy Zey, and Ronald and Mary Zboray; Edward Copenhagen and the generous librarians and archivists of Boston; and funding from the Spencer, Luce (ACLS), and Graham foundations, as well as the universities of Chicago and Rochester. [End Page 345]

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