Contributors
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Lisa Gail Collins is a professor in art history, Africana studies, and American studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003) and coeditor, with Margo Natalie Crawford, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). For her research and writing, she has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, College Art Association, and The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Magda Fahrni is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is the author of Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (University of Toronto Press, 2005), a monograph awarded the Clio-Québec Prize by the Canadian Historical Association in 2006; the co-author of the 3rd edition of Canadian Women: A History (Nelson, 2011); and the co-editor of Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20 (University of British Columbia Press, 2012) and of Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75 (University of British Columbia Press, 2008).
Karen George has been involved in the field of child welfare history since 1999 when she became an interviewer for the National Library of Australia’s Bringing Them Home Oral History Project. Working with SA Link-Up, an organization which assists members of Stolen Generations, she researched and wrote a guide to records of children’s homes in South Australia [SA], Finding Your Own Way, published in 2005. From 2004-2008 she worked as Research Historian for the SA Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry. Since 2011, she has been a State-based historian for SA and the Northern Territory for the Find & Connect web resource project for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants and those interested in the history of child welfare in Australia. She was also involved in the National Library of Australia’s Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral History Project. [End Page 531]
Kathleen W. Jones is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999) and is currently writing a history of adolescent suicide.
Heidi Morrison is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. She is the author of Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt (Palgrave, 2014) and The Global History of Childhood Reader (Routledge, 2012). Her current book project focuses on Palestinian children and modern-day warfare.
Lydia Murdoch is Associate Professor of History and Director of Victorian Studies at Vassar College. She is author of Daily Life of Victorian Women (Greenwood, 2014) and Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Rutgers University Press, 2006). Her current book project, Called by Death: Child Mortality and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century England, examines public forms of grief and discourses surrounding the death of children.
Tamara Myers is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in gender, law, and history, she is the author of Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, an examination of early juvenile justice programs in Canada. She is co-editor of several volumes on women’s and children’s history and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Youth Squad: A Cultural History of Policing Children in Mid-20th Century North America.
David M. Pomfret is Associate Professor of modern European history at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the nineteenth and twentieth century history of Europe and its empires, and in urban history, with a particular focus upon the comparative and transnational history of childhood and youth. He is the author of Young People and the European City (Ashgate, 2004), and Youth and Empire: Trans-colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia (under review) and editor of Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century World (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), Diasporic...
