Contributors
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Hester Barron is senior lecturer in history at the University of Sussex. She is the author of The 1926 Miners’ Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield (2010) and the co-editor, with Claudia Siebrecht, of Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, c. 1870–1950: Raising the Nation (forthcoming 2016). She is currently working on her next monograph, which will explore the history of the elementary school classroom in London between the wars.
Julia Bates is a researcher and teacher at Boston College. She completed her MA in sociology in 2013 at Boston College. This article is a synthesis of her thesis “The Racialization of Childhood: A Comparative History of Child Removal in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Her most recent work, “The Colonial Roots of ‘Color Blind Racism,’” examines the historical relationship between educational philanthropy, color-blind rhetoric, and the colonization of Africa.
Eileen Ford is associate professor of history at California State University at Los Angeles specializing in modern Mexico and Latin America. She is the author of numerous book reviews and encyclopedia entries and is an active participant in conferences sponsored by the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Marilisa Jiménez García is a research associate at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY. Her research focuses on the intersections of American Studies, race, empire, and childhood and children’s literature studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the history of Latino/a children’s and young adult literature and an essay on the Latino/a “YA” tradition.
Leslie Ginsparg Klein is the academic dean of Women’s Institute of Torah Seminary—Maalot Baltimore. She was previously an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Touro College, and has also taught history and education at Hebrew Theological College and Gratz College. She is currently working on a book on the history of the Bais Yaakov schools and Orthodox Jewish girls’ education in twentieth- and twenty-first century America. [End Page 189]
Caroline Mezger is originally from Zurich, Switzerland. She completed a B.A. in history at Yale University and an M.A. in the comparative history of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe at Central European University, Budapest. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the European University Institute in Florence, with a dissertation tentatively titled “Contested Youths in Disputed Borderlands: The National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic German Youths in the Batschka and the Western Banat, 1930s–1944.”
Susan A. Miller is an associate professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. She is the author of Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America (Rutgers University Press, 2007). Her article is part of her current book project, Young Defenders: Children and the Development of the American Civil Religion, 1876–1939.
Sarah Walters is Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her background is in African history and demography, and her PhD is a demographic history of Tanzania (Cambridge University, 2008). She has lived and worked in East and Central Africa and she is currently working on the Counting Souls Project, digitizing the oldest Catholic parish registers in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and creating a database for historical demographic research. [End Page 190]
