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JUNKO AKAMATSU is an assistant professor on the faculty of foreign studies at Bunkyo Gakuin University, Japan. She holds a PhD in history from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on marriage in eighteenth-century England from social, cultural, and legal perspectives. She is currently working on a book manuscript on marriage breakdown and separation in London’s church courts from 1660 to 1800.

CATHERINE BISHOP is a historian at Australian Catholic University and the University of Sydney. She is the author of a number of articles as well as Minding Her Own Business: Businesswomen in Colonial Sydney (NewSouth Publishing, 2015). Her other research interests include twentieth-century international businesswomen’s organizations, post-World War II world youth forums, and women missionaries.

DENISE Z. DAVIDSON is professor of history at Georgia State University. She is the author of France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007) and co-author, with Anne Verjus, of Le Roman conjugal: Chroniques de la vie familiale à l’époque de la Révolution et de l’Empire (Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon Press, 2011). Her articles have appeared in French History, French Historical Studies, Annales Historiques de la Révolution française, The Journal of Family History, and The William and Mary Quarterly. She is currently writing a book that makes use of private correspondence to discuss bourgeois families and their survival strategies during and after the French Revolution.

SHADI GHAZIMORADI is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her research focuses on women’s labor, feminism and nationalism, and gender and sexuality in the Middle East. Her doctoral dissertation examines the intersections of maternalist ideologies and women’s labor in the emergence of women’s movements in the Middle East and Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

JENNA HEALEY is a PhD candidate in the program in the history of science and medicine at Yale University. Her doctoral research examines the history of the “biological clock” in late twentieth-century America and the use of medical technologies to control and extend the reproductive lifespan. [End Page 182]

REN PEPITONE is a lecturer in modern British history at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include the history of London and its environs, as well as gender and masculinities in modern Britain and its empire. She is currently working on a monograph exploring the culture of the British legal profession in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

GEORGE ROBB is professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. His most recent book is British Culture and the First World War, 2nd edition, Palgrave, 2015. He is completing a manuscript on Victorian women investors and financiers.

CLAIRE SCHEN is an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) specializing in the history of London and the Reformation. Her current research is focused on problems of religious toleration and conflict studied through cases of captivity, piracy, and travel by British men and women in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, into North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. Her current project is reflected in “Breaching ‘Community’ in Britain: Captives, Renegades, and the Redeemed” in Karen Spierling and Michael Halvorson, eds., Defining Community in Early Modern Europe, St. Andrews Studies in reformation History (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, Nov. 2008): 229–246 and she has recently contributed “London” to the Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, in ed. Margaret King (New York: Oxford University Press, May 15, 2015). She teaches courses on early modern Britain and Europe and world history. Most recently, she has served on the steering committee that reformed the general education program at the University of Buffalo.

ADAM-MAX TUCHINSKY is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Maine. Since 2010, he has served as the Associate Dean in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. In 2009, he published Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor with Cornell University Press. He has published articles in the Journal of American History and American Nineteenth-Century History.

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