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Judith P. Aikin is professor of German at the University of Iowa. She has published four books and nearly three dozen articles and chapters on seventeenth-century German drama, opera libretti, and devotional song texts. She is currently working on several articles and a book dealing with Countess Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt—poet, ruler, entrepreneur, and activist on behalf of women—and on her social, economic, and cultural context in early modern Thuringia. <judith-aikin@uiowa.edu>

Jelena Batinić is a graduate student in the Department of History at Stanford University. She specializes in East European women's history and is currently working on Partisan women in Yugoslavia during World War II.

Kathleen M. Blee is professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent books are Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (University of California Press, 2002) and Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice (co-edited with France Wind- dance Twine, NYU Press, 2001).

Brian D. Bunk earned a Ph.D. in history from University of Wisconsin- Madison and currently teaches at Central Connecticut State University. He has written about the interaction of political discourse and memory in modern Spain and is working on a book about the revolution of October 1934.

Carolyn J. Eichner is associate professor in the department of women's studies at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Surmounting the Barricades: Feminist Socialisms and the 1871 Paris Commune (forthcoming, Indiana University Press). She is currently researching an article on the politics of radical naming practices, as well as a larger projection French feminist socialisms and questions of empire.

Joan B. Landes is professor of women's studies and history at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1988), Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 2001), and editor of Feminsim, the Public [End Page 229] and the Private (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her co-edited volume, Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe is forthcoming in 2004 (Cornell University Press).

James D. Livingston holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University. Since retiring from General Electric Company, he has taught in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. In addition to an engineering text and other technical writing, he is author of a book on science history, Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets (Harvard University Press, 1996); a town history, Glenville: Past and Present (Glenville, NY, 1970); and several published articles on New York State history.

Jo Ann McNamara is professor emerita of medieval history at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has written extensively on the history of women in the middle ages and recently published Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia.

Sherry H. Penney is author of Patrician in Politics: Daniel Dewey Barnard of New York (Kennikat Press, 1974) and articles and book reviews on American history. She served as Associate Provost at Yale, as Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs, Policy, and Planning for the 64-campus SUNY system, and as Acting President of SUNY Plattsburgh. From 1988 to 2000, she was Chancellor of University of Massachusetts, Boston, and during 1995, she served as Interim President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. She currently holds the Sherry H. Penney Professorship of Leadership in the College of Management at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Mary Procida was associate professor of history at Temple University. She was the author of Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883-1947. In early 2003, Procida lost her battle with cancer.

Mary P. Ryan is John Martin Vincent Professor of History at John Hopkins University, where she teaches women's history and urban history. Her most recent book is Civil Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the Nineteenth-Century City (1997). She is currently completing a synthetic work entitled "Mysteries of Male and Female: An American History."

Sharra L. Vostral is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She currently...

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