Contributors
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Tani E. Barlow teaches in the departments of history and women's studies at the University of Washington. She is author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Duke University, 2004) and co-editor of "Against Preemptive War," a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique (13, no. 1, 2005) where she is founding Senior Editor. Her essay "The Pornographic City" appears in Jing Wang, ed., Locating China: Space, Place and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2005).
Charlene Boyer Lewis teaches history at Kalamazoo College and is also the director of American Studies. Her first book, Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860, was published by the University Press of Virginia in 2001. Her next work will examine Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and the culture of the Early Republic. She can be contacted at clewis@kzoo.edu.
Caroline Waldron Merithew is assistant professor of history at the University of Dayton. She is the author of "Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois' Coal Towns" in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives, edited by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). Currently, Merithew is completing a book manuscript "'A World to Gain': The Creation of Hybrid Communities in the Midwest U.S., 1880s-1930s."
Deirdre M. Moloney is on the faculty at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her first book, American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2002. She is currently at work on her book manuscript "National Insecurities: U.S. Immigration Deportation Policy." She can be contacted at dmoloney@gmu.edu.
Dora Barrancos received a PhD from UNICAMP-Brasil and is professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She is researcher at CONICET (National Council of Sciences and Technology) and the head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She has published many papers about the culture of working-class and women's history. She is author of Anarquismo, educación y costumbres en la Argentina de Principios de siglo (Contrapunto, [End Page 184] 1991), La escena iluminada: Ciencias para trabajadores (1890-1930) (Plus Ultra, 1995), and Inclusión/Exclusión: Historia con mujeres (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002).
Karen M. Booth is associate professor of women's studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her most recent book is Local Women, Global Science: Fighting AIDS in Kenya (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). She has published in Feminist Studies, Gender & Society, and Social Science and Medicine. She is currently researching debates over the ethics of HIV drug trials conducted on pregnant Asian, African, and Latin American women.
Susan Englander is assistant editor at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. She received her PhD at UCLA in 1999 and specializes in the history of U.S. labor and social movements. She is the lead editor on the forthcoming Volume VI of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963.
Karen Eliot is a former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Company and holds a PhD in British literature. She is currently associate professor at the Ohio State University department of dance, where she teaches ballet and modern dance techniques, dance history, and research methods. Her articles appear in Eighteenth-Century Women, Dance Journal, and The Journal of Dance Education. Her forthcoming book is about the experiences of five women dancers whose careers span the eighteenth century to the present.
Julia Clancy-Smith is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She published Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (1994). She co-edited Domesticating the Empire: Gender, Race, & Family Life in the Dutch and French Empires (1998) as well as a special issue of French Historical Studies, "Writing French Colonial Histories" (2004), and edited North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean World from the Almoravids to the Algerian War (2001). She is currently completing a book entitled "Migrations: Trans-Mediterranean Settlement in Nineteenth-Century North...
