Contributors
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Gayle K. Brunelle received her PhD in 1988 from Emory University. She is professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. Author of a monograph and a number of articles and book chapters, she is currently working on a book-length study of Iberian merchants in early modern France entitled Negotiating Commerce, Negotiating Identity: Iberians in Early Modern France, as well as a study of early modern women in France entitled Enterprising Women, Wealth, and the Law in Early Modern France. She can be contacted at gbrunelle@fullerton.edu.
Nandita Prasad Sahai is an associate professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is the author of Politics of Patronage and Protest: State, Society and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan (Oxford University Press, 2006), and of articles published in the Medieval History Journal, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and Modern Asian Studies. She is currently writing Retrieving Her-Story: Craftswomen and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Rajasthan, a book in which she seeks to present a gendered history of craft communities, exploring power and the dynamics of its unfolding within the domestic domain of artisans. She can be contacted at nandita_p_sahai@yahoo.com.
Kathleen R. Smythe is associate professor of history at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880–1960 and several articles on the colonial and religious history of Ufipa, Tanzania. She is currently working on a history of imported clothing in western Tanzania as part of a book-length project on aid and development connections between Tanzanians and North Americans. She can be contacted at smythe@xavier.edu.
Dorothea Browder is completing a doctorate in the Program in Gender and Women's History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and will be assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University beginning in August 2007. Her dissertation explores how working women, from the 1910s through the 1940s, reshaped the YWCA's Christian purpose and forged a racially and religiously diverse working-class movement. [End Page 210]
Kimberly Brodkin received her PhD in U.S. and women's history from Rutgers University in 2001. She is revising her dissertation for publication as "For the Good of the Party: Women in the Democratic Party from the New Deal to the New Right." She currently teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she directs the Gender Studies Symposium.
Jennifer L. Morgan is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America. She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism, and the rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, tentatively titled Accounting for the Women in Slavery. She is associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University and lives in New York City.
Daina Ramey Berry is associate professor of history at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in U.S. history from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include nineteenth-century U.S. history, comparative slavery, and Southern history, with a particular emphasis on the role of gender, labor, family, material culture, and the economy among the enslaved. Her first book, entitled "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press (Spring 2007).
Stephanie M. H. Camp is associate professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2003), which won the Lillian Smith Book Prize for New Voices in Non-Fiction in 2004, and the co-editor (with Edward E. Baptist) of New Studies in the History of American Slavery (The University of Georgia Press, 2006). She is currently working on a study of women in slavery in the British Atlantic world.
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