Contributors
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Marilyn Barber is an adjunct research professor in the department of history, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her main area of research is immigration to Canada, with a primary focus on female immigration. She has published a Canadian Historical Association booklet and numerous articles on the history of immigrant domestic servants in Canada. She has also researched and published regarding the migration to western Canada during the interwar period of British Anglican teachers and female church workers. With British colleague Murray Watson, she is now writing an oral history of English migration to Canada after 1945 in which gender is a central theme.
Tovah Bender received a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota in 2009 and a Masters in history from Fordham University in 2004. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of history at Hanover College in Indiana. She conducts research on non-elite marriage patterns and social networks in fifteenth-century Tuscany and comparatively. She is currently working on a manuscript focused on the marriage patterns of Florentine artisans—members of the minor guilds and their families—in relation to those Florentines at either end of the social spectrum and in comparison with those elsewhere in Europe, as the modern European marriage pattern was emerging. Her next project examines the ways that short-distance migration shaped identity and community for migrants in late medieval northern Italy, particularly for those below the level of the elite.
Joyce de Vries is an associate professor of art history and the Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Auburn University. She recently published Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances: Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Ashgate, 2010). In her current research, she examines consumption practices and the material culture of the domestic interior in sixteenth-century Bologna.
Melissa Feinberg is associate professor of history and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). Her current research examines the ways in which fear shaped political culture in Eastern Europe [End Page 220] during the first decade of the Cold War. She is an editor of Aspasia, a year-book of women’s and gender history in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
Dáša Frančíková received her PhD in history and women’s studies from the University of Michigan. She is a lecturer in the department of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently working on her new project entitled “Going Global, Getting Personal: Transnational Lesbian Organizing and Relationships in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-First Centuries.” The project explores how, through forging of a transnational lesbian culture, women who self-identified as lesbians participated in transnational lesbian activism—working toward political, legal, and social change—and strove to form personal connections across national, cultural, social, ethnic, and racial borders.
Diana Georgescu is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she specializes in the modern history of Europe and Eastern Europe. Her academic interests center on gender and nationalism, the cultural and social history of communism, social memory, and post-communist historiography. She is the author of several articles on post-communist nostalgia, national identity and public intellectuality in interwar Europe, and women intellectuals in twentieth century Romania. Diana Georgescu is currently working on her PhD dissertation titled, “Ceauşescu’s Children: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2010).”
Charu Gupta is an associate professor of history at Delhi University. She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She has been a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the Social Science Research Council, New York, the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Thailand, the Wellcome Institute, London, and the University of Oxford. She has also been a visiting Faculty at Yale University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Washington. Her publications include the books Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (Permanent Black, 2001 and Palgrave, 2002) and Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk...
