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Contributors
Christiane Harzig has published extensively on gender and migration. She is editor of Peasant Maids-City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America, Cornell 1997. Presently she is teaching at the University of Erfurt and working as a freelancer in Bremen.
Judith F. Helzner, with master's degrees in Demography and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, was director of Sexual and Reproductive Health of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, where she worked for twelve years. Her previous position at IPPF/WHR was as director of Program Coordination (1987–97). She has also worked at the International Women's Health Coalition, the Pathfinder Fund, and other nonprofits, as well as serving as an independent consultant to a variety of agencies. Her interests have included women's empowerment, male involvement, and gender-based violence; HIV/STD prevention; and quality of care. She is now associate director of Population and Reproductive Health for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega is a bilingual, bicultural feminist scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. At present she is researcher-professor at El Colegio de Meé;xico and has combined her career as academic researcher with working as program officer and advisor in the development of programs with international agencies on reproductive health, family planning, and gender issues. She has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Overseas Research Council (UK), CONACYT (Mexico), the Rockefeller, the American Association of University Women, Ford and MacArthur Foundations (USA), and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany). She is editor of Razones y pasiones en torno al aborto (EDAMEX and Population Council) and Los Derechos reproductivos de las mujeres. Un debate sobre justicia social en Meéxico (Universidad Metropolitana Xochimilco and El Colegio de Meéxico). She is also coauthor of Negotiating Reproductive Rights, published in London by Zed Books.
Nicole Richardt, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University, is currently a doctoral fellow at Sciences Po in Paris. Her dissertation (in progress) is entitled “New Governance, Gender, and the building of a New Society in Europe: Effects on Germany and the U.K.”
Kimberly Morgan is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. Her dissertation, “Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle? The Politics of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States” won the Lipset award for the Best Comparative Dissertation (Society for Comparative Research), and the Best Dissertation Prize in Women and Politics (American Political Science Association). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, and the Journal of Policy History. Until fall 2003, she will be a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University.
Marian Van Der Klein studied history at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is writing a Ph.D. thesis on women, feminism, and social insurance in the Netherlands from 1890 to 1940 at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. In 2002 she organized an international workshop on “Maternalism Reconsidered: Mothers and Method in Twentieth Century History” (volume forthcoming). Her previous work includes “Employers' Schemes in Twente, the Netherlands: Industrial Accidents, Caring Power, and Local Breadwinning Practices around 1900,” in Business and Society. Entrepreneurs, Politics and Networks in a Historical Perspective (Rotterdam: Centre of Business History), 425–443.
