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Susan Rimby is professor of history and director of the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Minor at Shippensburg University. She has also served as a Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker and been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Proteus published her most recent article on Progressive era conservation, "Missionaries to the Mountaineers: Pennsylvania State Foresters and Rangers during the Progressive Period," in 2002. Her email is srrimb@ship.edu.

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is assistant professor of history at San José State University. She is completing a book manuscript on women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island in Revolutionary America.

Julie Willett is associate professor at Texas Tech University where she teaches courses in U.S. women's history. Her book Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop examines women's work and culture in the hairdressing industry. She is currently working on her second book project, tentatively entitled "'Men Need Not Apply': A History of Child Care Work in the United States."

Martha F. Lee is associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor (Canada). She is the author of The Nation of Islam and Earth First! Environmental Apocalypse, and the editor of Millennial Visions: Essays on Twentieth Century Millenarianism. She is currently completing a manuscript on Nesta Webster and the prevalence of conspiracy theory in modern political life.

Beth Linker is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in the History of Science and Medicine. She is completing her dissertation on the visual representation and physical rehabilitation of disabled soldiers in World War I America. She has recently published an article in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, "The Business of Ethics: Gender, Medicine, and the Professional Codification of the American Physiotherapy Association, 1918–1935," which explores the impact of gender on the writing of professional codes of ethics during the early twentieth century. She can be contacted at beth.linker@yale.edu.

Robert Topmiller received his BA and MA in history from Central Washington University and his PhD in history from the University of Kentucky. He is assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University and the author of The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964–66. He can be contacted at rtopmiller@hotmail.com.

Anna Dronzek is assistant professor of medieval history at Rhodes College. She is currently working on a book examining gender and middle-class identity in late medieval England.

Wendy Kline is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. Her first book, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001), examines how and why eugenics became an appealing solution to the problems of moral disorder, gender, and sexuality during the first half of the twentieth century. She is currently working on a history of the women's health movement in the late-twentieth-century United States.

Susan K. Cahn is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her current research is on gender, sexuality, and adolescence in the modern U.S. South. She can be contacted by email at cahn@buffalo.edu.

Angela Woollacott is Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her books include On Her Their Lives De-pend: Munitions Workers in the Great War and To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. Her latest book, Gender and Empire (forthcoming, Palgrave), assesses the impact of feminist scholarship on historical understanding of the British Empire. [End Page 193]

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