Contributors
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Tillman W. Nechtman is assistant professor of British and British imperial history at Skidmore College. He is currently working on a new cultural history of East India Company nabobs entitled Nabobs: The Struggle for Empire and Nation in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain. He can be reached by email at tnechtma@skidmore.edu.
Abigail McGowan is assistant professor of history at the University of Vermont where she teaches early and modern South Asia with a particular emphasis on visual and material culture. She is currently working on a book project exploring the cultural and economic politics of crafts in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century western India. She can be contacted at Abigail.McGowan@uvm.edu.
Rebekah Lee is lecturer in African history at the department of history, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research is on gender and urbanization in southern Africa. Her publications have thus far been based in the South African apartheid and post-apartheid context, including articles on vigilantism and community justice; African involvement in home renovations; and the growth and development of Islam in African townships. She is currently writing a generational history of African women in Cape Town entitled Locating "Home" in Apartheid Cape Town: African Women and the Process of Settlement, 1948–2000. She can be contacted at r.lee@gold.ac.uk.
Katharine French-Fuller is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Duke University. She has a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies from the College of William and Mary and a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where she conducted the research for this article. Her current research examines intersections between daily life, consumption, gender, and technology in mid-twentieth-century Argentina. She can be reached at kef12@duke.edu.
Victoria De Grazia is professor of history at Columbia University and teaches part time at the European University Institute, the European Union's graduate faculty in Florence. She has written widely on the history of women, politics, and consumer cultures. She was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize by the American Historical Association in 1992 for How [End Page 173] Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1920<n>1945. Her most recent book, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (Harvard University Press, 2005), won the 2006 Myrna F. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Bonnie Adrian is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Denver and author of Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry (University of California Press, 2003).
Sarah A. Leavitt is currently associate historian at the Office of NIH History at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She received an MA in Museum Studies and a PhD in American Civilization from Brown University. She is the author of From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and several articles including "'A Private Little Revolution': The Home Pregnancy Test in American Culture" (Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2006). Her next project is a study of women's cyber culture: Living Motherhood Online: A Year in the Life of a 21st Century Community.
A. Holly Shissler is assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her book Between Two Empires: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the New Turkey appeared from I. B. Tauris in 2003.
Elizabeth H. Pleck is professor of history and human development and family studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coauthor of Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding as well as six other books in U.S. women's and family history. She is currently writing a book about changing attitudes toward cohabitation in the United States since 1960.
Cele C. Otnes is professor of marketing and professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary area of research interest is in ritualistic consumption. In addition to coauthoring Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding, she is coeditor of Contemporary Consumption Rituals: A Research Anthology...
