Contributors
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Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. lecturer in law at Harvard Law School, the executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and an adjunct lecturer on public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. From 1997 to 2001, she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.
Wendy Ewald is Senior Research Associate and artist-in-residence at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and visiting-artist-in-residence at Amherst College. At CDS, she has been involved in several special projects for teachers and students in the Durham Public Schools. These include Black Self/White Self and American Alphabets, which explore race and ethnicity in America. Ewald has worked as a photographer, teacher, and documentary writer for more than thirty years. She has had exhibitions in major museums in the United States and in Europe. She has published seven books and received many grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. At CDS, Ewald teaches the course Literacy Through Photography: Teaching Photography and Writing in Elementary and Middle Schools; she also has been co-teaching a Duke/UNC course on various approaches to documentary photography since Spring 2003. Her book, I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children, was published by CDS/Lyndhurst Books and Beacon Press in 2001.
Paula S. Fass, Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of Children of a New World: Society, Culture and Globalization (2006). Her other publications include Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education, [End Page 157] and The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. Professor Fass is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society and co-editor of Childhood in America with Mary Ann Mason. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where she was working on a history of parent-child relations in the United States from 1800 to 2000, Fass is President of the Society for the Study of Children and Youth.
Joseph Hawes is Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He has edited multiple volumes, including Family and Society in American History (with Elizabeth Nybakken), Children in Historical and Comparative Perspective: An International Handbook and Research Guide (with N. Ray Hiner), and Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective (with N. Ray Hiner). In addition to his own books, including Children Between the Wars, 1930–1940, Professor Hawes co-edits a childhood book series with Twayne Publishers. Most recently, he completed The Family in America: An Encyclopedia (with Elizabeth Shores). Professor Hawes is a past president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
N. Ray Hiner is an emeritus faculty member, the former Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He also taught through the Department of Teaching and Leadership in the School of Education. Professor Hiner co-edits a childhood book series with Twayne Publishers, and has co-edited multiple volumes on the history of childhood including Children in Historical and Comparative Perspective: An International Handbook and Research Guide (with Joseph Hawes), and Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective (with Joseph Hawes). He is a past president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Alcinda Honwana is the director of International Development Centre at the Open University. Before joining the OU, she worked for the Social Science Research Council in New York where she directed the Children and Armed Conflict Program and the Africa Programme. She also worked as a Programme Officer at United Nations, in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in New York. Honwana was...
