Contributors
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Leslie Madsen-Brooks earned her PhD in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis in 2006. As a consultant with the campus's Teaching Resources Center, she now helps UC Davis faculty become more thoughtful about teaching. She also teaches graduate museum studies at John F. Kennedy University and blogs at MuseumBlogging.com.
Elisabeth McMahon is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Tulane University. She received her PhD in African History from Indiana University. Her current research examines the gendering of identity and community in the post-emancipation era of Pemba Island. She has published work in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Women's History Review, and Quaker History.
Corrie Decker is an assistant professor in the African and African American Studies Department at Lehman College, City University of New York. She received her PhD in African history from the University of California, Berkeley. Her forthcoming article, "Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools," will appear in Girlhood: A Global Anthology, edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen Vasconcellos (Rutgers University Press, 2010). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Institute of International Education and the Spencer Foundation. She is currently researching the history of girls' initiation, sex education, and female adolescent culture on the Swahili coast.
Elaine Carey received a PhD in Latin American history from the University of New Mexico; she is currently an associate professor at St. John's University in Queens, New York. She published Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror, 1968 Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2005). In 2007, she held a second Fulbright-García Robles fellowship in Mexico to conduct research on women and illicit trade in North America. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript on women and drug trafficking in North America from 1900 to 1970.
Kate Dossett is a lecturer in American History at the University of Leeds. Her first book, Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration, 1896-1935 (University Press of Florida, 2008), explored [End Page 185] African American women's strategic use of both black nationalism and integrationism in the struggle for black autonomy in the early decades of the twentieth century. Her research focuses on black political and cultural movements in twentieth-century America from a gendered perspective. Her current research project looks at how black masculinities were reconstituted in the evolving relationship between black nationalism and communism in the 1930s and 1940s.
Jessamyn Neuhaus is an assistant professor of history and popular culture at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Her scholarly publications include articles in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of the History of Sexuality; a forthcoming article, "Marge Simpson, Blue-Haired Housewife: Defining Domesticity on The Simpsons," in the Journal of Popular Culture; and a monograph entitled Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Her current research project explores the depiction of housework and housewives in American advertising.
Adele Perry teaches history at the University of Manitoba, where she is Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History and works on the history of gender, colonialism, and migration in the nineteenth century.
Laura Gowing is a reader in early modern history at King's College London and author of Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2003).
Joan E. Cashin received her doctorate from Harvard University and is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She is the author of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier (Oxford University Press, 1991) and First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2006), and the editor of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South (Johns Hopkins University Press,1996) and The War was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Durba Ghosh is an associate professor in the history department at Cornell University. She is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and, with Dane Kennedy...
