Contributors
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Gary Dickson, University of Edinburgh
Born and raised in California, Gary Dickson received his A.B. from Stanford and, thanks to a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, his M.A. from Yale. After teaching at Texas Western College and Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, from which he retired as reader in history. Currently, he is an honorary fellow in the University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics, and Archaeology. He gave the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2007 he was presented with a festschift entitled Images of Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson (ed. Debra Strickland). He is the author of many articles on medieval revivalism and two books: Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, Crusades, Saints (2000) and The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory (2008). In 2009 he completed a rewarding but exhausting lecture tour of ten American universities. His present interests include medieval charisma and medieval mythistories.
Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Miriam Forman-Brunell is professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the author of Babysitter: An American History (2009) and Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Culture (1993). Forman-Brunell is also editor of Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (2001), The Story of Rose O’Neill (1997), co-editor (with Leslie Paris) of the Girls’ History & Culture Reader (2010), and co-director (with Kelly Schrum) of the web resource Children & Youth in History http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/. She is currently researching and writing, American Girlhoods: A Multi-Cultural History from Pre-Contact to the Present.
Amy Harris, Brigham Young University
Amy Harris, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history and family history/genealogy at Brigham Young University. Her research centers on family life in eighteenth-century England. She is currently revising a book manuscript on eighteenth-century sibling relations: Share and Share Alike: Anne Travell and Siblings in Georgian England. [End Page 471]
Nazan Maksudyan, Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin In January 2008 Nazan Maksudyan completed her Ph.D. in history at Sabanci University with a dissertation entitled Hearing the Voiceless—Seeing the Invisible: Orphans and Destitute Children as Actors of Social, Economic, and Political History in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. She worked as a lecturer at Boğaziçi and Sabanci Universities in 2008 and 2009. Her publications include: “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Historical Sociology 21 (2008); “‘This Time Women as Well got Involved in Politics!’: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women’s Organizations and Political Agency,” in Ottoman Women’s Movements and Print Cultures, eds. Sima Aprahamian and Victoria Rowe (University of Texas, 2009); Türklüğü Ölçmek: Bilimkurgusal Antropoloji ve Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Irkçı Çehresi, 1925–1939 [Measuring Turkishness: Science-Fictive Anthropology and Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism, 1925–1939], (Metis, 2005). Her research interests include the history of childhood, welfare and charity for children, child abandonment, adoption, child labor, and institutional care for children. She is presently a postdoctoral fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin where her research focuses on the introduction of vocational education and training to orphaned, destitute, and poor children in the urban provincial centers of the Ottoman Empire.
Jacqueline R. Mosselson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jacqueline Mosselson is assistant professor of international development and education at the University of Massachusetts Center for International Education. In 2002 she received her Ph.D. with distinction in comparative education with developmental psychology from Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include: political, social and cultural contexts of international development; cultural studies; international & comparative education; and critical psychology. She is the author of Roots & Routes: Bosnian Adolescent Refugees in New York City (Peter Lang 2006) and some recent publications appear in the Comparative Education Review, the International Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, and the International Journal of Education and...
