Contributors
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Mineke Bosch is Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. She published books and articles on the history of gender and science, (auto)biography and life writing, the history of (international) women’s movements, commemorative practices and historical culture. Among her books are: Politics and Friendship. Letters from the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1902–1943 (Columbus, OH, 1990); Het geslacht van de wetenschap (The gender of science) (Amsterdam, 1994), which entails a history of women in higher education and the sciences in the Netherlands between 1878 and 1948; and the biography of the prominent Dutch feminist Aletta H. Jacobs (Amsterdam, 2005). She is a member of the editorial board of L’Homme. Europäisches Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft. Currently she is editing and annotating the fascinating unpublished diary of a “new woman” and popular scientist, Frederike van Uildriks (1854–1919).
Matthew Pratt Guterl is an associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Director of American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 (Harvard University Press, 2001) and American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard University Press, 2008), and the co-editor, with James T. Campbell and Robert G. Lee, of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). He is writing a book about Josephine Baker’s family, titled Mother of the World: Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe.
Joan Judge is most recently the author of The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), and the coeditor of a forthcoming volume on the cultural politics of female biography in China from the ancient through the contemporary period, New Approaches to Chinese Women’s Lives: Beyond Exemplar Tales (Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press). An associate professor in the Department of History and the Division of Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada, she is currently involved in a multiyear, international collaborative project entitled “Gender and Cultural Production: A New Approach to Chinese Women’s Journals in the Early 20th Century” (funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Humboldt Foundation). [End Page 222]
Caroline Waldron Merithew is an associate professor of history at the University of Dayton. She holds a research associateship at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke for Spring 2010. Merithew’s Journal of Women’s History 2006 article, “‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism,” was awarded the Anita S. Goodstein Junior Scholar Prize in Women’s History from the University of the South. She is also author of “Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois,” in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives, edited by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto, 2002) and “Lynch Law Must Go!” in the Journal of American Ethnic History (2000). The article which appears in this issue is part of a larger book—a social biography of Catherine Bianco DeRorre and her “American Century.”
Connie Shemo is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. She is co-editing, with Kathryn Kish-Sklar and Barbara Reeves-Ellington, a volume on American Protestant women missionaries in a variety of geographical contexts entitled Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960 (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2010). In this volume she is publishing an essay that focuses on Kang Cheng’s adopted mother, Gertrude Howe, entitled “‘So Thoroughly American’: Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and Cultural Imperialism in the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, 1872–1931.” She is currently also at work on a manuscript on the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu. She can be contacted at shemoca@plattsburgh.edu.
Nwando Achebe is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University, and received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. She served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at The Hansberry African Studies Institute and History Department...
