Contributors
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Barbara Beatty is Professor of Education at Wellesley College. The author of Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present (Yale, 1995) and co-editor, with Emily Cahan and Julia Grant, of When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in 20th Century America (Teachers College Press, 2006), she has written extensively about the history of preschool education, advocacy, and policy, and about the role of developmental psychology in education. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Fate of Child-Centered Education: the Rise and Decline of Jean Piaget’s Psychology and Developmentally Appropriate Practice in America and is doing research on the discourse of the “disadvantaged child.” She has consulted with foundations and research institutes on policies for universalizing preschool education.
Katherine Carlson is a Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow in the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of North Carolina— Chapel Hill. Her scholarly interests include the British and American nineteenth century, the novel, and writing for or by children. Another article, “‘We Can Feal Pangs as Well as You:’ Marjory Fleming and the Challenge of the Child-Author,” is forthcoming in Women’s Writing.
Sarah Anne Carter is a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, where she is completing a dissertation entitled “Object Lessons in American Culture.” A graduate of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, she has articles forthcoming in the History of Photography and the Museum History Journal.
Julia Grant is professor of history and public affairs at James Madison College, Michigan State University. She has published Raising Baby by the Book: The [End Page 141] Education of American Mothers (1998) and co-edited with Barbara Beatty and Emily Cahan When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in Twentieth-Century America (2006). She has published essays on the history of gender, childhood, sexuality, and masculinity and is currently writing a book on the origins of the “boy problem” in urban America for Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sharon Halevi, a historian, is the director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Haifa, Israel. Among her research interests is the history of identities, in particular the public and political identities and roles of wives. Her current book project Revolutionary Selves examines the narrative articulations of personal identity in the early republic.
Philippa Maddern is Winthrop Professor in History at the University of Western Australia. Her work focuses on 15th century English history and gender history. She is the author of Violence & Social Order: East Anglia 1422–1442, (1992) and co-editor of Venus & Mars: Engendering Love & War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe with A. Lynch, (1995) and Women as Australian Citizens: underlying histories with Patricia Crawford, (2001).
Margaret Peacock is an Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University of Alabama. Her work and publications center on semiotics, visual culture, and transnational images of the child in the Cold War. Currently, she is working on a book entitled, Contested Innocence: Soviet and American Images of the Child in the Cold War. [End Page 142]
