Contributors
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Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor and chair of the Department of Feminist Studies and professor of history and black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice. Her most recent books are Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care, coedited with Rhacel Parreñas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), and, with Jennifer Klein, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She compiles the "Feminist Currents" column for Frontiers.
Kristin Celello is an assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty is an assistant professor of English and women's studies at Southern Illinois University—Carbondale, where she is affiliated with the Irish and Irish Immigration Studies Program. She has published articles on authors Anthony Trollope and Nuala O'Faolain and is currently working on a book titled Joyce's Sisters: Mary Robinson, the Irish Child, and Irish Women Writers of the 1990s.
Breanne Fahs is an assistant professor of women's studies at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan (2006) and currently holds a faculty appointment at Arizona State University, while also working as a private practice clinical psychologist in Avondale, Arizona. She has published articles on the politicizing effects of divorce, radical feminist histories, and women's sexuality. [End Page 143] She has a forthcoming book with SUNY Press that examines the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement as it relates to aspects of women's sexuality like faking orgasms, performing bisexuality, and the development of female Viagra.
Estelle B. Freedman is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University. Her books include Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (2nd ed., with John D'Emilio; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (New York: Ballantine, 2002); and Feminism, Sexuality and Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). She is currently writing a political history of rape in the United States.
Matt Garcia is an associate professor of American civilization, ethnic studies, and history at Brown University. His book A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 (Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) was named cowinner for the best book in oral history by the Oral History Association in 2003. His current book project, A Moveable Feast: The United Farm Workers in the Era of the Grape Boycott, to be published by the University of California Press, explores the formation of the most successful consumer boycott in U.S. history and the grassroots activists and union leaders who created it. He was also the outreach director and co–primary investigator for the Bracero History Archive Project, which was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in 2008, and the recipient of the Best Public History Award from the National Council for Public History in 2009–10.
Laura Kanost is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Kansas State University. She studies spatial and corporeal experiences of culturally mediated identities in Latin American literature. A literary translator, she is currently working on a bilingual anthology of screenplays written by Mexican women.
John Massier, the visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, since 2001, has there curated over fifty solo and group exhibitions and residency projects featuring U.S. and international artists. He also serves as the project director for Beyond/In Western New York 2010, a regional biennial organized with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and ten other Buffalo area cultural organizations. In the 1990s he worked at the Koffler Gallery [End Page 144] in Toronto, where he curated more...
