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Eileen Boris taught history at Howard University for fourteen years before becoming professor of studies in women and gender at the University of Virginia and coordinating editor of IRIS: A Journal about Women in fall 1998. Most recently she coedited, with Nupur Chaudhari, Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional (1999). She is working on the cultural and policy battles over mothers as wage earners in post–World War II United States. <ecb4d@virginia.edu>

Thomas Dublin is professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He currently is at work on a study of gender and de-industrialization in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania in the twentieth century. He is codirector of a World Wide Web site, "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830–1930," http://womhist.binghamton.edu. <tdublin@binghamton.edu>

Cindy Forster is assistant professor of history at Scripps College in Claremont, California. In addition to Latin American history, her teaching interests include labor-community internships in the Los Angeles area and oral history. She has published several articles and currently is finishing a manuscript on labor organizing among Guatemalan plantation workers during the 1940s and 1950s. <cforster@scrippscol.edu>

Barbara A. Hanawalt is King George III Professor of British History at the Ohio State University. Her books include The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), and "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (1998). She also has published numerous articles and edited a number of books. Her current research is on late medieval London women. <hanawalt.4@osu.edu>

Shira L. Lander is a Ph.D. candidate in religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the Ecumenical Institute of St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. She received her masters degree and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rene S. Marion is assistant professor of history at Ball State University. She writes on women, work, and politics in early modern France and [End Page 238] currently is completing a manuscript on Parisian market women and prerevolutionary political authority. <rmarion@gw.bsu.edu>

Heather Lee Miller is a doctoral candidate in women's history at the Ohio State University. She currently is working on her dissertation, tentatively titled "A Historical Sisterhood at the Margins of Women's Sexuality? Representations and Realities of Lesbians and Prostitutes in the United States, 1840–1940."<miller.1438@osu.edu>

Melissa Mowry is assistant professor of English at Moorhead State University, where she teaches eighteenth-century studies and cultural theory. She currently is at work on a study of prostitution and political pornography during the late Stuart dynasty (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). <mowry@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu>

Krista O'Donnell is assistant professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She currently is at work on the monograph "Women and Empire: Gender and Community in German Southwest Africa." <odonnellk@wpunj.edu>

Christopher J. Olsen is assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. Previously, he held the same position at Virginia Wesleyan College from 1996 to 1999, and received his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1996. His current work examines political culture, gender, and secession in Mississippi and will be published with Oxford University Press. <hiolsen@ruby.indstate.edu>

Anne Marie Pois is a senior instructor in the women's studies program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches courses on the history of U.S. women's activism in progressive social movements. Her previous articles have focused on U.S. women's peace history. She currently is doing research on a biography of Emily Greene Balch. <pois@spot.colorado.edu>

Thomas G. Schrand is assistant professor of history at Philadelphia University. He recently completed a manuscript titled "Soviet Industrialization and Women's Labor: Production, Reproduction, and Gender in the Stalin Era, 1928–1941." <schrandt@philau.edu>

Robert Shaffer is assistant professor of history at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and is completing his doctoral work at Rutgers University...

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