Notes on Contributors

Matthew H. Adamson, a doctoral student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, is working on a dissertation entitled "The Making of de Gaulle's Nuclear System." His interests include scientific and technological systems in their national and cultural contexts.

Patricia A. Buchanan received her doctorate in motor development in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Indiana University in 2003. A certified athletic trainer, she is an Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

James H. Capshew is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. He earned his doctorate in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and specializes in the history of American science and learning. The author of Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929-1969 (Cambridge, 1999), he has published articles in Technology and Culture, Osiris, and the American Psychologist, among other journals. His current research includes a synthetic history of twentieth-century psychology, a biography of educational leader Herman B Wells, and an investigation of neuropsychological pathography.

Peter Hegarty, who received his doctorate from Stanford University, is a social psychologist and historian of psychology. He is currently employed in the Psychology Department at the University of Surrey. Both lines of his research interrogate links between sexual politics and empiricist narratives in the psychological sciences. He is currently working on a project about Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and statistical practices in sexuality research.

Narisara Murray, who completed her bachelor of arts degree at Harvard University, is in the doctoral program in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. Her dissertation examines the social and cultural history of the London Zoological Society and Gardens in the nineteenth century.

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman received her doctorate in English from the University of Virginia and is now Associate Professor of English and an Affiliated Faculty Member in Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has recently published the book Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience (Ithaca, NY, 2003) and has also written on Victorian melodrama, realism, and fashion. In addition to Victorian literature and culture, her teaching interests include women's literature and Virginia Woolf.

Beryl Satter received her doctorate in American studies from Yale University in 1992. She is currently Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark. Her book, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920, was published by the University of California Press in 1999. This essay on the sexual abuse paradigm will form part of a larger book project, tentatively entitled "American Enchantment: Cultural Battles over Passivity, Family Structure, and Political Freedom, 1945-2000."

Patrick Singy is completing his doctorate in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Chicago. In addition to his interest in eighteenth-century sexuality, he is working on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century structures of medical perception in practices such as the taking of the pulse, percussion of the chest, and consultation by letter.

Naoko Wake, a graduate of Kyoto University, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Indiana University. She is researching the life and career of American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan.