Contributors
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Nwando Achebe is an award-winning author and professor of history at Michigan State University. She is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of West African History. Achebe received her PhD from UCLA in 2000. In 1996 and 1998, she served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her research interests involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria. Her first book, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960 was published in 2005 (Heinemann). Achebe’s second book, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011), winner of The Aidoo-Snyder, The Barbara “Penny” Kanner, Gita Chaudhuri Book Awards, is a full-length critical biography on the only female warrant chief and king in all of colonial Nigeria, and arguably British Africa. Achebe has received prestigious grants from Wenner-Gren, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright-Hays, Ford Foundation, World Health Organization, and NEH.
Genny Beemyn speaks and writes extensively on trans issues, particularly on creating trans-inclusive college campuses. Ze has written or edited eight books/journal issues, including special issues of the Journal of LGBT Youth on “Trans Youth” and on “Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Children and Youth” and a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality on “LGBTQ Campus Experiences.” Genny’s most recent works are The Lives of Transgender People (Columbia University Press, 2011), which was written with Sue Rankin; A Queer Capital: A History of LGBT Life in Washington, D.C. (Routledge, 2014, forthcoming); and the “Transgender History” chapter for Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014, forthcoming). In addition to being the director of the Stonewall Center, ze also tracks trans-related college policies for Campus Pride. Genny has a Ph.D. in African American Studies and Master’s degrees in African American Studies, American Studies, and Higher Education Administration.
Cecilia Belej received her M.A. in Latin American Art History (Institute of Social Studies-University of San Martín) and her PhD in History at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She teaches Social History at Buenos Aires University. Her areas of interest are visual studies and the political use of mural painting in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. She is a member of [End Page 363] the Project: Archivo Palabras e Imágenes de Mujeres, Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Institute, University of Buenos Aires.
Iris Berger is Vincent O’Leary Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her PhD in African history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has ranged from politics and religion in precolonial East Africa to more recent labor movements, women’s organizing, and U.S.-African connections in South Africa. Her major publications include the award-winning Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period (Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, 1981); Women and Class in Africa, ed. with Claire Robertson (Holmes & Meier, 1981); Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980 (Indiana University Press, 1992); Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History, with E. Frances White (Indiana University Press, 1999); and South Africa in World History (Oxford University Press, 2009). She has served as President of the African Studies Association, as Vice President for Research of the American Historical Association, as an editor of the Journal of African History, and as Director of Women’s Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women on her campus.
Ida Blom is professor emerita at the University of Bergen, Norway. Blom has published widely on women’s global and national history, mostly in Norwegian. However, themes treated in her books often appear as articles in English in international journals, see for instance “Nationalism and Feminism in Europe”, a contribution to the web feature, “European history, Gender history” on Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2009). Some of her books focus on birth control and midwifery, another concentrates on women’s importance in the fight against tuberculosis. Her latest book concerns legislation on venereal diseases: Medicine, Morality and Political Culture. Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries...
