Editor’s Note

It is with great pleasure that I announce the new editor for the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is Annette Timm, associate professor of history at the University of Calgary, Canada. She obtained her PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1999. Her publications include The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University press, 2010), Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day (coauthored with Joshua A. Sandborn, Berg Publishers, 2007), and many articles and book chapters, including “Sex with a Purpose: Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Militarized Masculinity in the Third Reich,” published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality in 2002. She is currently at work on a book to be titled Lebensborn: Myth, Memory, and the Sexualization of the Nazi Past. She has organized several conferences on the history of sexuality, including “Popular Sex: Mass Media and Sexuality in Germany” (at the University of Calgary in 2010) and “Democracy and Intimacy: Toward a Moral History of Postwar Europe” (at the Université de Montréal in 2007). She has been invited to speak on her work at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, the University of Chicago, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Harvard University, the University of Erfurt, the University of Cologne, and the University of Paris, among other places. She brings great enthusiasm and energy as well as great knowledge and dedication to the field, and I look forward to seeing what she will accomplish as the new editor.