Contributors
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SIMONE M. CARON is professor of history at Wake Forest University. She joined the faculty in 1991 and was chair of the department from 2005 to 2013. Her research interests span from 1830 to the present and include American medical history, reproductive issues (birth control, abortion, sterilization), midwifery, alcoholic women, unwed mothers, and infanticide. Her teaching interests center on gender and medical history, the Great Depression, the long decade of the Sixties, and American political, social, economic, and cultural history since 1865. She is the author of Who Chooses?: American Reproductive History Since 1830 (University Press of Florida, 2008) and recipient of the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life, and the Jon Reinhardt Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
KARISSA HAUGEBERG is an assistant professor of history at Tulane University. Her research interests include twentieth-century social history, women’s and gender history, and the history of medicine. She is completing a book manuscript on women’s work in the campaign to end abortion, which is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.
JOAN MARIE JOHNSON is the author of Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875–1915 (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1898–1930 (University Press of Florida, 2004). She also co-edited a three volume historical anthology on South Carolina women, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2009–2012), and has published articles on Southern women, race, reform, and education. She is currently writing a book on women philanthropists who funded women’s rights causes including woman suffrage, higher education, and reproductive rights. Johnson teaches history at Northeastern Illinois University and is the co-founder and co-director of the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
MARIANNE KAMP is an associate professor of history at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches about Central Asia, the Soviet Union and its successor states. Kamp earned a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1998. Her oral history research focuses on Uzbek experiences of the Soviet period; she is currently working [End Page 205] on a book about the collectivization of agriculture in the 1930s. She is the author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press, 2006). Her edited translation, with Mariana Markova, Muslim Women of the Russian Empire: Vladimir and Maria Nalivkins’ nineteenth-century Fergana Valley Ethnography, is forthcoming from Indiana University press. She serves as book review editor for Central Asian Survey, and promotes international growth of scholarly interaction as a founding member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.
MIRE KOIKARI is associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research interests include gender, race, military, and empire in the Asia-Pacific region, with a specific focus on exploring varied and often convoluted connections among women, domesticity, feminism, and expansionism of the United States and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her publications include Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan (Temple University Press, 2008) and Cold War Encounters in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2015) from which portions of this article—accepted before the book’s publication—come.
MARLENE MEDRANO received her PhD in History at Indiana University and currently teaches United States and World History at Los Angeles City College. Her research interests include Latin America, United States-Mexico borderlands, gender and sexuality, and public health. She is also working on a manuscript that deals with the regulation of prostitution along the US-Mexican border.
JENNIFER MORI teaches early modern British and French history at the University of Toronto. Her research interests encompass politics, diplomacy, popular culture, and the history of ideas. Her published works include The Culture of Diplomacy. Britain in Europe, c.1750–1830 (Manchester University Press). She is now working on a history of cheaper books and public entertainments in eighteenth century towns...
