Contributors
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Amy Helen Bell is an associate professor in the History Department of Huron University College, London ON, Canada. Her research and teaching focuses on the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain, particularly London. She is the author of two books, London was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz (2008) and Murder Capital: Suspicious Deaths in London, 1933– 1953 (2015) and is currently working on projects involving the history of crime scene photography and forensics.
Jeanne Klein teaches US theatre history, theatre for young audiences, drama with children, and child media psychology at the University of Kansas. Her numerous articles on children and youth have been published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Youth Theatre Journal, among many others. Upon her near future retirement, she hopes to further her historical investigations of children’s critical roles in theatre.
Mike Kugler earned his PhD in European intellectual history from the University of Chicago. He is professor of history at Northwestern College (Iowa), where he teaches courses in modern European history. He concentrates his research and writing on the Scottish Enlightenment, intellectual history, and historical narrative in movies and comic books.
Sonja Matter is a visiting researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Her current research project carries the title: “The Age of Consent. Sexuality, Law and the History of Adolescence (1950–1980)” and is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is the author of Der Armut auf den Leib rücken. Die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Schweiz (1900–1960) and of several articles on the history of gender and sexuality and the history of the welfare state in modern Europe. She was a lecturer in the History Department of the University of Bern, Basel and Lucerne and coordinator of the research project “Philanthropy and Social Vulnerability in Switzerland (1890–1920).”
Shani Roper received her B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and her Ph.D. in History from Rice University. Roper served as Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies, [End Page 153] Smith College (2013—2015) and is currently the Research Officer of Liberty Hall: the Legacy of Marcus Garvey in Kingston, Jamaica. Roper’s work focuses on children in the late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-Caribbean, more specifically on how the intersection of poverty, debility, race and gender influence and shape notions of citizenship and the role of children in development.
Martin Woodside earned his Ph.D. in Childhood Studies from the University of Rutgers-Camden, where he completed his dissertation on nineteenth-century boyhood and the mythology of the American frontier. He has a background in children’s literature and creating writing, and his research interests include gender, popular culture, material culture, and performance. His scholarly work has been published in Otherness: Essays and Studies and Boyhood Studies. [End Page 154]
