Contributors
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ELLEN BOUCHER is an assistant professor of history at Amherst College. She is the author of Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is currently researching a monograph about changing popular attitudes concerning survival within twentieth-century British culture, tentatively entitled Be Prepared: War, Empire, and the Culture of Survival in Modern Britain. An article related to that research, entitled “Arctic Dreams and Imperial Ambitions: the Hunt for John Franklin and the Victorian Culture of Survival,” is forthcoming in The Journal of Modern History.
PAULA FINDLEN is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and department chair at Stanford University. Her research explores the relationship between gender and knowledge in early modern Italy. Her publications include: with Rebecca Messbarger, eds. and trans., The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women’s Education in Eighteenth-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2005); and with Wendy Wassyng Roworth and Catherine Sama, eds., Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Stanford University Press, 2009). She is currently in the midst of a project concerning the legacy of Christine de Pizan and the invention of medieval women in sixteenth-through eighteenth-century Italy.
FIONA GRIFFITHS is professor of medieval history at Stanford University. Her research addresses intellectual and religious life from the ninth to the thirteenth century, with a focus on the possibilities for social experimentation and cultural production inherent in medieval religious reform movements. She is particularly interested in questions of gender, spirituality, and authority as they pertain to the experiences and interactions of religious men with women. Griffiths is the author of The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century, The Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); and coeditor with Julie Hotchin of Partners in Spirit: Men, Women, and Religious Life in Germany, 1100–1500 (Brepols, 2014). Her study of the gendered spiritual rhetoric of nuns’ priests is forthcoming: Nuns’ Priests Tales: Men and Salvation in Women’s Monastic Life, The Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press).
TADASHI ISHIKAWA is a postdoctoral fellow in the Chiu Program for Taiwan Studies at Oregon State University. He received a doctorate from [End Page 226] the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. In 2015–2016, he was the Journal of Women’s History postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Binghamton University. His research and teaching focus on Japanese and East Asian history, imperialism and colonialism, gender and sexuality, and legal history. His current book project, entitled “Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in the Japanese Empire,” studies the Japanese Empire—Japan and colonial Taiwan—with a focus on gender in the socio-legal boundaries of family and marriage in the early twentieth century.
DEBORAH JORDAN is an Australian historian and senior research fellow (adjunct) at the National Centre of Australian Studies at Monash University; early in her career, she taught history at Flinders University in South Australia. She has published widely on Australian cultural history and women’s history. Her biography, Nettie Palmer: Search for an Aesthetic, was first published by Informit in 1999 and Loving Words, Love Letters between Vance and Nettie Palmer 1909–1914 will be published in 2017 by Brandl & Schlesinger. Her more recent research led to the publication of Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014). With the women’s studies scholar Carole Ferrier at the University of Queensland, she also coedited Hibiscus and Ti-Tree, Women in Queensland for the centenary of women’s suffrage in 2005 (Hecate Press, 2009). Leading into the centenary, Queensland archivists and historians sought, but could not locate, the women’s suffrage petitions—the joint project to digitalize the petitions, when finally found in the parliament by John McCulloch, Jordan’s PhD student, engendered an enormous amount of interest.
MICHELLE T. KING is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese gender history and is the author of Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2014). Her...
