Contributors
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Henryatta L. Ballah is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa. Currently, she is an assistant professor of history and Africana studies at Connecticut College. Her research interests include the Atlantic World, civil wars, labor and social movements, youth history, and women's history. Henryatta would like to thank the editor and the anonymous peer reviewers for their insightful feedback on this article. Additionally, she would like to thank Ousman Kobo, Melinda Bogarty, and Lisa Wilson for their feedback on drafts of this work.
Susan Eckelmann Berghel is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga. Her manuscript in progress, Freedom's Little Lights: Children and Teenagers in the U.S. and Abroad during the Civil Rights Era, examines the nexus of teenage youth, civil rights, and Cold War politics during the 1950s and 1960s. With Paul Renfro and Sara Fieldston, Eckelmann Berghel is the coeditor of Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945, an edited anthology under contract with the University of Georgia Press. In 2014, she completed her PhD in history and American studies at Indiana University–Bloomington.
Lynne Curry is professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. Her publications include The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention (2007); The Human Body on Trial: A Sourcebook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (2004); and Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900–1930 (1999).
Cara Elliott recently defended her dissertation at the College of William & Mary. Her dissertation, "P.S. Don't Tell My Mother: American Children Debate Race and Civil Rights, 1946–1991," argues that children's sources add a unique and necessary component to our understanding of the history of race and racism in twentieth-century America. Cara received support for her dissertation through fellowship awards from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation; the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Institute's Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Education; the Eisenhower Foundation and the College of William & Mary.
Woody Register is Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and director of the Sewanee [End Page 473] Slavery Project, an investigation of that university's history with slavery and its legacies. His current research examines friendships between organizers of boy-saving reform enterprises in Progressive-Era America and the boys they were determined to save. Most recently Register edited and wrote the introduction to William Osborne Dapping's The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club (2016), a newly discovered first-person account of boy gang life in 1890s New York City.
Peter Scholliers is professor of history at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. He studies the standard of living in Europe since the late eighteenth century, with particular interest in food. In 2004 he established FOST: Social and Cultural Food Studies, and he is currently editor (with Allen Grieco) of Food & History and coeditor of Appetite. Recent publications include "A Vehicle of Punishment? Prison Diets in Belgium circa 1900" (with E. Maes, A.S. Vanhouche, and K. Beyens) in Food, Culture & Society 20, no. 1 (2017): 77–100. [End Page 474]
