Contributors
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Ruthann Clay recently graduated from George Mason University with a BS in conflict analysis and resolution. During her undergraduate career she received support from the University's OSCAR (student creativity and research) program, which supported research for the present article as well as a published essay on "American Guilt: A Challenge for Emotions Historians," also coauthored with Peter Stearns. Clay plans to continue her education through a doctoral program with particular attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture.
Fabrice Langrognet is a PhD candidate in history and a Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. His research is on the socio-cultural identifications of migrants living in one housing unit of the Plaine-Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, between the 1880s and 1930s. Before entering Cambridge, he served for four years as a judge in the administrative branch of the French judiciary and worked as a speechwriter for the president of the French Republic from 2013 to 2014.
Kevin A. Murphy is a former visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Evansville. He completed his BA in history education at Siena College and his MA and PhD in history at Binghamton University (SUNY). A scholar of nineteenth-century American childhood, Murphy's work focuses on the interrelationship between children's literature and the growing cultural and political significance of childhood from the early republic to the US Civil War. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication, a project tentatively entitled, "A Duty to Perform: The Political and Cultural Significance of Childhood in America, 1790–1865."
Nara Milanich is associate professor of Latin American history at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research areas include the comparative history of family and kinship, childhood, reproduction, gender, and law. Her book Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930 (Duke, 2009) received the Grace Abbott Prize from the Society of Childhood and Youth History. She is currently writing a global history of paternity testing, The Birth of Uncertainty: Testing Paternity in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2019). She volunteers with the CARA Pro Bono Project in Dilley, Texas. [End Page 285]
Jane Nicholas is associate professor of history and sexuality, marriage, and family studies at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo. She is the author of The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s (2015) and Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body (2018).
Peter N. Stearns is university professor of history at George Mason University. He has published widely on the history of childhood and parenting and on emotions history. Recent books include Shame: A Brief History (2017) and Childhood in World History, 3rd edition (2011), which has been translated into several other languages. Stearns long served as editor of the Journal of Social History, helped organize the Advanced Placement program in world history, and earlier enjoyed a term as vice president of the American Historical Association, teaching division.
Bart Ziino is senior lecturer in history in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia. He has published widely on the experience of the First World War and the ways in which that event has been remembered in private and in public. His previous publications include A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (2007) and the edited volume Remembering the First World War (2014). He is currently engaged in a history of private sentiment in Australia during the First World War. [End Page 286]
