Contributors
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HYAEWEOL CHOI is the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include gender and empire, modernity, religion, and transnational history. She is the author of Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009) and New Women in Colonial Korea (Routledge, 2013). She is the co-editor of Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (ANU Press, 2014) and a co-author of Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (West-view, 2016). She is currently completing a monograph that reexamines the formation of modern gender relations in Korea under Japanese colonial rule from a transnational perspective. It explores the dynamic flow of the ideas, discourses, materials, and people across national boundaries that triggered new gender norms, reformed domestic practices, fostered a sense of locality, and helped women claim new space in the public sphere.
CARA DELAY holds degrees from Boston College and Brandeis University. Her research analyzes women, gender, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, with a particular focus on the history of reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth. She has published in The Journal of British Studies, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Feminist Studies, Études Irlandaises, New Hibernia Review, and Éire-Ireland and written blogs for Nursing Clio and broadsheet.ie. Her co-edited volume Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950 was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2015, and her monograph on Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. At the College of Charleston, she teaches courses on Irish history, women's history, and the history of birth and bodies.
KATHERINE JELLISON is the author of It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2008). She is a professor at Ohio University where she chairs the Department of History.
MICHELINE LESSARD obtained her PhD in history from Cornell University in 1995. She is currently associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her area of specialization is Southeast Asia and her research focuses the history of Vietnamese women, human trafficking, and labor trafficking and migrations. She has published articles in such journal as the French Colonial History and The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. She is co-editor with the historian Tamara Hunt of the book Women and the Colonial Gaze (New York University Press, 2002) and the sole author of Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam (Routledge, 2015). She is the recipient of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada to conduct research on illicit networks of labor recruitment in colonial Vietnam.
CAROLYN HERBST LEWIS is associate professor of history and chair of the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Program at Grinnell College. She is the author of Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Her research interests encompass constructions of norms, knowledge, and authority in the often-overlapping histories of sexuality and medicine.
LAURA MOORE recently received her PhD in US history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on African American and US women's history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current project explores the rise of African Americans' politicized consumption in the Civil War and Reconstruction South.
RACHEL SANDWELL is an affiliate professor in the Department of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work explores the participation of women in anti-colonial movements in sub-Saharan Africa in the latter part of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on African feminisms, pre-histories of intersectionality, women's left-wing movements, and the place of sex, love, and reproduction in resistance movements. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the intersections of sex, race, and gender in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. Analyzing archival material, oral history interviews, and works of fiction and memoir, the book argues that activists inside the African National Congress saw the transformation...
