Contributors
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LASHAWN HARRIS is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Social History, and the Journal of Urban History. Her current research focuses on police brutality in New York City during the 1980s.
ANGELA HORNSBY-GUTTING is an associate professor of history at Missouri State University. She is particularly interested in African American youth culture, race-based communal activism, and gender constructions among black men and women in the early twentieth century. Her first monograph, Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900–1930 (University Press of Florida, 2011) examined how black middle-class men reconciled disfranchisement and racial oppression in an era of legalized segregation by building, alongside black women, various communal institutions designed to improve the race and race relations. Her articles and essays have appeared in the Journal of Negro History, Journal of Southern History, Blackwell Companion to African-American History, and Southern Cultures. She is completing a monograph of the National Training School for Women and Girls. Her research details how the school functioned as a multi-organizational, transnational entity that operated in a modular fashion and satisfied numerous constituencies and ideologies.
ROBERT KRAMM is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study at Konstanz University and the Research Institute for Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang University. Before receiving his doctoral degree at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in 2016 and after earning his MA at the University of Erfurt in 2009, both in history, he was a lecturer in the Department for Chinese and Korean Studies at the University of Tübingen. His first book, Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952, was published in 2017 by University of California Press, and he co-edited the volume Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and "Immorality," which came out 2016 with Cambridge University Press.
ANNA LEBOVIC is a highly interdisciplinary scholar whose research combines US cultural history, gender and women's history, media studies, and fashion history. She received her BA (first-class honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney. She has taught US history at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney and has lectured in American studies at the United States Studies Centre. She currently teaches media studies at Macquarie University.
REGULA LUDI is professor of modern history in the History Department of the University of Zürich and in the Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics and Human Rights of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She is the author of the monographs Die Fabrikation des Verbrechens. Zur Geschichte der modernen Kriminalpolitik 1750–1850 (bibliotheca academica Verlag, 1999) and Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She has also published widely on the history of refugees in twentieth-century Europe and the history of memory and dealing with the past in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Her current research is on the history of human rights and women's rights since the interwar period.
ROBIN K. PAYNE is an associate professor of history at Fairmont State University in West Virginia, where she teaches courses on US history with particular attention to gender, sexuality, popular culture, and social justice. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, "Love and Liberation: Second-Wave Feminisms and the Problem of Romantic Love," which examines how feminists of the 1960s and 1970s grappled with the theoretical meanings and lived realities of romantic love, thus paving the way for more intersectional approaches to feminism to emerge. She has presented her work on Ms. and other related topics, like "feminist romance novels," at numerous scholarly venues, including the Organization of American Historians and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
CAMILLA TOWNSEND is distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of numerous books, among them Malintzin's...
