Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors
James Alsop holds history degrees from the universities of Winnipeg, Western Ontario, and Cambridge. He is professor emeritus of history at McMaster University. His current research is focused on American and British adolescence in the premodern era. This study of child health was supported by a research grant from the Virginia Historical Society for an investigation of Drs. Gustavus and Frederick Horner.
Hugh Morrison is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on New Zealand religious history alongside histories of British world childhood and religion. He is an editorial board member for the Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood series and an Overseas Committee member for the Children’s History Society (UK). His published work includes Pushing Boundaries: New Zealand Protestants and Overseas Missions, 1827–1939 (Otago University Press, 2016) and, co-edited with Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich, UK), Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800–1950 (Routledge, 2017).
Vyta Baselice is a PhD candidate in American studies at George Washington University. She is broadly interested in American cultural history with particular focus on the built environment, labor, and capitalism.
Dante A. Burrichter is an undergraduate at George Mason University, majoring in philosophy. This is his first publication, but he intends to pursue research on the sociology and history of emotions, and he has already begun doing so through the university’s student research program.
Peter M. Stearns is university professor in history at George Mason University. He has published widely on the history of emotions and of childhood, and co-chairs the new North American Chapter for Historians of Emotion. His next book, for classroom use, is Culture Change in Modern World History (Bloomsbury).
Stephen A. Toth is an associate professor of modern European history at Arizona State University. His first book, Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854–1952, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2006. A revised and expanded French translation entitled Bagne: Guyane,Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1854–1952 was published by Gaussen in 2011. His next book, Mettray: A History of France’s Most Venerated Carceral Institution, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2019. His research on the history of crime and punishment in France and the Francophone world has also appeared in numerous international journals.
Amy Harris, associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, researches families, women, and gender in early modern Britain. She is particularly interested in the way family and social relationships inform one another. Her first book, Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike (Manchester, 2012), explored sibling relationships and their connections to political and social ideas of equality. She has completed fellowships at UCLA’s Center for 17th-and 18th-Century Studies and the Newberry Library. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Single View: Family Life and the Unmarried in Georgian England.
Sherry Olson is professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, McGill University, and a member of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIÉQ); she is co-author of Peopling the North American City, Montreal 1840–1900 (2011) and author of a book-length social history of Baltimore, Maryland.
Peter Holland, as professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, University of Otago,he has authored Home in the Howling Wilderness, Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand (2013) and numerous papers in environmental history. His joint papers with Sherry Olson address transformations of landscapes and livelihoods in southern New Zealand since the mid-nineteenth century.
Colin Ackerman is a PhD candidate in media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, within the College of Media, Communication, and Information. His research interests include the historical trajectory of childhood experience through mass media, the role of digital media and technology in the K–12 classroom, and youth popular culture as a potential site of resistance against hegemony. Colin holds a BA in mass communication from Miami University and an MEd in instructional practice from Lipscomb University. Prior to attending graduate school, he was an elementary school teacher in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
