Contributors
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Cynthia M. Blair is an associate professor in the departments of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and currently serves as interim head of the Department of African American Studies. She studies the intersection of race and sexuality in American society, African American urban history, American film and popular culture, West Indian immigration, and transnational networks and identities. Her research focuses primarily on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book, I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2010), explores African American women’s sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city’s most explosive growth, expanding our view not just of prostitution but also of black women’s labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, the emergence of modern sexuality, and the criminalization of black women in the early-twentieth-century city. The book won the Lora Romero Book Prize, awarded by the American Studies Association to the best first book in American studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality, and/or nation. She is currently working on two research projects. The first, “Moms Mabley: A Cultural Biography,” is a book project that examines the life and career of the African American comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley. The second, “‘In a Time like This’: Jamaican Migrants to the United States, 1940–1964,” is an oral history and documentary project that explores the migrations of men and women from Jamaica to the midwestern United States at the middle of the twentieth century.
Margot Canaday is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009). [End Page 214]
Emily Cheng is an assistant professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently working on a project on representations of immigration and transnational adoption from China.
John D’Emilio is a professor of gender and women’s studies and history at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author or editor of several books, including Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 (University of Chicago Press, 1983) and Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (University of Chicago Press, 2003). His awards include the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime contributions to gay and lesbian studies, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Publishing Triangle, and the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award of the Organization of American Historians.
Jennifer Denbow is an assistant professor of political science at the University of New England. Her research is focused on reproductive law and politics in the United States. Her book, Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction, is forthcoming from New York University Press.
Thomas Foster is an associate professor in the Department of History at DePaul University. He is the author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality (Beacon Press, 2007) and editor of Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Estelle B. Freedman is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in US history at Stanford University, where she cofounded the undergraduate Program in Feminist Studies. The recipient of multiple teaching awards and research fellowships, she is the author of two prize-winning books on the history of women’s prison reform, Their Sisters’ Keepers (University of Michigan Press, 1981) and Maternal Justice (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She has also written No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (Ballantine Books, 2002) and edited The Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library, 2007). With John D’Emilio she has written Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (3rd ed., University of Chicago Press, 2012) and edited “My Desire for History”: Essays on Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Bérubé (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Her most recent [End Page 215] book is...
