Contributors
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Kristine Alexander, York University, Toronto Canada
Kristine Alexander is a doctoral candidate in history at York University in Toronto Canada. Her dissertation examines the Girl Guide movement in interwar England, Canada and India. She is contributing chapters to two forthcoming edited collections—an international scouting history anthology published by Cambridge Scholars’ Press and one on Canadian and Newfoundland women and girls in the First World War by the University of British Columbia Press.
Brian D. Bunk, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Brian D. Bunk is one of the editors of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. He is also author of Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War (Duke, 2007). He recently published “ ‘A Sharp Note of Pugnacity’: Conservative Youth Groups in Spain, 1914–1939” in Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne Brian D. Bunk, Sasha D. Pack and Carl Gustaf-Scott, eds. (Parallel Press, 2008).
William S. Bush, Texas A&M University–San Antonio
William S. Bush is assistant professor of History at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. His book, The Origins of the Super-Predator: Race and Juvenile Delinquency in Twentieth-Century Texas, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
Miroslava Chávez-García, University of California, Davis
Miroslava Chávez-García is an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Arizona, 2004) as well as articles on gender, patriarchy, and the law in nineteenth-century California. Her current research interests and publications focus on juvenile delinquency, race, and science in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century California reform schools. She is now working on a book focusing on youth, race, and science in California, from the 1850s to the 1940s. [End Page 155]
Kathleen W. Jones, Virginia Tech University
Kathleen W. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child; American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard, 1999) and edits the Newsletter of the Society for the History of Children and Youth ( http://www.history.vt.edu/Jones/SHCY/index ). She was also a project team member for the Digital History Reader project funded by the NEH, a primary source-based website for study of US and modern European history ( http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu ). At present she is completing a history of youth suicide in the United States from 1870 to the present.
Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University
Mathew Kuefler is professor of history at San Diego State University, and editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. His publications include The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (Chicago, 2001), The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago, 2006), and The History of Sexuality Sourcebook (Broadview, 2007). He is currently at work on a monograph tentatively entitled The Memory of Gerald of Aurillac: Reading Medieval Hagiography as Doubt, Regret, Fantasy, and History.
James Marten, Marquette University
James Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. He is the founding secretary-treasurer of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and author or editor of a number of books on the histories of children and the Civil War era, including The Children’s Civil War (North Carolina, 1998), which was a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title.”
Tamara Myers, University of British Columbia
Tamara Myers is an associate professor in the history department at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869–1945 (Toronto, 2006) and co-editor of Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th Century Montreal (UBC Press, 2005). She is co-founder, with Mona Gleason, of the History of Children and Youth Group an affiliate of the Canadian Historical Association.
Stephen Robertson, University of Sydney, Australia
Stephen Robertson is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence...
