Contributors
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Karen Dubinsky
Karen Dubinsky teaches in the Global Development Studies and History departments at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. She is the author of Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929 (1993) and The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls (1999) and co-editor of New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (2009). Her most recent book, Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas (2010), focuses on North America, Cuba and Guatemala.
Fabio Lanza
Fabio Lanza is associate professor of modern Chinese history in the Departments of History and East Asian Studies of the University of Arizona. He is the author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Columbia University Press, 2010). His main research interests are politics and urban space in twentieth-century China.
Steven Mintz
Steven Mintz directs Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Center. He is the author and editor of 13 books, including Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004). Previously a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he is also past president of H-Net, and past chair of the Council on Contemporary Families. He is the creator of the Digital History website (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu).
Jennifer Robin Terry
Jennifer Robin Terry is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests center on children and the family in the twentieth-century United States with particular emphasis on the social and cultural within the context of imperialism, war, and public policy. She served as a consultant on the documentary, Victims of Circumstance, about [End Page 177] the Santo Tomás Internment Camp, and has taught a variety of courses on United States history at California State University, Sacramento.
Vassiliki Theodorou
Vassiliki Theodorou is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Greek History at Democritus University of Thrace. She studied political sciences, sociology and history in Greece and France. She writes on the history of philanthropy in Greece, the history of childhood and on the social history of health during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has published extensively on these areas in Greek and international journals. Her most recent publications include a book on the social history of child health in Greece during the first decades of the 20th century. The English version of this study is forthcoming in spring 2012 by the Central European University Press under the title: Building a Future for the Nation: A Social History of Child Health Care in Greece (1880-1936). She currently conducts research on the Greek Civil War in Thrace.
Katy Turton
Katy Turton is a lecturer in Russian and Soviet history in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast. She is the author of Forgotten Lives: the Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937 (2007). Her main research interests center on the role of women and family networks in the Russian revolutionary movement and she has published a number of articles on this topic, including "The Revolutionary, his Wife, the Party and the Sympathizer: The Role of Family Members and Party Supporters in the Release of Revolutionary Prisoners" in The Russian Review.
Vassiliki Vassiloudi
Vassiliki Vassiloudi gained her M.A. in Children's Literature from the University of Reading, U.K. (distinction, 1998) and her Ph.D. in the same area from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (2004) for which she received scholarships from the Onasis Foundation and the State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) respectively. Her academic interests lie in the fields of children's literature and the history of childhood and children. A book, based on her doctoral thesis is forthcoming with the Institute for Neohellenic Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation under the provisional title The Child's Paper (1868-1893): A Case Study of a Greek Protestant Children's Magazine. She currently conducts research on the Greek Civil War in Thrace. [End Page 178]
