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Regina Braker is associate professor of German at Eastern Oregon University. Her work includes publications on women in the German peace movement.

Nancy F. Cott is Sterling Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Her latest book is Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2000).

Jennifer Anne Davy is currently writing a dissertaion at the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin on the German women's peace movement from 1892 to 1933. <jedav26@ginko.de>

William Graebner is professor of history and chair of the department at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He is author of The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991).<william.graebner@fredonia.edu>

Robert L. Griswold is O'Brien Presidential Professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Oklahoma. His publications include Family and Divorce in California, 1850–1890 (1982) and Fatherhood in America: A History (1993). He currently is at work on a history of youth and sport in America since 1945.<rgriswold@ou.edu>

Sylvia D. Hoffert is professor of history and women's studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she teaches courses on the history of women and the history of gender. She is currently writing a biography of Jane Grey Swisshelm and is the author of The History of Gender in America (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming). <shoffert@email.unc.edu>

Evelyn Hu-Dehart is professor and chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also a member of the "Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color" seminar through the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, which is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Her current research focuses on work and women garment sweatshop workers in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. <hudehard@spot.colorado.edu> [End Page 234]

Ute Kätzel is an independent scholar in Germany. Her work focuses on peace activism and nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries German women's history. Her latest work, Die 68erinnen, is forthcoming from Verlag Rowohlt. <ukaetzel@aol.com>

Wendy Kozol is associate professor of women's studies at Oberlin College. She is author of Life's America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism (1994) and coeditor, with Wendy Hesford, of Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" (2001). She has also published articles on television news, documentary photography, and news coverage of domestic violence in anthologies and such journals as Genders and Signs.<wendy.kozol@oberlin.edu>

Jill Lepore is associate professor of history and American studies at Boston University and author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998) and A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (forthcoming, 2002). She is also coeditor of Common-Place (www.common-place.org).

Jane F. Levey (1960–1999) was a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale University, completing a dissertation to be called "Constructing Families, Building a Nation: Reconversion and the Family in Postwar America, 1945–1950" when leukemia took her life.

Elaine Tyler May is professor of American studies and history at the University of Minnesota. Her books include Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (rev. ed., 1999), Pushing the Limits: American Women, 1940–1961(1994), and Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (1997).<mayxx002@umn.edu>

Sonya Michel teaches gender and women's history in the United States and in comparative perspective at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is also director of gender and women's studies. She is author of Children's Interests /Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy (1999) and founding coeditor of the journal Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society.<smichel@uic.edu>

Robert Nemes is assistant professor of history at Colgate University. He presently is working on a study of civil society, nationalism, and cultural life in nineteenth-century Hungary. <rnemes@mail.colgate.edu> [End...

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