Contributors The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 11, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 145-148 (Article) Published by Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2018.0026 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/684293 No institutional affiliation (16 Mar 2019 15:55 GMT)
Contributors Frances M. Clarke is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia. In 2011, she published War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North, which jointly won the Australian Historical Association s biennial prize for best work of history for a first-time author. Currently, she is co-writing with Rebecca Jo Plant a book on the use of underage soldiers and debates over youth and militarism during the American Civil War. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is associate professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Young People s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She has recently published Yes to Solidarity, No to Oppression: Radical Fantasy Fiction and Its Young Readers (2016). Her research focuses on speculative fiction, cognitive poetics, and participatory and child-led approaches. Lincoln Geraghty is reader in Popular Media Cultures in the School of Media & Performing Arts at the University of Portsmouth. He is senior editor for the online open access journal from Taylor Francis, Cogent Arts and Humanities. Major publications include Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (IB Tauris, 2007), American Science Fiction Film and Television (Berg, 2009) and Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014). His research interests center on the relationship between popular media, memory, and fandom. Michael Grossberg is the Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and a professor of law at Indiana University. He has written a number of books and articles on American legal and social history and has been involved in several family policy research projects. He is currently working on a study of child protection in the United States. Grossberg also edited the American Historical Review from 1995 to 2005 and recently completed a term as president of the American Society for Legal History. Helle Strandgaard Jensen is associate professor in history, Aarhus University. Her research focuses on contemporary childhood and media history in Scandinavia, Europe, and the US after 1945. Jensen is the author of Superman to Social Realism: Children s media and Scandinavian childhood (2017) as well as Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (v11.1) 2018 by Johns Hopkins University Press
146 contributors articles on childhood history, children s media culture, and digital archives impact on historiography. She is currently working on a comparative project about the reception of Sesame Street in 1970s Europe. Vanessa Joosen is associate professor of english literature and children s literature at the University of Antwerp. She is the author of, among others, Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales (2011), as well as the co-editor of the Dutch history of children s literature Een land van waanenwijs (2014, with Helma van Lierop and Rita Ghesquiere) and Grimm s Tales Around the Globe (2014, with Gillian Lathey). In 2018, her new edited volume, Connecting Childhood and Old Age, will appear with the University Press of Mississippi. Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer is a professor of children s literature at Tilburg University in the Netherlands (Department of Culture Studies) and chair of the Dutch IBBY-section. She is a member of the editorial board of Literatuurzonderleeftijd (Literature without age) and a member of the advisory board of International Research for Children s Literature, IRCL. Her main research interests are literary socialization, adolescent literature, the history of Dutch children s literature and life writing in children s literature. Mateusz Marecki is a PhD student at the University of Wrocław and a lecturer at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland. His research interests include empirical and cognitive approaches to studying literature and music. Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America and co-editor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century. Along with Frances M. Clarke, she won the 2015 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize for the best article in the field of the history of women, gender or sexuality for The Crowning Insult : Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s, which appeared in the Journal of American History. Chelsea Sambells began in communication studies, gaining two degrees at the University of Calgary before transitioning to the field of history. She completed her MSc and PhD at the University of Edinburgh,. Most recently, her research has investigated the evacuation of 60,000 French and Belgian children to
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 147 Switzerland (1940 1945), to better understand how governments and humanitarian organizations have historically and culturally protected children in war. Chelsea s research interests include refugees, children; political; diplomatic, oral, European and transnational history; disaster and humanitarian relief; communications; and rhetoric. Johanna Sköld is professor in child studies at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University (Sweden). Her research concerns the history of foster care, apology politics aimed at historically institutionally abused children internationally, and child evacuations during WWII. She is the co-editor (with Shurlee Swain) of Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in Care (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and co-editor (with Kaisa Vehkalahti) of a special issue on methodological and ethical issues in the history of education and childhood in History of Education, vol 45:4 (2016). Ingrid Söderlind is former senior lecturer at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, and associate professor in Child Studies at the Thematic Department, at Linköping University (Sweden). Her thesis concerned orphanages for girls in Stockholm 1870 1920 (1999) and thereafter she has been involved in research projects concerning foster care, children s citizenship, childhood and work, Nordic child welfare politics and child evacuations during WWII. She is the author of Orphanges for Girls in Stockholm 1870 1920. A Case Study in European Social History (2015), and co-editor of the anthology Children s Work in Everyday Life (2007). Nicholas L. Syrett is professor and chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. He is a coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present and author of two books: The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States. He is a co-chair of the Committee on LGBT History and a book review editor for this journal. His 2013 article in the JHCY won the Fass-Sandin Award from the Society for the History of Children and Youth. Jennifer Robin Terry is a doctoral candidate and graduate-student-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2014 she was awarded the Neil Sutherland Prize for the Best Scholarly Article on the History of Children and Youth for They used to tear around campus like savages : Children s and Youth s Activities in the Santo Tomás Internment Camp, 1942 1945, published in the JHCY.
148 contributors Sara Van den Bossche is an assistant professor of children s literature studies at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Her doctoral dissertation (Ghent University, Belgium, 2015) scrutinized the processes of canonisation at work in the reception of Astrid Lindgren s oeuvre in Flanders and The Netherlands. Her main teaching and research focuses are cultural diversity, canonisation, adaptation, picture books, and crossover literature. She co-edited Never-ending Stories. Adaptation, Canonisation and Ideology in Children s Literature (Ghent: Academia Press, 2014). Ingeborg Lunde Vestad is associate professor in music at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (HUAS). Her research focuses on children s musical cultures and children s phonograms. Publications include Children s subject positions in discourses of music in everyday life (2014) and This one Grandma knew too, exactly this one! : Processes of canonization in children s music (2017, coauthored with Dyndahl). Her current research is about the music of children s radio and television programs in a historical perspective. Elisabeth Wesseling is professor of gender studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. She is the director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity. Her work has been published in Children s Literature in Education, International Research in Children s Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Children s Literature Association Quarterly. Recent publications include two edited volumes: The Child Savage: From Comics to Games (Ashgate, 2016) and Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys, Media (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming in 2017).