Marisela R. Chávez is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University at Dominguez Hills. She received her PhD in history at Stanford University. She has written “Pilgrimage to the Homeland: California Chicanas and International Women’s Year, Mexico City, 1975” in Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and “‘We Lived and Breathed and Worked the Movement’: The Contradictions and Rewards of Chicana/Mexicana Activism in el Centro de Acción Social Autónomo-Hermandad General de Trabajadores, Los Angeles, 1975–1978,” in Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2000). She is currently working on a manuscript that traces Chicana and Mexican American women’s activism from 1950 to 1980.
Nancy F. Cott
Nancy F. Cott is the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. Cott has authored or edited numerous books, most recently Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2000), and her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Feminist Studies, and The Journal of American History, among other publications. Cott has held research fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Law School, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She has also been a Fulbright lecturer in Japan and held a professorship at the Centre d’études nord-americaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Cott has also been an advisor for documentary films and public television productions and has lectured on college campuses and at academic conferences around the world.
Evelynn M. Hammonds
Evelynn M. Hammonds is dean of Harvard College and the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She previously served as Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. Hammonds’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race in the United States. She is the author of Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880–1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). She coedited Gender and Scientific Authority (University of Chicago Press Journals, 1996) and is completing two books on the history of race in science and medicine. Hammonds earned a PhD in the history of science from Harvard University, an SM in physics from MIT, a BEE in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Physics from Spelman College. She is an associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT. Hammonds serves on the board of governors of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the board of overseers of the Museum of Science, Boston, and the board of trustees of the Social Science Research Council.
Nancy A. Hewitt
Nancy A. Hewitt, Professor II of History and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University, received her PhD in history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. She taught at the University of South Florida and Duke University before moving to Rutgers in 1998. She has written extensively on American women’s activism and women’s rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her books include Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872 (Cornell University Press, 1984) and SouthernDiscomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s (University of Illinois Press, 2001). Hewitt has edited many collections, most recently Blackwell’s A Companion to American Women’s History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002) and Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History (Pearson Longman, 2007), and coauthored Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation’s History (Bedford/St. Martins, 2007). She is currently completing a second coauthored American history textbook, “Exploring American Histories,” with Steven Lawson; working on a biography of 19th-century abolitionist-feminist Amy Post; and editing a volume titled “No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of American Feminism.”
Judith Newton
Judith Newton is professor emerita of women and gender studies at the University of California at Davis, where she directed the program for eight years. She was one of the founders of a graduate program in cultural studies at Davis, and for the last four years, she has directed a research center, The Consortium for Women and Research. She is the author of From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men’s Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005); Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique (University of Michigan Press, 1994); and Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778–1860 (University of Georgia Press, 1981). She is coeditor, with Deborah Rosenfelt, of Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and Culture (Methuen, 1985) and, with Mary Ryan and Judith Walkowitz, of Sex and Class in Women’s History (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983).
Barbara Ransby
Barbara Ransby is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the departments of African American studies and history. She is the author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), a biography that received eight national awards and distinctions; has published dozens of articles and essays; and writes regularly for the Progressive Media Project, a national distributor of opinion editorials to Knight Ridder and other newspapers. She is also a guest contributor to Chicago Public Radio’s Eight-Forty-Eight program. Ransby is currently working on two major research projects: a study of African American feminist organizations in the 1970s and a political biography of Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2009. She serves on the board of several publications and nonprofits and is chair of the Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association. Her scholarship has been recognized with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Scholarship Award, among other awards. She received her BA from Columbia University and her PhD in history from the University of Michigan, where she was a National Mellon Fellow.
Robert Self
Robert Self is an associate professor of history at Brown University. His work is concerned with the politics of post–World War II American liberalism and with the state as a site of contest over the social divisions of class, race, and gender. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton University Press, 2003), which won academic prizes from the Organization of American Historians, the American Political Science Association, the Urban History Association, and the Urban Affairs Association. He is currently writing a book, provisionally titled “The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in America from Watts to Reagan,” that examines the contentious and far-reaching contests over national gender norms, the family, and sexual privacy, whose distinct strands merged and overlapped during the nearly two decades between the Watts riot in 1965 and the rise of the Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. Self received 2007–2008 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the latter fellowship supported by a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the ACLS.
Reva Siegel
Reva Siegel is the deputy dean and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how popular movements interact with representative governments and courts in shaping constitutional understanding. Over her career, Siegel has traced debates over equal citizenship and race and has analyzed the family as a site of citizenship struggle in debates over suffrage, domestic violence, reproductive rights, and the relationship between work and family. Much of her current work is on themes of democratic constitutionalism—examining how social movement conflict guides constitutional change—in questions of constitutional interpretation generally and in controversies over abortion. Siegel is now editing a collection of essays by progressive legal scholars, titled “The Constitution in 2020,” and working on an essay on late-20th century mobilization on gun control and the Second Amendment. Her publications include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, 2006), with Brest, Levinson, Balkin, and Amar, and Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (Yale University Press, 2003), edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon.
Marc Stein
Marc Stein is an associate professor of history and director of the sexuality studies program at York University in Toronto. He is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson/Gale, 2004). He has received grants, fellowships, and awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York, and the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. Formerly the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston and chair of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, he is completing a manuscript titled “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965–1973.”
Deborah Gray White
Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She received her PhD in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her dissertation became the basis for her first book, Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (W. W. Norton, 1985). She is the author of Let My People Go, African Americans 1804–1860 (Oxford University Press, 1996); Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994 (W. W. Norton, 1999); and several K–12 textbooks on United States history. She is also a senior editor of the second edition of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press, 2005). A former chair of the Rutgers University Department of History, White is also the former project codirector of “The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender,” a two-year seminar and conference project of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. As a recent fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, she conducted research for her forthcoming monograph, “Can’t We All Just Get Along? American Identity at the Turn of the Millennium.”
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, where she teaches courses in modern US, Asian American, and women’s histories. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 1998 and is the author of Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Women’s History, the Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of African American History, and in several anthologies. Her current book project, tentatively titled Radicals on the Road: Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era, is under contract with The United States in the World Series, published by Cornell University Press. She is on the editorial boards for the Journal of American History and the Journal of Women’s History.
