About the Contributors

Brittney Cooper is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (2017) and the critically acclaimed Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018), and winner of the 2018 Merle Curti Prize in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians.

Cornelia Hughes Dayton is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is currently researching legal and social responses to mental disorders in pre‐asylum New England, emphasizing race, gender, and class. Her publications include Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789 (1995); with Sharon V. Salinger, Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (2014); and, as co‐editor, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past (2010, 2015, 2019).

Tracey Deutsch is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her published work includes Building a Housewife’s Paradise: Gender, Government, and American Grocery Stores, 1919–1968 (2012) and numerous essays on food‐labor, gender, the life of Julia Child, and the history and politics of consumption. From 2016 to 2019, she was the Imagine Chair of Arts, Design and Humanities.

Leslie Dunlap is Continuing Professor of History, Women’s and Gender Studies and American Ethnic Studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Her book manuscript, No Easy Union: A Multiracial History of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the United States, 1873–1933, features six activists who organized around and wrote romance novels about race, sex, violence, and politics.

Nan Enstad is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (2018) and has published recently in Modern American History and the Boston Review. Her current research and teaching centers on agricultural conflict and food justice. www.nanenstad.com

Liette Gidlow is the 2019–2020 Mellon‐Schlesinger Fellow for the Long Nineteenth Amendment Project at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute and an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. She is the author of The Big Vote (2004) and Obama, Clinton, Palin (2012). Her current research explores connections between the Nineteenth Amendment and mid‐century black freedom movements.

Hilary Green is Associate Professor and Co‐Program Director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (2016).

Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book, Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California (2013), investigates native archives to examine how particular tribes survived Spanish colonialism. She is currently working on Imogene: Mother, Migration, Memory in Appalachia, a biography of a twentieth‐century working woman.

April Haynes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. Her first book, Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology and the Solitary Vice, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. She is currently writing two more: Tender Traffic: Intimate Labor Movements, 1790–1850 and Debating Gender: A History from the Ancient World to the Present Day.

Nancy A. Hewitt is Distinguished Professor Emerita in History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author most recently of Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds (2018) and is co‐chair of the Research and Interpretation Committee of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.

Ebony Jones is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Her research and teaching interests are in the histories of Atlantic world slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and imperial crime and punishment. Her current book project, Dangerous Characters: Geographies of Punishment and Atlantic World Slavery, explores the use of transportation as a form of punishment for enslaved people in the nineteenth‐century Caribbean.

Anna M. Lawrence is currently Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University. Her monograph, One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism, came out in 2011. She researches gender, race, sexuality, and concepts of family in early evangelicalism. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth‐century preacher Jarena Lee.

Steven F. Lawson is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. He has written widely about the civil rights movement and black politics and is the author of Running for Freedom (2014) and Exploring American Histories (2019) with Nancy A. Hewitt.

Jessica Millward is Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History at UC Irvine. Her first book was Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (2015). She is currently writing an examination of African American women's experiences with sexual assault and intimate partner violence in the late nineteenth century. A media‐savvy historian who specializes in bringing a historical perspective to modern times, she co‐founded the podcast, “Historians on Housewives,” which examines the long‐running Real Housewives TV franchise through the lens of historical scholarship.

Jennifer Mittelstadt is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She writes about the history of the twentieth‐century United States, with a focus on the state, social policy, privatization, the military, and women and gender. She has written numerous articles and three books, including, most recently, The Rise of the Military Welfare State (2015).

Rachel Louise Moran is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas. Her first book was Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique (2018). She is currently working on a history of postpartum depression and the politics of maternal mental health in the twentieth‐century United States.

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004) and Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic ( forthcoming).

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Her first book was Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston (2011). She is wrapping up work on her second, The Vice President’s Black Wife: Resurrecting Julia Chinn.

Jennifer Nelson is a US historian with an emphasis in women’s history. She teaches at the University of Redlands. Her first book was Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003). Her second, More Than Medicine: A History of the Women’s Health Movement (2016), extended her research on the feminist and women’s health movements in the United States. She is currently working on a book‐length project on the movements for and against legal abortion in Mexico.

Annelise Orleck is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of five books and the co‐editor of two, including Common Sense and A Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States (1995, 2017), Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Women Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005), Rethinking American Women's Activism (2014), and “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now”: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018). Her other publications include Soviet Jewish Americans (2001) and the co‐edited volume, The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History (2011).

Emily Skidmore is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. She is the author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2017) and an editor of the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History (2019) and the Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (Forthcoming). She is currently working on a project on representations of breastfeeding in the United States.

Terri L. Snyder is Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her research and teaching focus on the history of gender, race, and the law in early North America. She is the author of Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia (2003) and The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (2015).

Camilla Townsend is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of numerous works, among them Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004),...