Journal of Women's History

Nwando Achebe is assistant professor of history at the College of William and Mary. She was a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at the Hansberry African Studies Institute and History Department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1996 and 1998. Her research interests involve using oral history to study women, gender, and power in Eastern Nigeria. She is the author of Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960 (Heinemann/Greenwood Press, forthcoming). <achebe@wm.edu>

Susan Groag Bell is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University and author of Between Worlds: In Czechoslovakia, England, and America (Dutton, 1991). Her first book on women's history, Women: From the Greeks to the French Revolution, was published in 1973. Her most recent work, "The Lost Tapestries of the 'City of Ladies': Christine de Pizan's Cultural Legacy in the Renaissance" will be published by the University of California Press. <groagbel@stanford.edu>

Patricia Cline Cohen is professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (Knopf, 1998).

Mary Maples Dunn is currently executive officer of the American Philosophical Society.

Nan Enstad is associate professor of history at University of Wisconsin, Madison and the author of Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 1999).

Colette A. Hyman teaches history and women's studies at Winona State University, in Winona, Minnesota. She is the author of Staging Strikes: Workers' Theatre and the American Labor Movement, and is currently writing a book on the history of Winona as seen through the eyes of European American and Native American women.

Laura Mcgough received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1997 and has taught at the University of Ghana and the College of [End Page 194] Charleston in South Carolina. .She currently lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, where she is completing her book manuscript, "Sex and Repentance: Venice during the Age of Syphilis"<mcgoughla@msn.com>

Marla R. Miller is assistant professor of history at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (under contract at University of Massachusetts Press) and is presently at work on a related study of the social relations of women's work in Hadley, Massachusetts. As director of the history department's public history program, her teaching interests extend to museum and historic site interpretation, public history, American material culture, and archival management and historic preservation.

Fiona Paisley is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. Her book, Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights, 1919–1939 (2000) focused on Australian women's local and international campaigns to challenge race policy in Australia. She is currently working on a book about the Pan-Pacific Women's Association from the perspectives of Australian, Canadian, and New Zealander delegations and the "problem" of race to feminist cultural internationalism. <fiona.paisley@anu.edu.au>

Satadru Sen is assistant professor of South Asian history at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands (Oxford University Press, 2000).< ssen@artsci.wustl.edu>

Lynn Sacco is an attorney and a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's Studies at UC-Santa Barbara, where she is writing a book on the history of incest in the United States.

Andrea J. Smidt is a doctoral student in history at the Ohio State University. Her research interests focus mainly on popular religious practices in eighteenth-century Spain.<smidt.1@osu.edu>

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and Director of the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University. Her latest book is The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of An American Myth. [End Page 195]