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EILEEN BORIS is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent books are Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019 (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Engendering Transnational Transgressions: From the Intimate to the Global, coedited with Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Barbara Molony (Routledge, 2021). She is writing on migrant domestic workers and their struggles for freedom.
NICOLE BOURBONNAIS is associate professor in the International History and Politics Department and Co-Director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her work explores the history of reproductive politics, decolonization, feminism, and maternal health. She is author of Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and is currently working on a history of the twentieth-century global family planning movement.
SANDY F. CHANG is assistant professor of modern Asia in the History Department at the University of Florida. She is interested in Chinese migration and diaspora, gender, and sexuality in Southeast Asia and the British Empire. She is currently working on a book project that traces the border-crossing journeys of over a million Chinese women who traveled from coastal China to the Malay Peninsula in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She received her PhD from the University of Austin at Texas in 2020.
ANNA DOBROWOLSKAis Max Weber Fellow at the Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of Zawodowe dziewczyny. Prostytucja I praca seksualna w PRL (Professional Girls. Prostitution and Sex Work in State-Socialist Poland) (Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2020) which is the first full account of the history of commercial sex in postwar Poland. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, where she is investigating the history of the Polish “sexual revolution” in the two last decades of state socialism.
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PAMELA J. FUENTES is assistant professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University-NYC and interim director of the Latina/o Studies Program. She holds a PhD from York University in Toronto. Her research interests include gender in Latin America, urban politics, and sexuality in a global context. She has taught Latin American politics and history as well as gender studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is currently working on a book that will explore the debates on prostitution and sex trafficking against the backdrop of revolutionary politics and the consolidation of state authority in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s. She has written articles about the history of gender and sexuality in Mexico City in English and Spanish.
JULIA T. MARTÍNEZ is associate professor of history at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. She publishes on themes of colonialism, migration, and gender in Asia Pacific contexts. Her book with Adrian Vickers, The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network (University of Hawaii Press, 2015), won the 2016 QLD History Book Award and the NT History Book Award, and was shortlisted for the AHA Ernest Scott Prize. Her article, “Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914,” Australian Historical Studies 48, no. 2 (2017): 227–243, examining Australia’s Indian Ocean connections, won the 2018 Patricia Grimshaw Prize. Her recent books include Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific, coedited with Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel, and Victoria Haskins (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia, coedited with Kate Bagnall (Hong Kong University Press, 2021).
KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is associate professor in Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019) and coeditor with Denise A. Delgado of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School (University of Illinois Press, 2020). She serves on the executive committee for the Alliance of the Study of Adoption and Culture. McKee received her PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University.
EVA PAYNE is assistant professor of US history at the University of Mississippi. Her first book project examines American involvement in international anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She serves as the codirector of the Invisible Histories Project-Mississippi, which documents and preserves Mississippi’s LGBTQ history.
MAGALAY RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍAis associate professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She obtained her PhD in 2008 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her doctoral dissertation, which eventually became the book Liberal Workers of the World, Unite! The ICFTU and the Defence of Labour Liberalism in Europe and Latin America (1949–1969) (Peter Lang, 2010), won her the Labor History Dissertation Prize in 2008. From 2009 to 2015 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Research Foundation Flanders. Her research focuses on the history of international organizations, global labor, subalternity, and past and present prostitution policies. She was coeditor with Marcel van der Linden of On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery (Brill, 2016) and Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s–2000s (Brill, 2017) and published in, among others, the International Review of Social History, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and Monde(s).
CAROLINE SÉQUIN is assistant professor of modern European history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She completed her PhD in modern European history at the University of Chicago. She has since published “The Moving Contours of Colonial Prostitution (Fort-de-France, Martinique, 1940–1947), Clio Femmes, Genre, Histoire 50, no. 2 (November 2019): 19–36. She is currently at work on her first book, which explores the role that the management of commercial sex played in policing racial relations in France and the French Empire in the century following the abolition of slavery. Her work has been supported by the Western Society for French History, the French Colonial Historical Society, and the Society for French Historical Studies.
CAROL SHERIFF is professor of history at William & Mary. Her previous scholarship has focused on civilians and soldiers during the American Civil War as well as the history and historical memory of the antebellum North. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “‘Not a brother’s war’: America’s Embattled Textbooks,” which examines controversies arising from portrayals of contested historical events in state history textbooks from the 1860s to the present.
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The Journal of Women’s History editors and editorial staff thankfully acknowledge the generous contributions of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts for the Journal, August 21, 2020–September 1, 2021.
Laura Rosanne Adderley Janet Afary Camron Amin Anais Angelo Leah Astbury Ebru Aykut Gülhan Balsoy Teresa Barnes Simon Kévin Baskouda Shelly Elisheva Baumgarten Lauren Beck Michael Bennett Emilie Bergmann Françoise Blum Lisa Boehm Marie Grace Brown Gabriela Cano Gabriela Carrión Tamar Carroll Susan Carruthers Sueann Caulfield Kristin Celello Choi Chatterjee Laura Cházaro García Leslie Choquette Alicia Colson Karen Cook Bell Annika Culver Sarah Curtis Rachel Delvin Sarah Deutsch Kristina DuRocher Bonnie Effros Carolyn J. Eichner Lerna Ekmekçioğlu Camilo Erlichman María Teresa Fernández Aceves Jake Frederick Karen Garner Carla Gerona Liette Gidlow Judith Giesberg Lori D. Ginzberg Wendy Gonaver Irene González Felicia Gottmann Laura Gowing Aitana Guía David Gutman Francisca de Haan Julie Hardwick Jill Harsin Amy Hay Katie M. Hemphill Burleigh Hendrickson Julia Irwin Amanda Izzo Rachel Jean-Baptiste Emily Johnson Jessica Marie Johnson Dobrochna Kałwa Judith Keene Lisa Kirschenbaum Christopher Knowles Alison Lefkovitz Anne E. Lester Lisa Levenstein Amanda H. Littauer
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