Contributors
Michelle Arrow is professor of modern history at Macquarie University. She is the author of three books: Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight At Last (2002), Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for history and was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Michelle won the 2014 Multimedia History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards for her radio documentary Public Intimacies: the 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships, and she has held research fellowships at the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia for her research on 1970s Australia. In 2020 she was awarded a Special Research Initiative grant from the Australian Research Council for her current project, a biography of the Australian writer and broadcaster Anne Deveson.
Iris Berger (she/her) is professor emerita of History and Collins Fellow at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her publications include Women in Twentieth-Century Africa (2016), South Africa in World History (2009), African Women: Restoring Women to History, with E. Frances White (1998), Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980 (1982), the award-winning Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period (1982), and numerous articles. She was also a coeditor of Women and Class in Africa (1986) and African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony and Refugee Rights (2015). She has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Lauren Jae Gutterman (she/her/hers) is associate professor of American studies, history, and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage (2020).
Nina Kushner is associate professor of history at Clark University, where she specializes in early modern and eighteenth-century European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on France, women, gender, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century France (2013) and is coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France (2014) and French Histories of Sexuality from the Enlightenment to the Present (2023). Her current projects include a monograph titled "The Rules of Adultery: Sexual Culture in the Old Regime," which is a study of marriage, cheating, and the construction of social identity in Old Regime France. She is coediting the six-volume series A Cultural History of Prostitution in the West (with Dan Orrells, forthcoming) and the Handbook of the History of Sexuality (with Nicole von Germeten, forthcoming) for Bloomsbury Press.
María Martín Gómez is professor of Spanish and Ibero-American philosophy at the University of Salamanca and a research member of the Center for Research and Memory of Spanish Protestantism (CIMPE). She is currently secretary and treasurer of the Society for Medieval Philosophy (SOFIME) and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Frankfurt, Freiburg, Bonn, Vienna, and Riga. Her research focuses on medieval philosophy, the Renaissance, biblical hermeneutics, Protestantism, relations between philosophy and motherhood, and Spanish and Ibero-American philosophy. Her latest published books are La Escuela de Salamanca, fray Luis de León y el problema de la interpretación (The School of Salamanca, fray Luis de León and the problem of interpretation) (2017), Comprender e Interpretar: La recepción de la filosofía hermenéutica en la España democrática (Understanding and interpreting: The reception of hermeneutic philosophy in democratic Spain) (2015), La teoría filosófica de las pasiones y de las virtudes (The philosophical theory of the passions and the virtues) (2013), Filosofía para Después (Philosophy for afterwards) (2014), and Diario de una filósofa embarazada (Diary of a pregnant philosopher) (2021).
Web page: https://diarium.usal.es/mariamargo/
Frances Luttikhuizen, PhD, was a retired lecturer at the University of Barcelona and International coordinator of Centro de Investigación y Memoria del Protestantismo Español (CIMPE), Seville, Spain. Her main fields of interest included the history of translation, linguistic awareness among early navigators, Cervantes's Exemplary Novels, and the Spanish Reformation. She has published the following books: España y la Reforma Protestante (1517–2017) (Spain and the Protestant Reformation) (2017), Underground Protestantism in Sixteenth Century Spain: A Much Ignored Side of Spanish History (2016), and La reforma en España, Italia y Portugal, siglos XVI y XVII (The Reformation in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, 16th and 17th centuries) (2009).
Tamika Nunley is associate professor of history and the Sandler Family Faculty Fellow of American Studies at Cornell University. Along with articles, essays, and reviews, she is the author of At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (2021), which received the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, the Pauli Murray Book Prize, and the Mary Kelley Prize. Her article "Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Courts" received the Letitia Woods Brown prize for best article in African American Women's History and the Anne Braden Prize for best article in Southern Women's History. Nunley recently published The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime and Clemency in Early Virginia (2023).
Mary Louise Roberts is the WARF Distinguished Lucie Aubrac Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her most recent book is Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in World War II (2021). She has written two other books on the European theater of World War II: D-Day through French Eyes (2014) and What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II (2013). What Soldiers Do has appeared in translation in French, Chinese, Japanese, and Czech; it also forms the basis of a French documentary film Les Femmes de la libération produced by Maha Productions, Paris.
Mytheli Sreenivas is professor of history and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (2008), Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India (2021), and multiple articles and book chapters. Her current research investigates transnational histories of reproductive health, rights, and justice.
