Contributors

Raphaëlle Branche

is a professor of modern and contemporary history at Paris Nanterre University and at the Institut des sciences sociales du politique. Her research focuses on violence in colonial settings and more specifically in Algeria. Her books include La torture et l’armée pendant la guerre d’Algérie, 1954–1962 (2001); L’embuscade de Palestro, Algérie 1956 (2010); Rape in Wartime, edited with Fabrice Virgili et al. (2012); and Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad, edited with Xavier Bougarel and Cloé Drieu (2017). Her most recent publication focuses on family memories of the Algerian War in France: Qu’as-tu fait en Algérie, papa? Enquête sur un silence familial (2020).

D’Ann Campbell

is a professor of history at Culver Stockton College and previously held posts at the US Coast Guard Academy and the US Military Academy. For 2016–18, Campbell was the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Military History at the US Air Force Academy. Her research on women and the Second World War includes studies of US servicewomen during the war years and a comparative study of women in combat roles in four countries. Her publications include “Servicewomen of World War II,” Armed Forces and Society 16, no. 2 (1990); and “Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union,” The Journal of Military History 57, no. 2 (1993).

Thomas Cardoza

is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities of the Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His research interests are in the fields of military history, childhood studies, women’s history, and Napoleonic studies. His publications include Intrepid Women: Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army (2010); The American Experiment (2015); A Boy Soldier in Napoleon’s Army: The Military Life of Jacques Chevillet (2017); and numerous articles on women and children in French history.

Elizabeth Colwill

is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. She specializes in the cultural histories of gender, slavery, and revolution in the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Francophone Caribbean. Her recent publications include “Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue,” in Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1750–1850, edited by Karen Hagemann et al. (2010); “Gendering the June Days: Race, Masculinity, and Slave Emancipation in Saint Domingue,” Journal of Haitian Studies 15, no. 1/2 (2009); and “Fêtes de l’hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony and Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793,” in The World of the Haitian Revolution, edited by David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering (2009).

Catherine Davies

is a professor of Hispanic and Latin American studies and director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish/Spanish American literature and cultural history. Recent research has focused on gender studies and the independence wars in Spanish America. Her publications include Latin American Women’s Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis, edited with Anny Brooksbank Jones (1996); A Place in the Sun? Women’s Writing in Twentieth-Century Cuba (1997); with Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen, South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text (2006); and “Gendered Interpretations of Independence Poetry: Mexico and Peru 1820–1822,” in Power, Place and Representation: Contested Sites of Dependence and Independence in Latin America, edited by Bill Richardson and Lorraine Kelly (2017).

Stefan Dudink

teaches gender studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main field of research is the history of gender and sexuality in modern Western political and military cultures, with a focus on the Netherlands. His publications include a monograph on Dutch, late nineteenth-century liberalism, Deugdzaam Liberalisme: Sociaal-Liberalisme in Nederland, 1870–1901 (1997); and the volumes Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited with Karen Hagemann and John Tosh (2004); Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, edited with Karen Hagemann and Anna Clark (2007); and “Low Countries Histories of Masculinity,” a special issue of BMGN—Low Countries Historical Review 127, no. 1 (2012).

Annegret Fauser

is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music and adjunct professor in women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina. Her research focuses on music and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular that of France and the United States. Her authored books include Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen 1870 und 1920 (1994); Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair (2005); Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II (2013); The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Writings (2015); and Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (2017). In addition, she has published several edited books, most recently with Mark Everist, Stage Music and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830–1914 (2009); and with Michael A. Figueroa, Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma (2020).

Alan Forrest

is a professor of modern history at the University of York (Emeritus). He has published widely on modern French history, especially on the French Revolution and empire and on the history of war. Authored recent books include The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009); Napoleon (2011); Waterloo (2015); and The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2020). Among the volumes he has published are Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790–1820, edited with Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall (2009); War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, edited with Étienne François and Karen Hagemann (2012); and The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History, edited with Matthias Middell (2015).

Susan R. Grayzel

is a professor of history at Utah State University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century British and European history with a special focus on the history of war and society, especially gender, women, and war. Her books include Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999); Women and the First World War (2002); Gender, Labor, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain, coedited with Philippa Levine (2009); At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (2012); and Gender and the Great War, edited with Tammy M. Proctor (2017).

Amy S. Greenberg

is the George Winfree Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University. She is a historian of antebellum America with a particular interest in the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world in the decades before the Civil War. She has published widely on gender and/or the territorial expansionism of the nineteenth-century United States. Her books include Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005); Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents (2012); A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 US Invasion of Mexico (2012); and, most recently, Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (2019).

Karen Hagemann

is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and an adjunct professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published widely in modern German, European, and transatlantic history and gender history. Her most recent monograph is Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture and Memory (2015; German, 2019). Her volumes include Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany (2002); Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh (2004); Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830, edited with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall (2010); Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989, edited with Sonya Michel (2014); and Gendering Post–1945 German History: Entanglements, edited with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener (2019).

Mischa Honeck

is a professor of North American and British History at the University of Kassel. His main research interests are the histories of race, ethnicity, gender, youth, and childhood in the United States and the transatlantic world. His edited volumes include: Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250–1914 edited with Martin Klimke and Anne Kuhlmann (2013); and War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars edited with James Marten (2019). He is the author of We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (2011); and Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy (2018).

Kimberly Jensen

is a professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University. Her research addresses questions of women, citizenship, and civil liberties in the United States in the period of the First World War and its aftermath, the history of women and medicine, and women’s transnational activism. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (2008); and Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (2012). With Erika K. Kuhlman, she coedited the anthology Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (2010). In addition, she recently published “Gender and Citizenship,” in Gender and the Great War, edited by Tammy Proctor and Susan Grayzel (2017).

Thomas Kühne

is the director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, where he holds the Strassler Chair in Holocaust History. His research focuses on Nazi perpetrators and bystanders, on military cultures, and more broadly on the construction of collective identity through mass violence. His recent books include Belonging and Genocide: Hitler’s Community, 1918–1945 (2010/2013); The Holocaust and Local History, edited with Tom Lawson (2011); Globalizing Beauty: Body Aesthetics in the 20th Century, edited with Hartmut Berghoff (2013); and The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (2017).

Marilyn Lake

is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely on gender, war, empire, nationalism, feminism, and race. Her publications include Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism (1999); Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, edited with Ann Curthoys (2005); Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century, edited with Joy Damousi (2005); and most recently Drawing the Global Color Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (2008), coauthored with Henry Reynolds; What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarization of Australian History (2010); and Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (2019).

Regina Mühlhäuser

is a senior researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture and a Co-Coordinator of the International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’. Her research focuses on violence, sexuality and gender in times of armed conflict, in particular during World War II in Europe and Asia. Her publications include Krieg und Geschlecht: Sexuelle Gewalt im Krieg und Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern, edited with Insa Eschebach (2008); “Between ‘Racial Awareness’ and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942–1945,” in Brutality and Desire, edited by Dagmar Herzog (2009); In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, edited with Gaby Zipfel and Kirsten Campbell (2019); and Sex and the Nazi Soldier: Violent, Commercial and Consensual Contacts during the War in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945 (2020).

Robert A. Nye

is the Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of the Humanities and professor of history emeritus at Oregon State University. His main research interest is nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and French intellectual and cultural history. His several publications include the monographs Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline (1984); Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (1993); and Sexuality: An Oxford Reader (1999). He coedited with Erika Milam the 2015 volume of Osiris titled Scientific Masculinities and has published several scholarly articles and chapters.

Jean H. Quataert

is the State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Research Professor of History (Emerita) at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is a trained historian of German history. More recently, she has turned to new research agendas that include human rights and transnational and global history. Her books include Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813–1916 (2001); The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century (2006); Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiographies, edited with Karen Hagemann (2008); Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (2009); and most recently “A New Look at International Law: Gendering the Practices of Humanitarian Medicine in Europe’s ‘Small Wars,’ 1879–1907,” Human Rights Quarterly 40 (2018).

Sonya O. Rose

is a professor emerita and former Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professor of History, Sociology, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her main field of research is modern Britain, gender and labor history, the histories of national identity, empire and citizenship, and the history of sexuality. Her publications include Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England (1992); Gender and Class in Modern Europe, edited with Laura L. Frader (1996); Gender, Citizenship and Subjectivities, edited with Kathleen Canning (2002); Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939–1945 (2003); At Home with the Empire, edited with Catherine Hall (2006); and What Is Gender History? (2010).

Glenda Sluga

is a professor of international history at the University of Sydney and, since the fall 2019, a professor of international history and capitalism at the European University Institute in Florence. She has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, internationalism, the history of European nationalisms, sovereignty, identity, immigration, and gender history. In 2006, she was appointed a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. Her books include, with Barbara Caine, Gendering European History: 1780–1920 (2000); The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border (2001); The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870–1919 (2006); Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013); Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500, edited with Carolyn James (2016); and Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History, edited with Patricia Clavin (2017).

Richard Smith

is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written widely on the experience of West Indian troops in both world wars and the race and gender implications of military service in comparative context. His publications include the monograph Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness (2004); and several articles and book chapters, including, most recently, “The Multicultural First World War: Memories of the West Indian Contribution in Contemporary Britain,” Journal of European Studies 45, no. 4, (2015); and “Loss and Longing: Emotional Responses to West Indian Soldiers during the First World War,” in The British Empire and The First World War, edited by Ashley Jackson (2017).

Sandra Whitworth

is a professor of political science and is also appointed to the graduate program in gender, feminism, and women’s studies at York University in Toronto. She served for six years as home-base editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her publications include Feminism and International Relations (1994); Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (2004); and International Relations, with Joshua Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse (2013). She has written various articles and book chapters on issues such as gender in Canadian foreign policy and human rights and was invited (with coauthor Dyan Mazurana) to produce the 2002 UN Secretary-General Study Women, Peace and Security.

Kristen P. Williams

is a professor of political science at Clark University. Her research interests are in the field of international relations, focusing on nationalism, ethnic conflict, gender, and international relations theory. Her publications include Despite Nationalist Conflicts: Theory and Practice of Maintaining World Peace (2001); with Neal G. Jesse, Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies (2005) and Ethnic Conflict: A Systematic Approach to Cases of Conflict (2011); and with Joyce P. Kaufman, Women, the State, and War: A Comparative Perspective on Citizenship and Nationalism (2007), Women and War: Gender Identity and Activism in Times of Conflict (2010), and Women at War, Women Building Peace: Challenging Gender Norms (2013). She is coeditor, with Steven E. Lobell and Neal G. Jesse, of Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge (2012), and with Joyce P. Kaufman, Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation: Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future (2017).

Peter H. Wilson

is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a university academic fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford. His work examines the political, social, military, and cultural history of German-speaking central Europe across the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. He is currently principal investigator of a five-year research project on the “European Fiscal-Military System 1530–1870” funded by the European Research Council 2018–23. His many books include Absolutism in Central Europe (2000); From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558–1806 (2004); as editor, A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (2008); Europe’s Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War (2009), which was the winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History; The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook (2010); The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History (2016); and Lützen (2018).

Angela Woollacott

is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. Her research has been in the fields of gender and war, modern British and British Empire history, Australian history, whiteness, gender and modernity, settler colonialism, and transnational biography. Her monographs include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); Gender and Empire (2006); Race and the Modern Exotic: Three “Australian” Women on Global Display (2011); Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (2015); and Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia (2019). Her most recent volumes include Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, edited with Desley Deacon and Penny Russell (2008); and Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700–present, edited with Desley Deacon and Penny Russell (2010).

Serena Zabin

is a professor of history and the director of American studies at Carleton College. Her work focuses on the American colonies as part of the eighteenth-century British Empire. Her first monograph is Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (2009). She is also the author of The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings (2004), a volume intended for the undergraduate classroom; and The Boston Massacre: An Intimate History (2020).

Dubravka Zarkov

is an associate professor of gender, conflict, and development at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her main fields of research are gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the context of war and violence, as well as their media representations. She authored The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (2007); and Gender, Conflict, Development (2008); and coedited with Cynthia Cockburn, The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping (2002). Most recently, she published “From Women and War to Gender and Conflict? Feminist Trajectories,” in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin et al. (2018).