Editors
Gayle Gullett is an associate professor of history and affiliate of the women's studies program at Arizona State University. Her publications include Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911 (University of Illinois, 2000) and several articles that examine how women have acquired and used political power in progressive era United States, especially in the American West. She is currently working on the manuscript, "Constructing Citizenship: A California Case Study of Progressive Era Activism, 1912-1924," that asks how enfranchised California women used partisan politics to create new notions of women's citizenship, patriotism, and nationalism. She received her PhD in American history at the University of California, Riverside.
Susan E. Gray is associate professor of history and an affiliate in the Women's Studies Program at Arizona State University . Her major publications include The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier and, as co-editor with Andrew Cayton, The American Midwest: Essays in Regional History. Gray is at present finishing a multigenerational history of a mixed race family, based on their diaries, memoirs, and other writings, as well as interviews with descendants, entitled "Lines of Descent: Family Stories from the North Country." Gray received her Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Chicago. She has held fellowships from the NEH and the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University.
Associate Editor
Catherine O’Donnell is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University. Her publications include Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Creating Forums of Citizenship (UNC Press, 2008) and articles exploring literature, politics, and gender in early America. She is currently at work on a biography of Elizabeth Seton that explores the role of women in shaping early national Catholicism. O'Donnell received her PhD from the University of Michigan and was an NEH fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary.
Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor and Chair of the Women’s Studies Program and a professor of History, Black Studies, and Law and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. An interdisciplinary historian, she specializes in gender, race, work, and the welfare state, with particular interest in the home as a workplace. President of the board of trustees of The Journal of Women’s History, she also serves on the advisory board of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and on numerous editorial boards, including Social Politics and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. Locally she is on the Board of Directors of CAUSE: Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy and, nationally, she is part of the Women’s Committee of 100 for Welfare Justice.
Among her books are Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (winner of the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History), Voices of Women Historians, coedited with Nupur Chaudhuri, and Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More, coedited with Elisabeth Prugl. With S.J. Kleinberg and Vicki Ruiz, she has edited The Practice of U.S. Women’s History: Narratives, Dialogues, and Intersections (Rutgers, 2007). She has published in American Quarterly, Journal of American History, Signs, LABOR, International Labor and Working Class History, Social Politics, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Policy History, Politics and Society, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and elsewhere. Her current book project with Jennifer Klein of Yale, Caring for America: How Home Health Workers Became the New Face of Labor (under contract, Oxford University Press), gives health aides, personal attendants, and in-home supportive service workers a history, intervening in debates over carework, racialization, and the welfare state. She has written policy reports on the feminization of poverty, the wages of care, and welfare reform. Over the years, her nonacademic writings have appeared in The Nation, the LA Times, New Labor Forum, and the Washington Post.
Managing Editor
Victoria Hay, ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Editorial Office
Board of Consulting Editors
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Lourdes Argüelles, Claremont Graduate School
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Barbara A. Babcock, English/Cultural Studies, University of Arizona
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Mary Clearman Blue, English, University of Idaho
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Michelle Cliff, Writer
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Stephanie Coontz, History, The Evergreen State College
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Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, Literature, Arizona State University
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Sarah Elbert, History, SUNY, Binghamton
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Kathy E. Ferguson, Political Science/Women's Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Harmony Hammond, Artist
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Inés Hernández-Avila, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
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Maria Herrera-Sobek, Chicana/Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Elizabeth Jameson, History, University of Calgary
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Jennie Joe, Anthropology, University of Arizona
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Linda Lacey, City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina
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Louise Lamphere, Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Women's Studies, University of Arizona
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Valerie Matsumoto, History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Paula McClain, Political Science, Duke University
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Peggy Pascoe, History, University of Oregon
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Shane Phelan, Political Science, University of New Mexico
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Vicki L. Ruiz, History, University of California, Irving
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Karen Brodkin Sacks, Women's Studies/Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Gail Tremblay, Expressive Arts, The Evergreen State College
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Karen J. Warren, Philosophy, Macalester College
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Traise Yamamoto, English, University of California, Riverside
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Editorial Collective, Arizona State University
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Cordelia Candelaria, Chicana/o Studies
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Julie Codell, Art History
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Betsy Fahlman, Art History
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Mary Margaret Fonow, Women's Studies
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Karen Leong, Women's Studies
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Jackie Martinez, Communication
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Angelita Reyes, African American Studies
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Seline Szkupinski-Quiroga, Chicana/o Studies
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Laura Tohe, English
Board of Frontiers, Inc.
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Susan Armitage, Chair, Washington State University
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Cordelia Candelaria, Arizona State University
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Gayle Gullett, Arizona State University
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Inés Hernández-Avila, University of California, Davis
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Elizabeth Jameson, University of Calgary
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Nancy Mann, University of Colorado
Staff
Emily Lewis, Editorial Assistant, is a graduate student in Early American and Women’s History at Arizona State University. She is particularly interested in heroicized representations of women and military wives, as well as nineteenth century military family culture.
Kim Engel, CLAS Journals Editorial Assistant, is a graduate student in public history at Arizona State University. Her interests include archival theory and processing, built environment histories, and the history of publishing.