Smith - Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast

Merril D. Smith is an independent scholar, author, and editor of several books, including History of American Cooking (2013), Womens Roles in Eighteenth-Century America (2010), and Encyclopedia of Rape (2004).

Tosin F. Abiodun is a graduate student studying African history at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mary A. Afolabi-Adeolu teaches government and history at Zamani College, Kaduna, Nigeria.

Y. Gavriel Ansara is completing his PhD in psychology at the University of Surrey and is internationally recognized for his health policy work.

Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, performance, and wearable sculpture to explore feminine iconography and identity within popular culture. She is a lecturer at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire.

Israel Berger holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Roehampton in London, England, and is a medical student at the University of Sydney.

Sarah E. Bruno is an English 1 instructor at Lehigh University, where she received her MA in English and her graduate certificate in women, gender, and sexuality studies in May 2013.

Kelly L. Burgess is a licensed and registered dietician and the owner of To Better Health, LLC, a nutrition-counseling private practice in West Deptford and Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Alison J. Carr is an artist and writer. She received her PhD from Sheffield Hallam University in 2013, where she is an associate lecturer. She completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in May 2009 and BA (Hons) in fine art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001.

Matthew Cheeseman, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Sheffield. He can be contacted at http://www.twitter.com/eine and keeps a website at http://www.einekleine.com.

Amber E. Deane, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences with a specialization in medical sociology at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. She is interested in the social construction of health and illness.

Natalie E. Dear has a PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research concentrates on the representation of women in medieval and early modern literatures.

Nora Doyle is a PhD candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Donna J. Drucker is a postdoctoral fellow in the Topologie der Technik Graduiertenkolleg at the Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany.

Jennifer Rachel Dutch graduated from the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, with a PhD in American studies specializing in foodways. Her research focuses on home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century.

Michelle Fitzsimmons received her MA in public history at the University of MissouriKansas City. She specializes in the history of medicine.

Claudia J. Ford is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies and a midwife.

Jennifer D. Grubbs is a PhD candidate in anthropology at American University, Washington, D.C. Her dissertation, titled Queer(ey)ying the Ecoterrorist: Neoliberal Capitalism, Political Repression as Discipline, and the Spectacle of Direct Action, coalesces intersectional research on activism, state violence, and liberation.

Stephanie Laine Hamilton is freelance writer and historical consultant in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada.

Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle, from Mannheim, Germany, is currently visiting professor at Stendhal-Grenoble 3 University, France.

Matthew Hollow is a research associate on the Tipping Points Project in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, UK.

Elizabeth Jenner is a test developer at the Educational Testing Service. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Sara Smits Keeney is an assistant professor of sociology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Rhonda Kronyk is a PhD candidate at McGill University. Her main area of interest is gender and public identity in Restoration London.

Tonya Lambert, MA, is a freelance author and historian living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Fibian Lukalo is a visiting international scholar of educational anthropology at the School for Advanced Research in the Human Experience, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Alina ysak graduated from pedagogy and cultural anthropology studies. She is currently working on a doctorate thesis devoted to multicultural counseling.

Visam Mansur is a professor of English literature at Beykent University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Lorcan McGrane has studied at the University of Ulster, Dublin Institute of Technology, and University of East Anglia (UEA) in the areas of media studies and film and television studies. He has taught courses on Hollywood cinema and television sitcom at UEA, and graphic design theory, cultural theory, and gender studies at Norwich University College of the Arts and Lowestoft College. His current writing projects include Superheroic Bodies: The Corporealities of Contemporary Film Superheroes.

Tariqah Nuriddin is an assistant professor of sociology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Her broader research focuses on social inequality, mental health, coping behavior, and the health of vulnerable populations. Currently, she is working on a qualitative exploration of past health practices and home remedies among formerly enslaved African Americans.

Erin Pappas is a Chicago-based writer and librarian.

Lori L. Parks, PhD, is currently teaching art history as an adjunct professor at Miami University, Ohio. Her research interests focus on issues pertaining to the body and its representation in art, visual culture, and theory through an interdisciplinary approach.

Kaitlyn Regehr is a television presenter and choreographer whose work examines the history of womens sexuality and its representation in performance. She is currently writing a PhD at Kings College London.

Saul M. Rodriguez is a social scientist and independent researcher.

Laura Schechter received her PhD from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Cristina Lucia Stasia received her PhD in English from Syracuse University and has published on postfeminism, female action cinema, and the bisexual star text of Angelina Jolie.

Aneta Stepien is Thomas Brown Assistant Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is coordinator of Polish studies and teaches various modules on Eastern and Central European history, culture, and literature.

Gayle Sulik, author of Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Womens Health, is a medical sociologist affiliated with the University at Albany (State University of New York) Department of Womens Studies and founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium.

Thrse Taylor teaches modern history and media studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is the author of numerous articles and also a scholarly biography, Bernadette of Lourdes: Her Life, Her Death and Her Visions (London Continuum Press, 2003).

Victoria Team is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Mother and Child Health Research Centre, LaTrobe University, Australia.

Adriana Teodorescu is a PhD researcher at 1 December 1918 University in Alba Iulia, Romania.

Chris Vanderwees is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Victoria Williams, PhD, is an independent scholar researching British folklore and European fairy tale, British and American film (particularly the female Gothic films of the 1940s and the work of Alfred Hitchcock), and Victorian art and literature.