This week, Catherine Gay, a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, discusses the history of the 'Australian Girl.'
This week, Krysta Beam, a PhD Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses the history of Protestant Mission work in Latin America.
We have a special feature this week. Graduate students Edcel Javier Cintron Gonzalez (Illinois State University) and Nicola Robertson (University of Strathclyde) talk with Dr. Pat Ryan (King's University College) about strategies for navigating a pandemic while managing your academic goals and responsibilities.
Learn about the work of Cecilie Bjerre, a Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Southern Denmark. She discusses the case files of of out-of-home placements of children in Denmark form 1905-1975.
Raechel A. Beyer is a PhD candidate and Scholar in the Hagley Program in the History of Capitalism, Technology, and Culture at the University of Delaware. Read her reflection on the roots and influences of the Future Farmers of America.
Join us as we review A Year of Students: a look back at the students we featured in 2019, Day 2 of A Year in a Week.
Tugce Kayaal, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, is writing her dissertation on war orphans and youth sexuality in the late Ottoman Empire (1912-23) and working on her article on the medical and moral discourses on masturbation in adolescence in the early twentieth-century Ottoman advice manuals.
Yukako Otori, from the University of Harvard's History Department, topically studies how the documentary surveillance of the U.S. border and the international standardization of travel documents affected child migration to the United States.
Leanna Duncan, a PhD candidate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses the history the experiences of "crippled children" from 1860-1890. Watch her video, here.
The transcript and image description for Leanna Duncan's featured student video, "Three Sources: A Reverse Chronology of the Crippled Child."
Edgar Liao, a Canadian Vanier Graduate Scholar in the History Department at British Columbia University. You can watch his interview, here.
Peter Skagius from the Department of Childhood Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
The first of our inaugural Featured Students series is Katherine S. Cartwright from the College of William and Mary. Please also enjoy watching her interview, here.