Johns Hopkins University Press has featured the latest issue of JHCY on their blog.
The editorial board of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth has approved the appointments of Corinne T. Field and Nicholas Syrett as co-editors of the journal’s book review section.
The recipient of the Grace Abbott Book Award is Ellen Boucher’s, Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967 (Cambridge, 2014).
Daniel Rivers' monograph, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II, is the 2014 Grace Abbott Prize Winner.
Susan Eckelmann, the Graduate Student Representative for SHCY, provides this recap of the executive meeting and ideas for expanding opportunities for graduate students below.
The committee chose Ishita Pande’s “Coming of Age: Law, sex, and Childhood in Late Colonial India,” Gender & History vol. 24, no. 1 (April 2012) to receive the 2013 Best Article award.