Notes on Contributors

Maartje Abbenhuis is a senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Auckland. She received her PhD in history from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2001.

Penelope Adams Moon presently holds the chair in the history department at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. She received her PhD in history from Arizona State University in 2001. Her publications include “‘Peace on Earth—Peace in Vietnam’: The Catholic Peace Fellowship and Antiwar Witness, 1964—1976,” Journal of Social History, 36, Summer 2003, pp. 1033—1057; and “Loyal Sons and Daughters of God?: American Catholics Debate Catholic Antiwar Protest,” Peace & Change, January 2008, pp. 1—30.

Irene Andersson is a lecturer in history at the University of Malmo. She has studied Swedish women’s networks and collective peace actions during the First World War and in the 1930s. Her PhD thesis (in Swedish, with an English summary) is titled “Women Against War: Actions and Networks for Peace 1914—1940,” Lund, 2001. Among her work is an article on Fredrika Bremer’s invitation to form a Peace Alliance in 1854 and how the Swedish Women’s Movement has used it during the last century and an article on how the Army museum in Stockholm explains violence in their permanent exhibition. Forthcoming is a book on gender and sur­veillance of peace activists by the military’s secret service, 1930—1970, with the working title Idealists or Cryptokommunists: Gender Perspectives on Surveillance of Peace-Workers in Sweden during 1930—1970.

Sara Buttsworth received her PhD from the University of Western Australia in history and women’s studies in 2004.

Gabrielle A. Fortune is an honorary research associate in the Department of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She received her degrees from the University of Auckland, most recently her PhD in 2005. Her research interests include war brides (the subject of her PhD dissertation), war veterans, and the appropriation of war images in popular culture. Together with her colleague, Mara Bebich, Gabrielle has just published a short history of returned New Zealand service­men, titled Citizenship & Remembrance: A History of the 24NZ Infantry Battalion Association. Auckland, 2008.

Karen J. Hall publishes on militarist material culture produced predominantly for a U.S. audience. She is currently a humanities post-doctoral faculty fellow in the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. Karen’s most recent publications reflect her passion for this subject area: “Photos for Access: War Pornography and US Practices of Power,” in Nico Carpenter, ed., Culture, Trauma & Conflict: Cultural studies Perspectives on Contemporary War, Cambridge, 2007; “Consuming Witness: Combat Entertainment and the Training of Citizens,” in Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas, eds., The Image and the Witness, London, 2007; “Shooters to the Left of Us, Shooters to the Right: First Person Arcade Shooter Video Games and the Violence Debate,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 5, supplement, December 2005; “A Soldier’s Body: G.I.

Suellen Murray is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her main research interests are concerned with historical analyses of domestic violence and social policy about which she has published widely, including her book More than Refuge: Changing Responses to Domestic Violence, University of Western Australian Press, 2002. Her involvement in political action around violence against women and later academic work in this area emerged from her participation in the women’s peace movement in the 1980s, a theme to which she returns in her chapter in this book.

Mark A. Potter graduated with a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2005. His thesis, “A Good Soldier, a Good Shot, and a Good Fellow: The Seventy-first New York, Martial Manhood and the Shadows of Civil War, 1850— 1898,” suggested that martial enthusiasm in late-nineteenth-century America may have had a life outside of social upheaval, the crisis of masculinity, and sectional reconciliation. Mark is currently working in research management while applying for postdoctoral funding. His publications include “A Pomp that Cannot be Distinguished from Real War: Gilded Age Martial Display,” in Katherine Ellinghaus, David Goodman and Glenn Moore, eds, Unsettling America: Crisis and Belonging in United States History, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 91—102.

David M. Rosen is professor of anthropology and law at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his JD from Pace University School of Law. He has carried out field research in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Israel, and Palestine. His prime interests are in the relationship between law and culture and in the anthropology of children and childhood. He is the author of Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005. He is currently carrying out research on the war crimes trials in Sierra Leone.

Ismee Tames is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam. Her PhD thesis "War on Our Minds”: War, Identity and Neutrality in Dutch Public Debate, 1914—1918 was published in May 2006 (in Dutch— article in English forthcoming). She is currently working on a new project on “Children of Collaborators in the Netherlands, 1945—1960.”