Jennifer Robin Terry
This year’s Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, “Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975,” published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide v...
Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question ...
By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different
In 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal existence in an institution.
Mead was close friends with Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst who would...
By Daniel Hatcher, author of Injustice, Inc.: How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor
I’ve been an advocate for impoverished children and adults for over twenty-five years. In my first legal aid job, I represented hundreds of children pulled into the chaotically ...
We’re proud to share that author Maria E. Doerfler has won the 2021 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion for her book, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity. In this interview with Doerfler, we take a dee...