About Us
The SHCY was founded in 2001 to promote the history of children and youth. The organization:
(1) supports research about childhood, youth cultures, and the experience of young people across diverse times and places;
(2) fosters study across disciplinary and methodological boundaries;
(3) provides venues for scholars to communicate with one another; and
(4) promotes excellence in scholarship.
Membership is open to all individuals as well as to cultural and educational institutions.
President
Bengt Sandin, 2011-2013
VP-President Elect
James Marten, 2011-2013
Secretary-Treasurer (appointed)
Kriste Lindenmeyer, 2011- Present
H-Net Liaison (appointed)
Kriste Lindenmeyer, 2001-Present
Executive Committee At-Large Members
2009-2013
Ning de Coninck-Smith
Patrizia Guarnieri
Luke Springman
2011-2015
Caroline Cox
Michael Grossberg
Colin Heywood
Rebecca de Schweinitz
Graduate Student Members
Julie Stein, 2009-2013
Publications Committee (non-term)
2005: Jon Pahl, Kathleen Jones, Laura Lovett, Michael Grossberg, James Marten
President
Steven Mintz, 2009-2011
Paula S. Fass, 2007-2009
Kriste Lindenmeyer, 2005-2007
Joseph Hawes, 2002-2005
Ray Hines, 2001-2002
VP-President Elect
Bengt Sandin, 2009-2011
Steven Mintz, 2007-2009
Paula S. Fass, 2005-2007
Kriste Lindenmeyer, 2003-2005
Joseph Hawes, 2001-2002
Secretary-Treasurer (appointed)
James Marten, 2001-2011
Executive Committee At-Large Members
2007-2011
Howard Chudacoff
Mona Gleason
Maritza Maymi-Hernandez
Patrick Ryan
2005-2009
Rachel Hope Cleves
Julia Grant
Bengt Sandin
2003-2007
Harvey Graff
Sean Martin
2001-2005
Joe Austin
Leslie Paris
Kathleen Jones
2001-2003
Miriam Forman-Brunell
Peter Bardaglio
Graduate Student Members
Jessica Nelson, 2005-2009
Program Committee
2011 (New York): Bengt Sandin (chair), Ning de Coninck-Smith, Colin Heywood, Mona Gleason, Nara Milanich, Michael Grossberg
2009 (Berkeley): Steve Mintz (chair), Nina Christensen, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Audra Diptee, Maritza Maymi-Hernandez, Nara Milanich, Stefan Tanaka
2007 (Norrköping): Bengt Sandin (chair), Judith Lind, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Patrick Ryan
2005 (Milwaukee): Julia Grant (chair), Kathy Alaimo, Hamilton Cravens, Crista Deluzio, Ilana Nash, and Janet McShane Galley
2003 (Baltimore): Paula Fass (chair), Leslie Paris, and Patrick Ryan
2001 (Milwaukee): James Marten (chair), Miriam Forman-Brunell, …
Nominating Committee
2011: Paula Fass (chair), Julia Grant, Luke Springman
2009: Kris Lindenmeyer (chair), Adriana Benzaquin, Joan Cashin, Gary Cross, Melissa Klapper,
Diana Selig
2007: Michael Grossberg, (chair), Rachel Hope Cleves, Luke Springman
2005: Steven Mintz (chair)
2003: Peter Bardaglio (chair), Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Jeanine Graham, Catherine Gavin Loss
The Grace Abbott Book Prize
2011: Nara B. Milanich, Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 (Duke University Press, 2009)
2009: Catriona Kelly, Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991 (Yale University Press, 2007)
2007: Julia L. Mickenberg, Learning from the Left: Children‚s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Best Article Prize
2011: Aaron L. Alcorn
“Flying into Modernity: Model Airplanes, Consumer Culture, and the Making of Modern Boyhood in the Early Twentieth Century,” History and Technology (June 2009)
2009: Susan J. Pearson
“Infantile Specimens: Showing Babies in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Social History (December 2008)
2007: Tamara Myers
“Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (October 2005)
2005: Timothy Gilfoyle, “Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900″ Journal of Social History (2004)
2003: Mona Gleason
“Disciplining the Student Body: Schooling and the Construction of Canadian Children’s Bodies, 1930-1960,” History of Education Quarterly (2001)
Article I
The name of the organization is the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY).
Article II
Section 1. Membership in the Society for the History of Children and Youth is open to all scholars and graduate students who study the lives of children and youth in the past.
Section 2. Membership dues and terms shall be established by the Executive Committee. Dates of membership will run for a calendar year. Only members whose dues are up to date will be allowed to vote in any Society election or to participate at Society conferences. Members are responsible for informing the secretary-treasurer of changes in their email or ground mail addresses.
Article III
The Society for the History of Children and Youth convenes regularly at locations chosen by the Executive Committee in conjunction with a Program Committee appointed by the President.
Article IV
Section 1. The officers of the Society for the History of Children and Youth are: President, Vice-President/President-Elect, Liaison to H-Net, and Secretary-Treasurer. The officers shall be members of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Section 2: The Executive Committee will govern the organization. Voting members of the Executive Committee include the President, Vice-President/President Elect, immediate past-president and eight at-large members of the Society. At least one member of the executive committee must be a graduate student at the time of election. No more than three at large members of the executive committee (not including the graduate student representative) can reside in the same country during any two-year period.
The Secretary-Treasurer and Liaison to H-Net will serve as non-voting members of the Executive Committee. The President and President-Elect will serve two-year terms. At-large members of the Executive Committee will serve four years terms. The Secretary-Treasurer and Liaison to H-Net shall serve at the pleasure of the Executive Committee. In the event of an unexpired term, the President in consultation with the Executive Committee is empowered to appoint a member of the society to complete the term.
Section 3: Elections for President, Vice-President/President Elect, and at-large members of the Executive Committee will be elected in odd numbered years. Elections for four positions on the Executive Committee will be held every four years beginning in 2001; elections for the other four positions will be held every four years beginning in 2003. Elections will be held electronically prior to the biennial conference. Six months prior to an election, the President will appoint a Nominating Committee, which will solicit nominations and applications from the general membership. The Nominating Committee will select at least one candidate for Vice-President/President Elect and no fewer than one candidate for each at large position on the Executive Committee. The names and brief biographies of the candidates will be emailed to members no later than one-month prior to the deadline for voting in the election. The nominating committee must ensure that each candidate has agreed to serve if elected. New officers will be announced via email. Newly elected officers assume their duties at the conference following the election.
Section 4: The Executive Committee convenes at a time convenient to all Executive Committee members. They may also “meet” at the President’s request via conference call or email. A majority of the Executive Committee must be in attendance to constitute a quorum. Duties of the Executive Committee generally include routine governance of the Organization and such specific assignments as assisting with the preparation of the agenda for the annual meeting and naming the Secretary-Treasurer and members of the Executive Committee as terms expire or vacancies occur.
Section 5: The professional residence of the Secretary-Treasurer determines the headquarters of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. A prospective Secretary-Treasurer must submit a letter signed by the candidate and by his or her appropriate supervisor demonstrating the commitment and support of the host institution or department and his or her personal commitment to provide an office as well as filing, stenographic, and computer services. It is the responsibility of the Secretary-Treasurer to maintain membership files, correspondence files, take and distribute minutes of Executive Committee meetings, maintain a Society web site, and maintain and submit an biennial report on Society finances.
Section 6: Duties of the President include but are not limited to appointment of committees, preparation of the agenda for the Executive Committee meeting, and conducting the Executive Council meeting and the annual business meeting of the SHCY. The President, with the Executive Council serving in an advisory capacity, acts as official spokesperson of the SHCY.
Section 7: Duties of the Vice-President/President Elect include but are not limited to planning the business meetings in cooperation with the President and serving on the program and any other committees appointed by the President. The Vice-President/President Elect will also serve as Acting President if the President is unable to perform his or her duties.
Article V
Amendments to this document must be approved by the Membership. They may be initiated by a simple majority of the Executive Committee or a petition from one-half of the Membership. Approval requires support of two-thirds of the Membership, in assembly or by correspondence, who cast votes.
Article VI
This document becomes effective if approved by the Executive Committee and by the membership at the 2001 meeting in Milwaukee, or by some other procedure to be determined by the Executive Committee. Implementation of provisions herein will commence immediately upon ratification.
Ratified in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 28, 2001.
Amended in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 28, 2003.
Amended in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, August 6, 2005
Amended in Norrköping, Sweden, June 2007.
Signed by James Marten
Secretary-Treasurer, SHCY
March 10, 2008
Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, Dean
SHCY Secretary-Treasurer
FAS, Armitage Hall, Room 379
311 North 5th Street
Rutgers University—Camden
Camden, NJ 08102-1405
Email: info@shcyhome.org
