Conference Organizers

Conference Convener
Marianne Novy (English) University of PIttsburgh

English Department

Advisory Committee

Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship

Naomi Cahn (Law), George Washington University
Jill Deans (Honors College), University of Connecticuct
Ellen Herman (History),  University of Oregon
Emily Hipchen (English), University of West Georgia
Carol Singley (English), Rutgers University-Camden

University of Pittsburgh

Faith Adiele (English)
Sherry Anderson (Social Work)
Susan Andrade (English)
David Bartholomae (English)
Kathleen Blee (Sociology and Women’s Studies)
Jean Ferguson Carr (English and Women’s Studies)
Frayda Cohen (Anthropology and Women’s Studies)
Lynn Emanuel (English)
Kathryn Flannery (English and Women’s Studies)
Christina Groark (Child Development)
David Herring (Law)
Jeanne Marie Laskas (English)
Irina Livezeanu (History)
Nancy McCabe (English, University of Pittsburgh/Bradford)
Robert McCall (Child Development)
Jeff Oaks (English)
Lisa Parker (Bioethics and Health Law and Women’s Studies)
Shalini Puri (English)
Tracy Soska (Social Work)
Sabine von Dirke (German)
Rhonda Wasserman (Law)

Others

Sara Dorow (Anthropology), University of Alberta
Diana Marre  (Anthropology), Autonomous University of Barcelona and Institute of Childhood and the Urban World/CIIMU
Judith Schachter (Modell) (Anthropology and History), Carnegie-Mellon
Kristina Straub (English), Carnegie-Mellon