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E. Wayne Carp <carpw@plu.edu> Pacific Lutheran University History of adoption. Currently writing a biography of Jean Paton, the "mother" of the adoption reights movement. |
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| Address: | Department of History Tacoma, Washington 98447-0003 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 253.759.4501 |
| Secondary Phone: | 253.535.7345 |
| Fax Number: | 253.761.8551 |
| Web Page: | http://www.plu.edu/~carpw |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Childhood Advisory Board Member for H-Review |
| Interests: | Childhood and Education |
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Bio: CURRENT POSITION" Benson Family Chair in History EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1981 M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1973 A.B. University of California, Berkeley, cum laude, 1972 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58 (University Press of Kansas, 2004). Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives, Ed. by E. Wayne Carp (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998). ARTICLES (recent): “History of Child Welfare Policy in the United States” in The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History (Thousand Oaks, CA, 2004). "Adoption, Blood Kinship, Stigma, and the Adoption Reform Movement: A Historical Perspective," Review Essay, Law and Society Review, 36:2 (2002): 433-461. "When In Doubt, Count: World War II as a Watershed in the History of Adoption" co-authored with Anna Leon-Guerrero in Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives, ed. E. Wayne Carp (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. CONFERENCES (recent) Chair and Commentator, “Unequal Childhoods: Orphans in Canadian and U.S. History,” Society for the History of Children and Youth, Biennial Meeting, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, Aug. 4-7, 2005. Commentator, “Defining and Redefining State Protection of Children in the Twentieth-Century U.S. Law,” American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Oct. 28-30, 2004. Chair: “How Revolutionary Has the History of Child Adoption Been?” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, Mar. 25-28, 2004. |
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