About

Launched in 2024, Digital Childhoods is the official blog of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, whose peer-reviewed Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth is published with Johns Hopkins University Press.

Digital Childhoods is an informal and digital companion to the journal, and publishes behind-the-scenes interviews with Society authors, reviews of relevant works of popular culture, and features on teaching and studying the history of children and youth. For a longer reflection on the mission of Digital Childhoods, see SHCY President Dr Nicholas Syrett’s post on the subject, published on the occasion of the site’s launch.

Editorial Staff

Co-Editor, Alice Sage

Sage is a historian and curator specializing in twentieth-century childhood. Her interest in play and fantasy has led to publications about dreams and fairies, along with exhibitions on doll houses, British animation, rural girlhood, and Beatrix Potter. She received her PhD in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her doctoral work reconstructed the world of the “Juvenile Jollities,” a children’s dance troupe in interwar London.

Co-Editor, Hannah M. Stamler

Stamler received her PhD in History and Interdisciplinary Humanities from Princeton University in 2024. Her dissertation examined the development of children’s culture in late Third Republic France against the backdrop of the twentieth-century “depopulation” crisis. Her academic research has appeared in French Politics, Culture & Society and Film History and her public-facing writing on family, gender, and childhood in modern and contemporary art has been published in Artforum, Art in America, and The Nation, among others.

SHCY Digital Fellow, Will Holub-Moorman

Holub-Moorman is a JD/PhD Candidate at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His dissertation traces how welfare administration intersected with new methods of defining and policing parenthood’s legal obligations in the late-twentieth-century United States. He has been a Digital Fellow at the Society for the History of Children and Youth since 2021.

Contact Us

Do you have editorial questions or suggestions for improving our website usability or accessibility? We welcome your feedback at digitalchildhoods@shcy.org. For more information on writing for Digital Childhoods, refer to the contribute page.