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
Editor, Layla Koch
Koch is working on her PhD in American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her dissertation examines the role, religious status, and enthusiasm of American children in the early U.S. foreign missionary movement, 1810-1865. She has been the editor of Digital Childhoods since October 2024.
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.
Past editors include Alice Sage and Hannah Stamler.
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.